today’s hot news
‘Get on the phone!’ Thune snaps back after Leavitt says Trump’s patience is running out
BS BRIEF: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared President Trump's "patience is running out" over the Senate's failure to advance the SAVE America Act before the August recess, intensifying pressure on Senate Republicans. Senate Majority Leader John...
‘The movement has begun’: MTG and Tucker tease new party next steps with strategy meeting photo
BS BRIEF: Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, former Rep. Thomas Massie, and former Trump official Joe Kent are signaling that plans for a new political movement are accelerating. Greene posted a photo from a strategy meeting Saturday with the message:...
Jack Smith probe suspended by Trump appointees
A long-running Justice Department watchdog investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith was reportedly suspended at the request of Trump administration political appointees—even as the department launched a separate criminal investigation into the prosecutor...
Sorry, not sorry: Dan Crenshaw’s non-apology for telling struggling Americans to quit whining
Rep. Dan Crenshaw has found a novel solution to America’s affordability problem: Stop complaining, get another roommate and learn to love ramen. The outgoing Texas Republican ignited a conservative firestorm after Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet relayed a...
Anne Hathaway’s old ‘whiteness’ speech explodes online as conservatives torch Hollywood lecture
BS BRIEF: An eight-year-old speech by Anne Hathaway has gone viral again after clips from her 2018 Human Rights Campaign acceptance speech spread across X, drawing millions of views and a fresh wave of criticism from conservative commentators. Elon Musk, Buck Sexton,...
Senate confirms Todd Blanche after handful of GOP holdouts threatened his nomination
The Senate confirmed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general after holdouts threatened his nomination process. The upper chamber confirmed Blanche with every Democrat and Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins voting against him. Republican...
Foreign national charged with crime for allegedly attacking 2 Jewish men
A Russian national was charged with federal hate crimes Wednesday for an attack on two Jewish men in New York City. Anna Mochalova, 32, was charged with federal hate crimes Wednesday for allegedly attacking two Jewish men on Oct. 21st in New York City. She allegedly...
DBS BILL BRIEF: Congress targets sexually explicit school lessons — but there’s an exception in the fine print
Congress churns out thousands of bills, but what’s really in them, and how could they affect you? DBS BILL BRIEF breaks down two bills a day IN PLAIN ENGLISH. IN PLAIN ENGLISH Should federal education dollars be used to provide sexually explicit instructional...
Obama blasts Omar probe — FBI and DHS investigated her marriage on his watch, report says
THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE? SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do). FBI and Homeland Security agents examined Ilhan Omar’s marriage in 2016, during the Obama administration, according to new reporting. The former U.S. attorney whose letter Omar cited as...
Anti-ICE protesters block Brooklyn Bridge — working New Yorkers aren’t buying the solidarity
THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE? SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do). Approximately 30 anti-ICE demonstrators disrupted Brooklyn Bridge traffic Wednesday; police said 14 people were taken into custody. Drivers confronted protesters over getting to work and...
CBS had 19 days’ notice of deportee’s gay asylum claim — 60 Minutes left it out
THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE? SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do). Fox News obtained an October 6 DHS email informing CBS that Moussa Diawara had claimed persecution based on his sexual orientation in an asylum application. The October 25 broadcast...
MS NOW calls Trump GDP report ‘great’ — Al Sharpton supplies the reaction shot
THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE? SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do). The economy grew at a 3.4% annualized rate in the third quarter, accelerating from 2.2% in the second quarter. An MS NOW panelist called the result great and really strong. A circulating...
