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DeSantis administration still controls immigration detention center site. By Liv Caputo for Florida Phoenix A Miccosukee Tribe member wants her nation to be the new protector of the so-called ”Alligator Alcatraz” site, calling Friday on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to give it the territory to conserve. But there’s a problem. The DeSantis administration…

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Five years after launching an ambitious mental health program, many schools have struggled to get it up and running. Hundreds more have yet to try. By Christine Mai-Duc for KFF When Taletha Washburn and the staff at Plumas Charter School first heard that California wanted to help schools treat more kids struggling with mental health, it felt like a well-timed remedy for a rural…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | JD Vance reveals baby-making secrets—and it’s as gross as it sounds…

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President Donald Trump has trundled his way—in pathetic fits and starts—through a caricature of America, one with his own extremely limited personal soundtrack. It’s filled with Lee Greenwood, Italian classics from the weird conservative guy who wrecks opera songs, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend bellowing a pitchy “Star-Spangled Banner.” But what about the real soundtrack of America?

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This midterm election cycle has delivered us a number of unhinged primaries. There was the Texas barnburner between Republican Sen. John Cornyn and corrupt state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace’s erratic behavior dragged down her bid to become governor. And California’s gubernatorial primary was upended by a horrific sexual misconduct scandal involving now…

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Why America 250 won’t save the GOP in the midterms…

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Well, we don’t have to play the will-he-or-won’t-he game about President Donald Trump’s attendance at the World Cup round of 16 in Seattle, where the United States will face off against Belgium. It turns out that both Trump and Vice President JD Vance are too chickenshit to travel to the terrifying no-go zone of Seattle to watch the game. It’s kind of weird that the White House isn’…

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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 slump continues with dismal jobs report Few jobs, high prices: the GOP’s midterms message. The right is still pissed about that birthright citizenship decision Apparently, obeying the Constitution is a “betrayal.” Fox News’ lies exposed by weak…

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

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The White House is supercharging its deportation efforts again, and the timing shouldn’t go unnoticed. According to The New York Times, daily immigration arrests have recently doubled as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers put in seven-day workweeks to sweep the streets of people they’ve deemed deportable. Over 10,000 immigrants were reportedly detained within a five-day span…

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A former Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where a renovation project he launched has been riddled with problems. David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, was indicted on a single count of property destruction in Washington, D.C. court. District of Columbia U.S.

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The families and survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are finally receiving some of the money owed to them by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The satirical publication The Onion, which recently took control of Jones’ InfoWars brand, paid out $100,000 to the Sandy Hook families during the relaunch of the InfoWars website. Jones owes the families about $1.

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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Supreme Court’s leader doesn’t care about the Constitution…

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Honestly, this is getting exhausting. Every day—like, literally every day by now—we see evidence of some new desecration of the White House. One of the most galling things about this latest indignity is that we don’t actually know what is happening here, because why would we ever know about the workings of our government these days? All we know for sure is that there was suddenly some…

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President Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” has been an attendance disaster, but his allies at Fox News are doing their best to hide the failure. While broadcasting from the event Thursday, co-host Dana Perino proclaimed that there was great “excitement” days before the celebration of America’s 250th birthday. But the imagery behind Perino and co-host Bill Hemmer told a…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Supreme Court’s leader doesn’t care about the Constitution…

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed on Thursday the U.S. economy’s persistent weakness under President Donald Trump, with the June jobs report showing nearly 60,000 fewer jobs created than economists had anticipated. In June the U.S. economy added a paltry 57,000 jobs. The Dow Jones consensus forecast had expected a gain of 115,000 jobs. The BLS report noted that employment in the leisure…

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I’m writing the end-of-week update a day early today, because Daily Kos has July 3 off for the holiday. Happy independence day! What We Changed This Week What Are Working On Next Week *The “Jump to Comments” box is something we are trying out. I know a lot of people don’t like it — please keep sharing your feedback. It seems like the logout issue is much better for a…

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Justice Samuel Alito doesn’t like birthright citizenship, so he tried to legislate it away from the bench. Luckily, he failed. But he’s not the only one fuming. “The Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship is a tremendous betrayal of the republic,” tweeted Kevin Roberts, the president of the arch-conservative Heritage Foundation, who gave us Project 2025. “The Justices in the…

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On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the historic Civil Rights Act during a nationally televised ceremony at the White House. Flanked by members of Congress and activists, including Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson signed the most far-reaching piece of civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. “It may be true that you can’t legislate integration…

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