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The Conservative Political Action Conference—the annual gathering of right-wing creeps—kicked off on Thursday, with a number of Republican politicians and activists slated to speak to the crowd of mouth-breathing losers. CPAC chair Matt Schlapp said he hopes this year's four-day gathering will bring the MAGA back together, as it's currently being torn apart by President Donald Trump’s war in Iran…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. 46 years ago, the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed A lot has gone wrong since then. Trump pardoned Michael Flynn—and now you’re paying him $1.2 million There is definitely some “historic injustice” going on with this. Florida GOP gets cold feet about rigging House map It stinks when y…

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During President Donald Trump’s reliably bizarre Cabinet meeting on Thursday, he tried to preempt criticism of his own use of mail-in voting for a special election in Florida , after years of railing against the practice as fraudulent. “You know why?” Trump said when asked. “Because I'm president of the United States and because of the fact that I'm president of the United States, I did a mail-in…

Is there nothing that President Donald Trump won’t wreck? While he’s clearly out to wreck the United States writ large, he is also carrying out ceaseless aesthetic attacks on the White House and just about everywhere else in Washington, D.C. Trump’s latest remodel idea displays his usual reverence for history. He’s kicking around the idea of getting rid of the White House Treaty Room and replacin…

It looks like talk show host and comedian Bill Maher will be receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, despite a strong initial denial from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is fake news. Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award,” Leavitt told The Washington Post on March 20 in response to a report by The Atlantic . Now, the onetime host of “Politically Incorrect” who …

President Donald Trump made an exceedingly Trumpy appearance at a National Republican Congressional Committee event on Wednesday, where he unveiled his newest genius plan to ensure he is never stopped by those pesky lower courts: arrest the judges. Sure, that might sound unhinged to you, but that’s because you are not an out-of-the-box thinker like Trump: “The time has also come for Republicans t…

President Donald Trump and the dunces in his administration are trying to gin up support for the disastrous war in Iran, which is quickly spiraling into a boondoggle as fuel shortages are beginning to hit across the globe and the threat of an inflation-fueled economic collapse grows. During a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Trump warped reality by saying that he's "the opposite of desperate" to stop th…

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President Donald Trump held one of his emperor-has-no-clothes Cabinet meetings on Thursday, opening with a fantasy State of the Union-style address in the wake of his faltering war in Iran and partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. He claimed the U.S. is “extremely, really, a lot ahead of schedule” in Iran—despite reports that the administration has quietly stretched the timelin…

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to bio…