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President Donald Trump really wants the United States Postal Service to be some sort of all-purpose tool he can deploy to screw with whatever his fevered brain has decided needs screwing with. First, it was mail-in ballots, where somehow the USPS was going to run elections nationwide—or, more accurately, run elections into the ground. The Supreme Court, thankfully…

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7 minutes agoWalter EinenkelSarah Huckabee Sanders calls outrage towards her manufacturedHuckabee Sanders made the mistake of casting a white person as the cartoonishly lazy welfare recipient in one of her ads against government assistance, and members of her own base responded with racist criticism.Copy linkShare on FacebookShare on XShare via email 17 minutes agoWalter EinenkelJon Ossoff on…

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Better Know a Democrat is an interview series to give voters a closer look at candidates in competitive races across the U.S. Maine’s political races are in the spotlight this year. If it wasn’t Gov. Janet Mills pulling out from a run for Senate, it was her Democratic opponent Graham Platner’s lightning-like rise and equally stunning fall making headlines. Matt Dunlap…

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Faced with the very real prospect of major Republican losses in the upcoming midterms, the White House is now lying about Democrats getting a push from Iranian extremists. The charge was led by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who has often served as the Trump administration’s top attack dog and smear agent. On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…

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With 34 days until the midterms, Republican strategists see at least five U.S. House seats are a lost cause for their party as President Donald Trump’s abysmal approval rating threatens to drag the GOP into the political abyss. Punchbowl News reported that Republicans are broadly resigned to losses in California’s 48th District, Iowa’s 1st District, Nebraska’s 2nd District, New Jersey’s 7th…

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Republican efforts to distance themselves from Trump reek of desperation…

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In what’s an all-too-predictable fascist arc, President Donald Trump’s behavior is getting odder every day. He’s entirely convinced his dominion and power are infinite, and he’s surrounded himself with people who will never disabuse him of that notion. On Wednesday, this weirdness came in the form of an executive order banning ticks and mosquitoes from Washington, D.C. Yes, really.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that his administration had secured $607 million in funding to modernize a public housing complex in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn—only for some reporters to ask about lawsuits, brought by wealthy plaintiffs, against his tax on second homes worth more than $5 million. In response, Mamdani once again centered the people who voted for him and reminded…

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When Republicans corruptly redrew Texas’ congressional map to try to nix as many as five Democratic seats, it was the 9th District that they expected to be the easiest flip. That seat, held by Democratic Rep. Al Green, went from one that former Vice President Kamala Harris won by 44 percentage points in 2024 to one that President Donald Trump carried by nearly 20 points.

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Former President Barack Obama has not been president for almost a decade now, but according to Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia, current high gas prices are Obama’s fault. McCormick made his argument during an appearance on the right-wing Newsmax network on Wednesday. “Gas prices are artificially inflated but that’s going to be temporary. Get the truth out there.

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Republicans have finally identified why voters hate them, and apparently, they just need better messaging—you know, the kind that distracts from the fact that we are at war, everything is getting more expensive, and millions of people are losing their healthcare. This week on Daily Kos’ “Room Temp” podcast, Janesh and Markos dig into the increasingly desperate advice conservatives are giving…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump can’t make ‘super intelligence’ happen…

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Did you hear about the massive data breach currently rocking the Trump administration? No, silly, not the FBI data breach. Sure, ShinyHunters, a legendary hacking group, snatched up the personal data of what appears to be every FBI employee, including information on sensitive job assignments, but that’s only a paltry 38,000 people or so. This time, we’re talking about a hack that put up…

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Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Wednesday, where she warned that Americans must stay vigilant during the midterms as President Donald Trump and the GOP become increasingly desperate as their prospects dwindle. “The authoritarian playbook is very clear: When you’re at risk of losing, you either A, make up a threat that only…

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The Trump administration can’t get enough of famous men with rap sheets. Russell Brand, the former actor turned Christian influencer, appeared alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz on Tuesday, moderating a Make America Healthy Again panel, and Brand looked awfully comfortable despite the fact that he heads to trial on Oct. 12. Brand has pleaded not…

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President Donald Trump is under fire for reportedly financing a series of self-celebratory campaign ads by using funds that Congress appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee are now demanding accountability from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Chris Murphy of Connecticut sent a…

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When we look back on the second Trump administration, history is not going to be kind to the six Supreme Court conservatives who’ve eagerly assisted in President Donald Trump’s most brutal policies. The latest mortal stain is that they stepped aside to allow Trump to continue third-country deportations with no due process. The administration likes to deport people to countries they…

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Ken Paxton, you in danger, girl. On Wednesday, The New York Times published secretly obtained audio in which the Texas Republican nominee for Senate admitted that President Donald Trump’s midterm convention hurt the GOP more than it helped. “So to be honest with you, the numbers—when we did that convention—it dropped our numbers,” Paxton says in the recording, which the Times reported…

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A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Supreme Court conservatives ensure midterm chaos…

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