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The Supreme Court improved everyone’s Friday morning—well, everyone except Donald Trump —by dropping the long-awaited decision on tariffs and kneecapping the president’s signature economic policy. The ruling is a sprawling mess, but not nearly as big a mess as the tariffs’ aftermath. Part of why the case is a mess is that not all six justices who ruled to throw out the tariffs agreed on the same …

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Democrats don’t want you to forget the cost of Trump’s dumb tariffs Trump’s tariffs may be gone—but they left behind major damage. ‘Deeply concerned’: Democrats launch probe of Musk’s sex abuse bot Extremely “2026” headline. Trump twerp demands federal prosecutors bend the knee to Dear Le…

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Remember Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s love affair with President Donald Trump? Well, it’s now spectacularly backfiring. In January 2024, O’Brien met privately with then-candidate Trump. Months later, he spoke at the Republican National Convention, complaining about backlash from “the left” and praising Trump as “one tough SOB.” “I travel all across this country and meet with my members ever…

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, low-key one of the worst people in the Trump administration, has a pledge for all you patriot broadcasters as we approach America’s 250th birthday. It’s voluntary— wink, wink! The pledge features the usual burbling about how great it is that our glorious leader, President Donald Trump, is marching us to the semiquincentennial, which will occur…

President Donald Trump held a press conference Friday following a Supreme Court ruling striking down his use of emergency powers to impose tariffs around the world. Trump drifted through what appeared to be a hastily cobbled together statement denouncing the Supreme Court and other loose thoughts—which seems to be his signature approach to his second term. "Tariffs have likewise been used to end …

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky argued on Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision to rebuke President Donald Trump on tariffs was really a huge loss for “future President” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s purported plan to make America socialist. And Fox News agreed with him. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which have weighed on the economy, are illegal. Instead, the c…

Fox News viewers were given a crash course in what “transparency” looks like in the Trump administration on Friday. Taking time away from deluding herself into believing she earned her status in government on merit, Lara Trump appeared on the network to declare that her father-in-law is the most transparent president ever. “When the American people wanted more information on the MLK files, on JFK…

President Donald Trump's ridiculous , corrupt , and possibly illegal $400 million ballroom project got approval from one of two necessary committees on Thursday, when an advisory panel Trump stacked with a bunch of unqualified yesmen concluded their so-called review process and gave a final okay for the plans. Trump appointed all seven of the members of the Commission of Fine Arts, which approved…

The power struggle within President Donald Trump’s immigration regime seems to be heating up. Border czar Tom Homan appeared on CNN Friday morning, where host Sara Sidner asked him to defend Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s outrageous description of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis, as a “domestic terrorist.” “We all watched the video,” Sidner sai…

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have launched an investigation into conservative billionaire Elon Musk and his company’s creation and distribution of nonconsensual sexualized imagery—which includes images of children. Reps. Frank Pallone (NJ), Jan Schakowsky (IL) and Yvette Clark (NY) sent a letter on Thursday to Musk, who operates as the CEO of xAI, the parent company of X a…