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Not content with seeing his face and name plastered on federal buildings, passports, airports, and commemorative coins, President Donald Trump is now seeking to create a new denomination of U.S. currency that will have his ugly face smack dab in the center. The Washington Post reported that Trump personally spoke with the artist who mocked up the $250 bill Trump wants created—even though…

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In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections. The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.66 degrees Celsius) between now and…

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | President Grandpa keeps going to the doctor…

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The Commerce Department revealed on Thursday that inflation increased to 3.8% in April, the highest it has been since May 2023. The latest bad economic news follows a performance by President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday where he repeatedly downplayed how Americans are hurting under his presidency. The rate of inflation was up from the 3.5% measured in March and was…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | How extreme could gerrymandering get?

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President Donald Trump is committing impeachable offenses at a dizzying clip, weaponizing the federal government against his enemies and lining his pockets with taxpayer dollars. In his latest offense, Trump’s Department of Justice is criminally investigating E. Jean Carroll, the writer whose lawsuits led to Trump being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. According to CNN…

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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. By a 5-4 vote, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was sentenced to death for his role in the killing of a grocery store owner. There was one Black juror in a trial with similarities to that of another Black man on…

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The United States’ Semiquincentennial is coming up—250 years, baby! Let’s party! To celebrate, the Great American State Fair will be popping up on the National Mall, and you know that the music is gonna be tight. Let’s see who’s lined up so far: Well, it’s certainly no Turning Point USA alternative halftime show, but we’ll just have to make do, won’t we? By this point…

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The population has plummeted over the past seven years as climate change triggers mass starvation in warming Arctic waters. By Blaine Harden for Inside Climate News Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists.

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House Democrats are getting ready to fight the Trump administration’s corruption, with the launch of an “End Corruption Caucus” on Wednesday. In a press release, the caucus—which is chaired by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Jason Crow of Colorado, and Mike Levin of California—said it will “work to advance legislation, bring together like-minded partners, and aim to root out…

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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. Rejoice! Trump Mobile’s ‘urine sample’ phone finally launched. And it’s far from a viable phone. Ken Paxton’s win is another fake victory for Trump Just because Trump wanted it doesn’t make it good for the GOP. Trump plots to muzzle federal workers’ First Amendment…

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Practically every day, we learn more about how the Trump administration is taking your money and giving it to a motley of cronies who are trashing the place. In the latest insult to our ongoing injury, we’ve found out that the sweet little no-bid contract received by Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the company wrecking the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, is excessive.

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Sharyn Alfonsi’s time as a “60 Minutes” correspondent is done after she reportedly butted heads with executives when CBS News pulled her story on the notorious CECOT prison. “The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over,” Alfonsi said in a statement obtained by Puck News. “Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty…

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President Donald Trump held one of his unhinged Cabinet meetings on Wednesday. He opened by delivering a self-congratulatory speech about the greatness of his administration. “Trump Rx.gov is what it is and it’s the hottest site I think anywhere on the planet from what I understand, Bobby [Kennedy Jr.], right?” Trump said. “People are calling up and they’re buying drugs for a fraction…

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Don’t worry—Trump’s ballroom will save us all…

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Well, we’re finding out what public health looks like under President Donald Trump: sending U.S. citizens to Kenya after being exposed to Ebola. It probably goes without saying that this is not how things have been handled previously. This Ebola outbreak is already the third largest on record, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website is currently barren as hell.

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Scared about losing a GOP-friendly House seat in Texas, a shady super PAC with Republican ties meddled in a Democratic primary to try to push an unelectable candidate to victory. A super PAC called “Lean Left” spent nearly $1 million in the primary’s runoff election in an effort to boost antisemitic lunatic Maureen Galindo over moderate Democrat Johnny Garcia in Texas’ 35th District.

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