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A cartoon by Brian McFadden. Support my Patreon for early access and exclusives. Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, or at my website. Related | GOP senators skip town to avoid telling Trump they hate his slush fund…

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Stephen Colbert signed off for the last time Thursday night, and it was a beauty. “The Late Show” host opened the show with his traditional monologue, but this time he also addressed the audience at home. Reflecting on his debut nearly 11 years ago, Colbert proclaimed, “Anyone can read the news to you, I promise to feel the news at you.” “I realized pretty soon in this job that our job…

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When it comes to doing his job, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is on it. The problem is that Blanche knows his real job isn’t attorney general—head of the Department of Justice, the nation’s highest law enforcement officer who works on behalf of the people. Rather, Blanche’s job is to be President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. So he is shopping that sweet…

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Hunter Biden sat down for a strange interview Thursday with right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, and the two agreed on several hot-button issues despite their political differences. For years, Biden was the target of unhinged and baseless accusations from right-wing figures, including Owens. Led by President Donald Trump, the right frequently invoked Biden’s struggles…

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund is worse than you think…

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A human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, was thrown out Friday. Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador last year became an embarrassment for Trump officials when they were ordered to return him to the U.S. Abrego Garcia claimed that both the timing of the criminal charges…

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National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who pushed President Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, is resigning. Citing her husband’s health, she said that she will be leaving her role on June 30 to take care of him. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months,” she wrote on X.

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Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota went on CNBC to defend President Donald Trump’s settlement with the IRS that would produce a nearly $1.8 billion slush fund to pay reparations to those against whom the government was supposedly “weaponized,” such as the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “So we’re all clear, you support the settlement that the president made with…

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The Current Work List The Fix List It’s hard to believe we have been on DK6 for six weeks! Just a reminder, we are still taking logout reports if you have issues with logging in or staying logged in, and definitely take your bug reports/feature requests in the comments. We are closing access to the free six-month subscription later today, so if you have any friends or family…

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There’s a growing Ebola outbreak, but it’ll probably all be fine, right? The United States has such a robust domestic public health infrastructure and such deep international ties that we probably don’t need to worry— Oh wait. To the extent that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seem to be dealing with it at all, it’s just to say that the risk to American travelers and the…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Attorney general won’t rule out pedophiles getting slush fund payouts…

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On Thursday evening, House Republicans canceled a vote on a resolution that would have stopped President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, as GOP leaders knew the legislation would pass and deliver an embarrassing loss to their Dear Leader. Instead of voting on the resolution to stop Trump’s boondoggle of a war—which has spiked gas prices and in turn the cost of other goods and services—House…

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Larry Bushart is a quintessential good ole southern boy. In the 1980s, he drove a ‘79 Pontiac Sunbird fitted with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush bumper stickers. But as a self-identified “FDR Democrat” today, Bushart describes that time in his life as being a young guy who just “didn’t know how to vote.” Forty years later, Bushart—now a retired police officer living in…

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Under current maps, Republicans are likely to gain up to 17 seats, while Democrats could gain up to six. By Anna Claire Vollers for Stateline In the past two years, a dozen states have either approved new U.S. House maps or are moving toward doing so — a highly unusual mid-decade revamp prompted by President Donald Trump and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling late last month.

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | The devil is in the details of Trump’s shady IRS ‘settlement’…

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As predictable as the sun rising in the east, President Donald Trump is insisting he has found One Weird Trick that allows him to sidestep Congress, permitting laws, safety requirements, and anything else that would ever constrain him. The president must be allowed his Big Buildings! Top of mind for Trump right now is the so-called triumphal arch he wants to erect in Washington.

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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 is winning all the wrong battles His whole presidency is a crash course on what not to do. Cops attacked by Jan. 6 rioters sue Trump over reparations scheme But you know, back the blue and all that. Trump’s latest GOP target is his dumbest yet We say let…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | It’s a ballroom … it’s a bunker … it’s a ‘drone port’?

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune sent his chamber home early for Memorial Day weekend, refusing to put what Republicans deemed a must-pass immigration funding bill up for a vote amid GOP infighting. At issue is an internal battle over President Donald Trump’s slush fund, which hands out nearly $1.8 billion to Jan. 6 insurrectionists and other traitors who claim to be victims of former…

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While not official, many outlets are reporting that fail-son Donald Trump Jr. and fiancée Bettina Anderson are getting married over Memorial Day weekend. And during a press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump was asked whether he plans to attend the wedding. “Uhh, he’d like me to go. But it’s gonna be just a small little private affair. I’m gonna try and make it,” Trump said.

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