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President Donald Trump is always eager to take credit for achievements—but not to actually do the whole achieving thing in the first place. That part is for suckers and losers, of course. So it’s no surprise that his “solution” to high gas prices is to do some behind-the-scenes fiddling to make it look like gas prices are coming down without them actually coming down. And it’s all in a…

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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. What Republican ghoul will take Lindsey Graham’s spot? None of the options are much better than their predecessor. ‘Guardian of the strait’: Trump gets even more delusional about Iran war He’s like the boy who cried wolf … 38 times. Republicans love paid sick leave…

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A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | GOP desperately insists Mitch McConnell is alive and well…

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a bone to pick with government staffers sharing insider information with the press—so he breathlessly announced a joint task force to “IDENTIFY AND PROSECUTE LEAKERS.” “Leaked information risks lives,” the former Fox News host said in a video posted to X on Monday. “Access to confidential and secret information is a sacred trust, and those who betray that…

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Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Monday called for an investigation after a Colombian immigrant legally authorized to work in the U.S. was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Collins’ home state of Maine. “The shooting in Biddeford requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened,” Collins wrote in a post. “It is my understanding that the Biddeford…

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News broke over the weekend that the administration had subpoenaed multiple New York Times journalists over the crime of reporting unfavorably on the antics of Dear Leader. The administration is very unhappy that the Times reported on the big switcheroo where President Donald Trump, after soaking the taxpayers for untold millions for his fancy new bribe plane, was forced to use his old, sad…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump’s latest ploy to avoid paying E. Jean Carroll is just pathetic…

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A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general announced Monday that they filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the looming merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Discovery. The suit alleges that the merger would violate federal antitrust law due to the control that the combined companies—led by the pro-Trump Ellison family—would have over the entertainment and media industry.

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The Republican Party is firmly against paid sick leave for workers, making the United States the only advanced economy that does not require it. But two Republicans—Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. of New Jersey—have recently received months of paid sick leave, even though they have a track record of voting against it for U.S. workers.

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By now, nearly everyone is no longer even really pretending that the Trump sons are legitimate businessmen making their own way in the world. Even the Washington Post, currently in the midst of transforming itself into a hype man for the Trump administration, can’t quite avoid saying what we all know: Don Jr. and Eric have “amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are…

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | GOP desperately insists Mitch McConnell is alive and well…

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In his latest attempt to assert his leadership despite the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iran, President Donald Trump turned once again to his allies at Fox News on Monday morning, proclaiming that he intends to turn the U.S. into the “guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s comments come on the heels of another weekend filled with the U.S. and Iran exchanging fire…

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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden and unexpected death over the weekend has set off a frenzy of activity in the Palmetto State, with GOP elected officials jockeying to be selected as the longtime lawmaker’s replacement. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster will choose who will serve out the remainder of Graham’s term, which was set to end in January. Related | Sen.

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The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old — the oldest the state has executed in modern times. The next two set to die are older still. The series of executions, due to be carried out by the end of this month, highlights the nation’s aging death-row population. One of Florida’s prisoners scheduled to die in July, a man convicted of killing his ex…

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Vice President JD Vance is reportedly negotiating to rent a luxury manor in Virginia from a real estate tycoon who has made millions on data centers—the same data centers sprouting up across the country thanks to the Trump administration’s ongoing push for AI technology. The Daily Beast reported on Friday that Vance and his wife Usha are talking to multimillionaire Charles “Chuck” Kuhn about…

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Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries. By Nick Bowlin and Al Shaw for ProPublica Down a dirt road in northwest Oklahoma, only a few hundred yards from where the city of Enid draws its…

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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. If that old political adage bears out this year, it would be a hell of a problem for the Republican Party. Recent polling shows the state’s Senate and gubernatorial races…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump makes the World Cup even more corrupt…

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It’s the largest housing package this century. A bipartisan unicorn. And the first measure in years designed to reach those most often shut out of homeownership, including single moms. By Chabeli Carrazana for The 19th For decades, single mothers have been kept from homeownership by a market that was not designed to deliver them the American Dream. That could all be about to change…

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