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'Has anyone showed this to Trump?' MAGA ally tries to blow up president's big meeting

As Donald Trump was meeting with leaders of Qatar aboard Air Force One, one of the president's key allies was trying to inject new information that would blow it up.

Trump has consistently been seen trying to bring Qatar closer, especially as the nation served as an intermediary in the discussions between Israel and Hamas. Trump referred to Qatar as a "great ally," but MAGA influencers have criticized the arrangement.

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‘Republicans love voter suppression!’ Dem strategist rips GOP over new ‘intimidation' plan

Democratic strategist Michael Hardaway railed into the Trump administration Saturday over its plan to deploy Justice Department officials to monitor elections in California and New Jersey, calling it blatant “voter intimidation.”

“To my view, this voter suppression is problematic,” Hardaway said, appearing on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports.”

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'Dirty tricks': Republican in hot water for highlighting 'endorsement' that never happened

On Tuesday, November 4, a wide variety of elections will be held in the United States —from gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey to a mayoral race in New York City to three Pennsylvania State Supreme Court elections to a Philadelphia district attorney race. GOP and Democratic strategists will be paying close attention to the outcomes, looking for signs of what could lie ahead in the 2026 midterms.

In Geneva in Upstate New York, Republican Paul F. D'Amico and Democrat Ben Gummoe are competing in a Geneva City Council race. And he is now, according to the Finger Lakes Times (FLT), facing a controversy over an endorsement that never happened.

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‘We’ve put the blindfolds on’: Economist warns of dire economic path under Trump

Australian economist Justin Wolfers issued a dire warning Saturday on the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, equating the administration’s freeze on releasing key economic data to steering a ship through fog wearing “blindfolds.”

“It becomes very hard to know how to steer the ship when you don't have a lot of data,” Wolfers said, appearing on MSNBC’s “Velshi.”

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'Destruction is precisely the point': Writer explains Trump's White House demolition

Adam Gopnik tells the New Yorker that Trump destroying the White House is a performance display broadcasting his unbroken power over the presidency.

“After months marked by corruption, violence, and the open perversion of law, to gasp in outrage at the loss of a few tons of masonry and mortar might seem oddly misjudged,” said Gopnik. “And yet it isn’t. We are creatures of symbols, and our architecture tells us who we are.”

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‘At least the rich got their tax cuts!’ GOP fiscal hawks mocked as debt hits record high

As the national debt hit a record $38 trillion this week – rising by $1 trillion faster than ever outside the pandemic – many Republican lawmakers who once decried spending stayed silent, something the progressive news outlet The Tennessee Holler promptly mocked them over.

“At least the rich got their tax cuts, right Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)? With Inequality at gilded age levels,” the outlet wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.

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'This will lead America into a violent moment': Bannon 2028 threat bashed by conservative

Conservative gadfly Steve Bannon’s suggestion that Donald Trump will not be departing the Oval Office at the end of his second term should not be taken as as “trolling” but as a statement of fact.

That is the opinion of former Republican Party campaign advisor Rick Wilson, who wrote on Friday that Bannon's comments to The Economist are aimed at paving the way to normalize the idea that the president and his people don’t feel constrained by the Constitution and no one should believe that they will and should accept it.

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Anonymous donor behind $130M troop payments revealed amid questions over legality

The identity of the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the Trump administration to pay troops amid the ongoing government shutdown has been revealed to be reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, a donation that, according to a report from The New York Times, would likely violate federal law.

Mellon has made significant contributions over the years to Trump’s campaigns, donating $50 million last year to Trump’s super PAC, just one day after the president was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The previous year, Mellon donated $50 million between both Trump and then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who since went on to be tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Majority of GOP voters worried about surging health care costs amid shutdown fight: report

Twenty-four days into the second-longest government shutdown in US history, yet another poll revealed a rising majority of voters across the political spectrum are concerned about skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

Data for Progress and Groundwork Collaborative surveyed 1,215 likely voters nationwide on Wednesday and Thursday. Results released Friday show that 75% of likely voters—including 83% of Democrats, 72% of Independents, and 69% of Republicans—are concerned about premiums soaring. That is an increase from 72% of respondents who expressed concern last week.

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‘Should have taken the hint!’ White House fumes as Kamala Harris teases third run

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made her “strongest suggestion to date” that she was considering a third run for the White House in an interview with BBC published Saturday, sparking an attack from the White House over her failed past attempts to win the presidency.

Harris was asked by BBC if she would make another bid for president following her past two attempts, to which she said “possibly,” BBC reported. She also noted that her grandnieces would love to see a female president “in their lifetime, for sure.”

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Leaked document reveals Vought's shutdown layoff demands are being ignored

A plan by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to shed more federal workers by using the government shutdown as cover is falling apart as department heads are ignoring his proposed cuts.


According to a report from Politico, a leaked document reveals that Vought, who has made it his life’s mission to pare down government functions to a bare minimum, pressed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to do a mass layoff with a target of close to 8,000 jobs eliminated and they have yet to come close.

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This deep-red state will suffer the most from callous new MAGA policy: report

After almost a month, the partial shutdown of the United States' federal government drags on. And the issue that, more than anything else, is fueling the standoff between GOP and Democratic lawmakers is subsidies for the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) and many other Democrats are warning that unless subsides for the ACA exchanges on healthcare.gov are funded, millions of Americans won't be able to afford health insurance in 2026.

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Cattle rancher levels 'delusional' Trump over beef price attack

Donald Trump was called out on MSNBC on Saturday morning for his attack on America’s cattle ranchers with one firing back that he has no idea what he is talking about.


Brought on by the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Craig Bieber, the vice president of the South Dakota Cattleman’s Beef Association, was asked about a post the president wrote on Truth Social.

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