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Two days after a woman publicly accused him of rape, Graham Platner has yet to drop out as the Democratic nominee in Maine’s Senate race, in a reported effort to influence the selection of his successor. Politico reported on Tuesday that Platner wouldn’t drop out of the race unless he knew someone from “his progressive, anti-establishment wing of the party” would replace him.

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U.S. passports featuring President Donald Trump’s miserable mug are available now, but only if you want to race to the passport office in Washington, D.C Yes, for those who have been waiting with barely controlled anticipation since April, when the news first dropped that you could have the privilege of Trump’s face glowering at you every time you traveled abroad, their time has come.

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President Donald Trump didn’t know what “groceries” were until just a few years ago. Which makes sense, given that he’s almost certainly never set foot inside a grocery store. He even called the word “groceries” “such an old term.” Now he’s discovered another amazing concept: discounted sale prices. And because he’s Donald Trump, he assumes they’re about him. “Great news!

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Ballot measures seeking to restrict transgender student-athletes’ participation in school sports will appear before voters in Arizona, Colorado and Washington state. By Brooke Migdon for The 19th Legislatures in left-leaning states have consistently rejected bills that would bar transgender student-athletes from participating in sports in line with their gender identity.

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I get a lot of things wrong—but never when I’m predicting that President Donald Trump will screw over his own party. “Trump prepares to squander his midterm war chest,” read the headline on a story of mine from February, when Democrats were freaking out over the $483 million he had amassed. My argument was simple: Trump would spend that money purifying his party of his critics and…

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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’s pointless helipad is going to cost us a fortune Will the expensive vanity projects never end? ICE is now coming for US citizens over strongly worded emails And it could happen to you. Bernie Sanders sure knows how to pick ’em Graham Platner is…

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President Donald Trump has been known to hold onto a grudge, but his desire to take control of Greenland is eyebrow raising. On Tuesday, the president reignited his open desire to seize the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Trump said to reporters while at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

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Welcome to the latest installment in our informal series about how everyone hates acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, whom President Donald Trump has nominated to be his next head of the Department of Justice. From the posh folks at Washington’s Metropolitan Club trying to block him from joining their ranks to the 101 former federal and state judges filing a bar complaint against him…

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Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and a Republican nominee for Senate, is under fire once again after a video surfaced online that purportedly showed on vacation in London around the Fourth of July holiday. The video, obtained by The Daily Mail, appears to show Paxton sightseeing in London alongside a woman reported to be Tracy Duhon, a Christian influencer who has been romantically…

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The writing is on the wall for Graham Platner, who after being credibly accused of rape by a former girlfriend and multiple other red flags is now facing calls to drop out of the Maine Senate race by Democrats on all sides of the ideological spectrum. Platner has yet to announce whether he’ll drop out, but it is clearly untenable for him to continue as national Democrats are pulling the plug…

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Last week, we learned that although President Donald Trump has essentially had a cheat code for the Supreme Court over the past 18 months, one which allows him near-infinite lives and near-infinite wins, he simply can’t abide being refused even the smallest treat. So he’s racing back to the nation’s highest court to demand that they hear his endless arguments against why he should have to…

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The Trump administration’s campaign to whitewash American history and advance white supremacy took another step forward with the release of its report attacking the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on Sunday. The report, titled “Saving America’s Story,” claims that the widely celebrated museum has been the subject of “ideological capture” and says the institution is guilty of…

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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner’s bid is in free fall, with Democrats of all political stripes calling for him to drop out less than 24 hours after a woman came forward to credibly accuse Platner of rape. Notably silent, however, is one of the people most responsible for Platner’s meteoric rise in the first place: progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Supreme Court enshrines Trump’s racist BS into law…

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement came to his doorstep and waited outside of his hotel after he criticized them—now David Streever is suing. Streever, with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, is coming for ICE officials for impeding on his First Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed July 6. Simply put, JT Morris, the deputy director of litigation at FIRE…

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Were you hoping that the surprise helicopter landing pad being built on White House grounds could be even more corrupt and stupid? You’re in luck! The Washington Post is reporting that the White House is speeding up the construction of the helipad, a thing we only learned was being built less than a week ago, because that’s how things go these days. The accelerated timeline means this…

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The university has been fighting attempts at union organizing for years. Now it’s seeking help from an employer-friendly labor board. By Mark Kreidler for Capital & Main When a faculty group at the University of Southern California voted overwhelmingly to unionize in June, the university cloaked its decision to appeal the result of the election in the most gentle language imaginable…

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump fails miserably to throw America a birthday party…

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