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It is both staggering and utterly unsurprising to get proof positive that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bald-faced lied to the Senate during his confirmation hearing. Honestly, with this administration, not lying is probably a rarer occurrence, but nonetheless. The Guardian and The Associated Press got their mitts on letters proving that Kennedy’s claim that a…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | ICE finds heinous new way to spend millions and terrorize people…

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The U.S. military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack. The U.S. defense official said the most concerning shortfall…

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House Speaker Mike Johnson told a room full of GOP acolytes that the Republican midterm convention is not a desperate attempt to engage voters but a chance to remind them of President Donald Trump’s disastrous stewardship of the country. Johnson recalled a phone conversation in which Trump ordered him to hold a “midterm convention,” remarking, it’s the “first time in history any party’s ever…

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Monday’s Supreme Court ruling has set off a new court scramble to block the mail ballot restrictions for this November’s election. By Dion Nissenbaum for Votebeat Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail ballots via executive order is procedural and narrow, but it’s fueling broad confusion and uncertainty as the November…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Remembering Dolly…

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz is at it again spinning anti-vax conspiracies. This time, he’s casting doubt on the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania earlier this week. “We don’t know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet,” Oz told Fox Business. “We don’t know if these children died from measles or they had another condition that was already attacking…

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Well, well, what have we here? A state governor and his team actively participating in Medicaid fraud? With the help of his wife? And a kinda fake-y charity? How DARE Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife Gw— Wait, sorry. I’m getting word that this is about Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey’s lil fake-y charity, Hope Florida. CBS Miami broke the news Wednesday night…

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I’ve been reporting on campaigns and elections for over a decade now, cutting my teeth at Roll Call and working alongside the smart folks making the race ratings at Inside Elections before I took the dive into partisan media. And knowing what I do for a living, my friends and families without fail will ask me every election cycle: “What do you think is going to happen in November?

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In another gut-churning example of Wilhoit’s law, it looks like the lone Immigration and Customs Enforcement thug who Minnesota has been able to charge for the deadly rampage across the state will soon walk free—criminal charges be damned. When Christian Castro fled the state—well, with the help of the federal government, of course—after shooting a defenseless Venezuelan immigrant in…

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A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Canada and US unite to mock Trump’s tariff buffoonery…

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Emilie Hopson, a Nacogdoches, Texas, rancher and agricultural consultant, was pissed. President Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to her industry and her ability to make a living, and she was livid about it. But the Facebook comments on her friends’ feeds were replete with people delivering a simple message: FAFO—fuck around, find out. They voted for Trump, so they deserved the consequences.

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Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers’ bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, the Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television reported. He was 84. The reports said that Mladic died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague…

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10 minutes agoWalter EinenkelTrump administration wants to escalate ill-advised trade war with Canada. Bloomberg: Copy linkShare on FacebookShare on XShare via email 34 minutes agoWalter EinenkelPolling on Trump’s trade with Canada are not looking good for GOPCopy linkShare on FacebookShare on XShare via email 48 minutes agoWalter EinenkelGOP’s message is the same as it was during the Vietnam War.

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Isn’t it fun being ruled by someone who is all id, no brains? America’s slide into fascism is terrifying, but it is also very stupid. While President Donald Trump puffs out his chest and goes to war against Canada for not knuckling under on his unhinged tariff threats, and against Iran for, well, who knows why really, he’s also engaged in a stupid attack on your pocketbook—and your pocketbook…

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From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake. By Audrey Dutton for ProPublica In Idaho, parents who say their faith prohibits lifesaving medical care for their children can’t be charged with child neglect or manslaughter. Supporters of this protection over the years have…

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For all his self-created lore of being a consummate dealmaker, President Donald Trump actually sucks at deals, mostly using legal threats and actions to bully his way to his preferred outcomes. And those outcomes aren’t even particularly good ones. There is that famous calculation that Trump would’ve made far more money had he simply put his inherited wealth into an index fund. And we’ve seen…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Canada and US unite to mock Trump’s tariff buffoonery…

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Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton operates best in the shadows. But his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, is working hard to drag his shit into the light. According to The Washington Post, Talarico just filed a motion seeking to make public two depositions Paxton sat for in 2019 and 2022 in a roiling mess of a case from his time as a board member and attorney with the…

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