Lis Power
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Politico Playbook didn't have any examples of Dems engaging in the 'silly culture war' they were talking about ... so they literally just made one up
Politico discussing actual quotes from Trump, Mike Johnson on Bad Bunny and making up a quote for what Chuck Schumer might say in order to both sides an issue that really is just MAGA being whiney over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl
lispower.bsky.social
Fox News is ignoring the Susan Monarez hearing

At the Senate hearing, she stated that RFK Jr demanded she commit to approve every ACIP vaccine recommendation regardless of the science, and to dismiss agency experts without cause, at direction of the WH
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Fox's Trey Gowdy: "What does it say about our culture that everywhere you go you have to have a cop to keep you alive?"

"We got to decide whether or not we want to live like this. ... The problem with [the statute] murder is someone is already dead, I'm looking for the ones that keep people alive"
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Fox host Trey Gowdy: "We're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. How many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of -- it's always a young white male, almost always."
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Very brave of Fox to send their reporter to the front lines of the Cracker Barrel Wars
Fox Business correspondent reporting in front of a Cracker Barrel
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Even Fox & Friends hosts seemingly don't want to talk about the Cracker Barrel logo and are struggling to explain how it's woke

Earhardt: Cracker Barrel, we're talking about it again ....

Hurt: Oh my goodness
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I’m sorry, but what exactly am I supposed to think is “woke” about this logo change?
Fox News graphic shows “go woke, go broke?” with the Cracker Barrel logo change
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Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
Fox News graphic "Russia plot rubber stamp?" with a picture of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 

Chyron reads: Durham docs: HRC Csigned off on Trump-Russia Plan 

(None of this is true, hence the ?)
lispower.bsky.social
When the jobs report is bad 😟
Fox Business panel all making very sad faces over the lower than expected jobs report and downward revisions
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mmfa.bsky.social
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” and just 3 minutes of coverage to developments in the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Fox News since Monday: 85 minutes talking about Sydney Sweeney, 3 minutes talking about Epstein
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” devoting over 20 segments to the story. In compariso...
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CNBC: The EPA is moving to rescind this endangerment finding on carbon dioxide and greenhouses gases. Is that a danger to public health?

MAKARY: To be honest, I don't know enough about that issue

CNBC: You're in charge of our public health! Can you look into it for us?
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Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Screenshot of Washington Post homepage. Lead headline is: "Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise." 

Lead image is of a woman in Gaza holding an almost impossibly emaciated child
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Fox News has spent more time this week discussing Hillary Clinton's emails than they have on a new watchdog report that Hegseth (a former Fox host) did in fact share classified info
Image from Washington Post article on Hegseth's sharing of classified information in the Signal group chat

The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen were derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said.

The revelation appears to contradict long-standing claims by the Trump administration that no classified information was divulged in unclassified group chats that critics have called a significant security breach.
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Checking in on the news

CNN: WSJ report that DOJ told Trump his name was in the Epstein files

MSNBC: WSJ report that DOJ told Trump his name was in the Epstein files

Fox News: Not that
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The "news" according to Fox

(These are all different segments)
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Help, what year is it?!

Fox News this morning
Fox & Friends is somehow still talking about Hillary Clinton's emails 

Chyron: FBI allegedly botched probe into Hillary Clinton's emails with a picture of Hillary Clinton speaking
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Uncharted levels of cope from Charlie Kirk today
Charlie Kirk: "As President Donald Trump is upset on Truth Social, I do not think he's attacking all of you in the rank-and-file. Instead, President Donald Trump is venting off some anger right now.” Charlie Kirk complains about a lack of Epstein messaging from the Trump administration: “We're basically having to do the PR work of the administration”
Kirk: “People like myself and Benny Johnson and Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec, we're out here. We're having to explain this all day long. ... People are very, very confused, and some people are very disappointed and mad.” Charlie Kirk on the Trump administration and Epstein: “We're getting flooded with thousands, hundreds of thousands of comments that are very unhappy”
Kirk downplays the situation: “A lot of this is largely just a misunderstanding.”
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jacobbogage.bsky.social
I read Trump + Senate Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" so you don't have to.

It came out at *midnight* & we're still getting numbers in from Congress's bookkeepers.

Early returns:
Nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts.

Happy Saturday. Follow for more.

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whstancil.bsky.social
This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
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petetsipis.bsky.social
Clay Travis calls for an ICE raid at Dodger Stadium:

"Could you imagine if they did an ICE raid in the parking lot of the LA Dodgers stadium... That would be kind of amazing."
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Fox anchor John Roberts suggests law enforcement is showing a lot of restraint by not shooting protesters

Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"