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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has her sights set on a famous YouTuber who just bought a financial services platform for … teens? “I have questions for MrBeast,” the Massachusetts senator wrote atop an image of herself posted to her Instagram Thursday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elizabeth Warren (@senwarren) Indeed, she has plenty of questions. In a 12-page letter addressed to…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Bondi's out, Blanche is in—for now Trump gets his dream attorney general: his former criminal defense lawyer. Fox News goes into fluff mode after US jet is downed in Iran Gotta pad the ego of their No. 1 viewer. The most transparent administration in history strikes again Trump is laying …

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President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the the U.S.-led war against Iran . The president's plan wou…

As part of his modern messaging campaign, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dropped a video to promote his free child care pilot program for 2-year-olds—with an assist from rapper Cardi B . Mamdani is teaming up with the Bronx native to launch a jingle contest to promote the application date (June 2), inviting New Yorkers to contribute their ideas. “Cardi’s going to help you,” Mamdani said in th…

Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback told a Black man who confronted him on the campaign trail that he should be lynched. Yes, you read that right. Lynching is the process of extrajudicial murder by mob, usually by hanging. Throughout U.S. history, Black people have been the most frequent victims of lynchings by white mobs. The comment occurred after Fishback was confronted a…

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas was asked by the mouth breathers at Fox Business what the next U.S. attorney general ’s agenda should be. His answer made one thing clear: The pretend maverick is now fully in line with the Trump administration—all the way down to covering up the Epstein files . “We've got to deal with things like antifa,” Roy said. “We wanna see people who are affiliated with th…

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon . NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century . The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule’s windows. The second shows the entire globe with the…

A United States F-15E was shot down in Iran on Friday, according to U.S. officials. Early reports are that at least one of the two service members has been rescued and is receiving medical treatment. Fox News, typically reliant on scripted monologues written in demon blood, went into overdrive trying to soften the blow of President Donald Trump’s costly Middle Eastern war. “For 50 years president…

Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice is attacking the real enemy: recordkeeping requirements. Yes, Trump just got his pet at the Office of Legal Counsel, T. Elliot Gaiser, to whip up a very aggro opinion saying that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. Such a great look to have a presidential appointee just baldly declaring that the law requiring the president to k…

Executing on President Donald Trump’s vision of white male supremacy, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is personally blocking advancement of Black and female military leaders, undoing decades of progress in America’s armed services. NBC News reported on Thursday that more than a dozen officers slated for promotion across all four branches of the military have been blocked by Hegseth. An anonymou…