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Changes to federal student loans expected to affect millions of borrowers took effect July 1. A part of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” these changes mean the end of some payment plans and new limits for graduate loans. Along with the end of the Biden-era SAVE plan, the changes are expected to raise the cost of payments for millions of borrowers. “The main concern is the…

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Back in May, Republicans telegraphed their midterm strategy, and it had nothing to do with affordability or competent governance. “A couple more states redistricting in a way that’s helpful for us, move into the summer with America 250, and a midterm convention at some point,” a “very senior Republican strategist” told NOTUS. “I think we’ve got some good touch points to kind of keep that…

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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 refuses to move on after massive fail on birthright citizenship He’s a toddler who can’t handle being told no. The Constitution is clear on birthright citizenship. Alito doesn’t care. Anyone born in the United States is a citizen. The end.

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

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Are you having trouble keeping track of all of the ways that President Donald Trump is desecrating Washington, D.C., with his signature blend of shoddiness, cronyism, bad taste, and grift? There are many, so we should all forgive ourselves for not catching his latest White House project: a new helipad. Of course, like most things with this administration, we only learned about this by…

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President Donald Trump loves to keep reaffirming women in his close circle, and it looks like the latest one to come into the public discourse is his assistant, Natalie Harp. The young blonde’s proximity to Trump is nothing new, but following the release of “Regime Change” by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, her peculiar relationship with the president has garnered some eyes…

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President Donald Trump is downplaying the more than 235% increase in his annual income since his second term began, a clear attempt to obscure the pattern of corruption among his administration. According to newly released financial disclosures, Trump reported $622 million in revenue in 2024. That jumped to more than $2.2 billion last year. But when he was asked about the massive…

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When it comes to the Supreme Court, no amount of treats is enough for President Donald Trump. Sure, they gave him blanket immunity from his myriad crimes, paving the way to retake office. Sure, they just gave him nearly unlimited power to reshape the administrative state and turn it into his personal fiefdom/dumping ground for exceedingly online groypers. And sure…

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In an appearance on Fox News, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussed whether immigrant women should be subject to some sort of pregnancy screening. The topic came up as Mullin and “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade discussed ways to follow up the Supreme Court decision reaffirming the right to birthright citizenship, which an executive order from President Donald Trump had…

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Though you do not generally have to hand it to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, you do kind of have to hand it to him in one very important respect: He has somehow managed to be even less likable than his predecessor, Kristi Noem. Witness his genuinely disgusting remarks after the Iranian national team was eliminated from the World Cup: “I’m just glad they’re done…

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

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The Fourteenth Amendment could not be any clearer: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” There is no hedging, no vagueness, no double meanings, and no misplaced comma introducing ambiguity. All persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States.

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Hello, everyone! As Markos has indicated several times previously, we’re working on a bit of a design refresh for the Front Page. In the course of those discussions, we’ve realized that we’ve long taken for granted that the casual reader — one coming to the site from a search result or social share or aggregator link, but who doesn’t have much prior knowledge about this place — can scan the Front…

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President Donald Trump failed to get the Supreme Court to throw out birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for more than 150 years. So now of course, Trump is calling on Congress to undo the law. But abolishing birthright citizenship is widely opposed by the American public. In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted to uphold birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s executive…

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Nature’s oven was on high Tuesday for millions of people in the Midwest and Great Lakes states as intense heat and humidity baked the regions with no immediate relief before the misery shifts to the eastern U.S. The National Weather Service was blunt: Conditions were “dangerous” as the heat index, a combination of air temperature and humidity, exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8…

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When Donald Trump returned to the White House, one industry was convinced it had finally elected its champion: crypto. Trump didn’t just promise lighter regulation on cryptocurrency. He declared himself America’s “crypto president.” He vowed to make the United States the crypto capital of the world. He appointed a White House crypto czar, David Sacks. He hosted crypto executives at an…

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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. Remember the right-wing families who moved to Russia? Here’s where they are now. Spoiler alert: It’s not going well. Supreme Court’s leader doesn’t care about the Constitution The justices’ pocketbooks are sacred, but anything else is up for grabs.

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