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Attorney General Pam Bondi is out , baby. And now, it’s Todd time. Todd Blanche, current deputy attorney general and now incoming acting attorney general, is—like so many others—one of President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorneys. He represented Trump in the classified documents case, the Jan. 6 case, and the hush money New York State case. That last one didn’t work out so well for …

During almost three decades of living in Georgia’s conservative northwest corner, Kimberly Seals got used to keeping her liberal opinions to herself. She suspected there were others who felt the same way, but she had no way to know for sure. So on a recent Saturday afternoon, she gazed in amazement at the crowd of hundreds who gathered in the town of Rome to hear Pete Buttigieg stump for long-sho…

Anything Don can do, Ron can do smaller. Meet the Florida SAVE Act , the state’s version of President Donald Trump’s voter suppression bill . But where Trump hasn’t landed enough GOP support, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did—so he signed the bill on Wednesday. In the thinnest of silver linings, it doesn’t go into effect until after the midterms, unlike Trump’s absurd executive order purporting to co…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump whines about Springsteen hours after Iran war speech flops The Boss and the baby. Pam Bondi fired Wonder which sycophantic monster will replace her. ‍♀️ GOP senator freaks over Supreme Court respecting the Constitution Republicans hate the Constitution—except when it conveniences th…

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President Donald Trump sure knows how to lose friends and alienate people—including French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife. On Wednesday, Trump mocked the French family, saying, “I call up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” That was an apparent reference to a viral video from May 2025 in which Brigitte Macron appears to shove…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George, to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday, as the United States wages a war against Iran. A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed that George has been asked to take early retirement from the post of Army chief of staff, which he has held since Au…

Lara Trump, noted nepo-singer and President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, was on Fox News Thursday to cheer on the destructive war in Iran—by marveling at its destruction. “You want to talk about what the United States of America can do? Take a look at this video,” she said over footage purporting to show a U.S. strike on a bridge in Karaj , Iran. “Take a look at all the videos he's posted of t…

A Colorado appeals court ruled Thursday that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that sought to prove fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced because a judge wrongly punished her for statements protected as free speech. Tina Peters is serving a nine-year prison term after being convicted of state crimes for sneaking in an outside computer expert to make a copy of her…

GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania appeared on Newsmax Thursday, where he turned the tables on Democrats by claiming that they’re responsible for the government funding mess under a GOP-controlled Congress. “Unfortunately, the future for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and Border Patrol—this is what it looks like under Democrat-led government or Democrat-participating government,” Perry b…