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Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice isn’t just a tool of vengeance; it’s also well on its way to becoming a ghost town, sparsely populated by true believers and involuntarily reassigned, inexperienced attorneys. But one of their stopgap staffing methods might be coming to an end, thanks to a challenge from a criminal defendant in Minnesota. Paul Johnson, who was arrested durin…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump declares victory after making Iran more powerful than ever Up is down and hot is cold in Trump’s version of reality. Why the latest elections were the most ominous yet for the GOP Democrats notched their biggest overperformances to date in Wisconsin and Georgia. Justice Department z…

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President Donald Trump is being slammed from all sides for his latest TACO , in which he backed down from his horrific threat of genocide in Iran and agreed to a ceasefire that gives Iran more power than it had before the war began. Enter Fox News. A bridge struck by U.S. airstrikes is seen in the town of Karaj, Iran, on April 3. The sycophantic cable "news" channel, which has always been butthur…

The news has been all Iran, all the time, and rightly so, since President Donald Trump has threatened to wipe out the Middle Eastern nation’s civilization only to retreat and give Iran increased power and mad cash . But Trump doesn’t want you to forget about his other obsession: tariffs. It was perhaps inevitable that Trump would find a way to combine his war in Iran with his love of just popping…

On Tuesday, a judge shot down the Trump administration’s efforts to throw out a decades-old court order protecting immigrant children from being intimidated into signing away their rights in ICE custody. Los Angeles District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald rejected the administration’s move to do away with protections that require children the right to a conversation with a parent, relative, or le…

The crap sandwich of a ceasefire deal President Donald Trump made with Iran may have saved Iranians from being wiped off the face of the planet by our genocidal maniacal leader . But it won't save the rest of us from higher prices at the pump —at least not anytime soon. “It’s not a case of you just flick a switch and everything’s back up again,” Martin Houston, a former oil and gas executive, tol…

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Florida Sen. Rick Scott failed at basic history while attempting to denigrate Democrats and excuse President Donald Trump’s threat to commit war crimes against Iran. Appearing on Fox Business on Thursday, Scott was asked about Democrats who have criticized Trump after he said the U.S. would target Iran’s civilian infrastructure, which would be a war crime. “If Democrats were in power when Lincoln…

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has Cassidy Hutchinson in its crosshairs, investigating whether the former White House aide lied to Congress when she testified before the Jan. 6 committee in 2022. If you’re wondering how ginning up perjury charges against Hutchinson, who worked for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is a job for the Civil Rights Division, get in lin…

After the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire on Tuesday night, many of the details appeared to favor Iran’s cause, giving that nation more power in the Middle East than it had before President Donald Trump’s decision to engage in a bombing campaign. Despite this, the Trump administration took a victory lap that seems detached from the reality of the situation. Both countries said they had agreed…

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