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President Donald Trump gave a sweetheart, no-bid, $13 million contract to a vendor who handles the pools at his tacky Trump-branded properties to “renovate” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, painting the bottom of the massive basin of sitting water a dark “American flag blue” and allegedly fixing the filtration system so that it will have “clean, beautiful water.” But…

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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. 43 years ago: Sally Ride became the first US woman in space She’s also the youngest person to go to space. Trump will do anything to rig elections—even kneecap his own nominees We’d feel bad for Jay Clayton if he weren’t so evil. Trump says the quiet part out loud…

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A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Trump takes phony victory lap after Iran disaster…

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JD Vance was supposed to be spending the week promoting his new book, the kind of event a potential presidential candidate like the vice president typically uses to speak to a wide audience about his life and values ahead of a campaign. Instead, the rollout of Vance’s second book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” has been largely crowded out by something else he’s put his name on…

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When Sen. Bernie Sanders released his legislation for an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Thursday, media outlets like the Washington Post were already quick to label this as a long shot—but the sentiment behind Sanders’ proposal is actually growing across the aisle. “What this bill will do is a step to not only give the public the ability to stop negative impacts, but also share in some of the…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | MAGA kooks are drowning in dirty reflecting pool conspiracies…

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Former President Barack Obama is getting a little help from his friends, including three former presidents, in celebrating the opening of his presidential museum in Chicago. The guestlist for Thursday’s dedication ceremony includes Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera and Bono. Obama posed for pictures before the ceremony with former presidents Joe Biden, George W.

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Poor Tommy Tuberville. All he wants to do is become governor of Alabama and shed his nickname as the dumbest man in the Senate. But Tuberville seems to have forgotten a key factor in his cunning plan to get a new job: You have to, well, live in Alabama to run for governor of Alabama. And Tuberville … does not, at least per the lawsuit just filed in Alabama state court.

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Republicans cry fraud in Los Angeles because they’re sore losers…

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New York has been electric since the Knicks completed their storybook playoff run on Saturday to deliver long-suffering fans throughout not only the city but the entire tri-state area their first NBA title in 53 years. On Thursday, millions of fans gathered in lower Manhattan for the traditional ticker-tape parade down the aptly named “Canyon of Heroes,” with jubilant revelers chanting…

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I’m writing the end of week update today instead of tomorrow because Daily Kos staff are off tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth. I plan to bring my twins to a cultural event in my town in observance — I’ll see you all again next week. Please continue to send those bug reports! They are critical to us fixing hard-to-capture issues like the logout bug and anything going on with the post scheduler.

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump all but admitted that Iran outmaneuvered the United States in the idiotic war Trump started without a plan, forcing him to sign what amounts to an unconditional surrender to the adversarial nation to avoid “economic catastrophe.” “I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened,” Trump said Wednesday at a news…

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Poor Jay Clayton. Wednesday was supposed to be his big day: a Senate confirmation hearing where he would transition from being the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York to the director of National Intelligence. But then President Donald Trump stepped in and whisked it all away, delaying Clayton’s hearing so that he could lean on Congress to vote for an entirely unrelated…

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On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride made history as the first U.S. woman—and the youngest person—to go to space. Ride’s trip was just over 20 years after the first woman traveled to space: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Ride passed away from cancer in 2012 at the age of 61. “I didn’t go into it to be a role model,” Ride told journalist James M.

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Some families have decided the price is too great of a financial burden and canceled their coverage. By Andrew Jones for KFF SUGAR GROVE, N.C. — Year after year, Ross and Rebecca Tobiassen saw their healthcare costs rise, having relied on the Affordable Care Act for federally subsidized health insurance since its start in 2014. Year after year, the couple in western North Carolina…

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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. Trump keeps making things weird at G7 summit He can’t stop saying really strange things about his fellow world leaders. Kash Patel throws around lots of cash—but still has no clue how to do his job Did you know the FBI director seems to have his own little slush…

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Honestly, this is getting as predictable as the sun rising in the east. The Department of Justice just ran to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to say that a foiled plot to attack President Donald Trump’s big UFC birthday bash on the White House lawn proves that Trump needs his giant ballroom. You see, this was actually an “assassination plot” against the president, but if Trump had his…

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A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Trump takes phony victory lap after Iran disaster…

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Many soccer players have found themselves in choppy water as they try to navigate the United States’ hardening border policy while traveling for the World Cup—but no one has felt it quite like the Iranian team. “Everything is a disaster for us,” player Mehdi Taremi told reporters Tuesday. He said that FIFA President Gianni Infantino visited their locker room because “he wants to try to…

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