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House conservatives race to codify Trump border policies before midterms
President Trump may have slammed the brakes on the chaos at the southern border, but House conservatives say the real fight is just beginning. A group of Republican hardliners is pressing GOP leadership to move quickly on legislation that would write Trump’s border...
‘Give me a break…Bye!’ AG Ellison storms off when grilled on Minnesota fraud scandal
SNERDLEY SCALE 1/5 Well, this one is not exactly a graduate seminar in transparency. A reporter asks Minnesota’s attorney general about a fraud scandal, and Ellison responds like someone just asked him to split the dinner check after ordering lobster. The most...
JD Vance’s custom taxpayer-free chicken coop at vice president’s residence is MAGA-nificent
Washington has seen its share of political birdbrains over the years, but Vice President JD Vance is bringing in the real thing. The vice president has installed a custom-built chicken coop on the grounds of the historic Naval Observatory, the official residence of...
Fresh claims emerge about Susie Wiles’ future as she weighs in on speculation
WASHINGTON — The anti-Trump rumor mill just took another embarrassing hit. After a week packed with wins for President Donald Trump, some members of the media apparently decided it was time to dust off one of their favorite storylines: anonymous sources predicting...
Media melts down after Trump’s playful jab turns into massive book promotion for Fox News host
President Donald Trump delivered another classic Trump moment this week while promoting Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy’s bestselling new book, proving once again why no politician in modern history connects with Americans quite like he does. In a lighthearted video...
BS political cartoons of the week: What NOT to bring to a track meet
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Byron Donalds digs up David Jolly’s 2016 positions: ‘Complete 180’
BS BULLETIN: Byron Donalds is reaching back to Democrat David Jolly's days as a Republican congressman to attack his positions in Florida's governor's race. Donalds says Jolly has performed a “complete 180” on issues including guns, abortion and immigration. Jolly...
CNN wins its White House access back — then gets bounced from Trump-Xi dinner anyway
BS BULLETIN: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore White House credentials to CNN, MS NOW and Politico. The outlets were allowed back onto White House grounds Thursday after initially encountering problems getting through the gates. Hours later,...
Netanyahu watches delegates walk out at UN — then tells the ‘moral cowards’ to keep going
BS BULLETIN: Dozens of delegates streamed out of the U.N. General Assembly as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage Thursday. Netanyahu immediately invited any remaining “moral cowards” who wanted to leave to do so. He then accused critics of...
NYC Episcopal priest: Jesus was trans, God is nonbinary — and the Resurrection was a ‘transition’
BS BULLETIN: New York Episcopal priest Flourish Klink declared during a sermon that “God is nonbinary” and “God is actually also trans.” Klink argued that Jesus was assigned male at birth but was resurrected as a “true self” beyond male and female. The sermon was...
Obama says government is ‘much less corrupt’ than ever — Americans apparently didn’t get the memo
BS BULLETIN: Barack Obama says the federal government is “so much less corrupt than probably it's ever been” when it comes to bribes, patronage and favors. The former president also suggested reforms that killed old political machines made governing harder by removing...
Iran’s president tells Fox’s Bret Baier it will dilute enriched uranium: ‘It’s not a big deal’
BS BULLETIN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian flatly denied Tehran wants a nuclear bomb during a Fox News interview with Bret Baier. Pressed about Iran's uranium enriched to 60%, Pezeshkian said Iran is willing to dilute it and submit its nuclear program to...
