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President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night, offering an update on the war in Iran during his first prime-time speech since launching strikes alongside Israel more than a month ago. With the speech, Trump was getting a wide audience to articulate clear objectives for the war that could attempt to reconcile weeks of changing goals and often contradictory messages about whether he’s…

Torching the constitutional separation of powers, President Donald Trump showed up at the Supreme Court for arguments over one of his major policy goals: eradicating birthright citizenship. Needless to say, he couldn’t be arsed to stay for the whole thing. Come on, a full two hours without being in front of a camera? Without being able to talk? He was never gonna make it. He stuck around only for…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump floats quitting NATO after it won’t endorse his warmongering He even name-checks his favorite dictator. Now the scumbag Jan. 6 insurrectionists want you to pay them Hey, they were just trying to violently overturn an election. Hegseth cool with Army helicopter stunt at Kid Rock's ho…

Decades from now, historians will be trying to figure out why a conspiracy theorist was put in charge of a critical disaster-relief office in the U.S. and why said conspiracy theorist claimed he had been involuntarily teleported multiple times, including to a Waffle House 50 miles away. We live in the dumbest timeline. President Donald Trump tapped Mr. Teleportation, aka Gregg Phillips, for a hig…

Teenagers are doing stupid things on spring break, and Fox News wants its audience to blame the Democratic Party. Specifically, Fox hosts are saying mayhem from rowdy teens is the fault of former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. Somehow. On Wednesday’s edition of “Outnumbered,” the conservative network’s panel show formulated as a knockoff of “The View,” host Harris…

NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission is set to launch Wednesday, and suddenly, the dopes over at Fox News are dialing back their usual anti-DEI racism to celebrate the crew’s diversity. “Among the crew are the first woman, first person of color, and first Canadian on a lunar mission,” a Fox host gushed. “So there's a lot of firsts happening here, and all four astronauts will represent the best of huma…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told the viewers of his Tuesday broadcast that it is time to drop President Donald Trump as a leader of the conservative movement, citing failing health and mental decline. YouTube Video Jones said recent images showing Trump’s swollen ankles were evidence of “heart failure” and that “he does look sick.” “He does babble and sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,”…

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is struggling —one might say she can’t even get a jury to indict a ham sandwich . However, she has a plan, and that plan is to complain to Fox News about how the law supposedly limits her ability to prosecute children . “The mentality in D.C. is that, you know, if you're less than 18 years of age, unless you kill somebody or do something really serious, it goes to the …

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Imagine risking your Army career for a washed-up hack like Kid Rock. Because that’s apparently what two Apache helicopter crews decided was a terrific idea, and then they got suspended — Wait a minute. We’re getting word that in the middle of a war, at a time when we are ostensibly engaged in high-stakes negotiations with Iran to bring things to a close, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made time t…

“Oftentimes, you’re the person you’re looking for,” said Leila Staton, an Iowa state House candidate. By Amanda Becker for The 19th Kendra Sullivan was at her family’s cabin in the Allegheny Highlands region in late October “just planning on having a low-key country weekend.” But the cabin has internet, so messages kept coming in about her one-woman No Kings demonstration the prior weekend in Bec…