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A super PAC tied to Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced its midterm spending plan Monday, saying it plans to reserve $342 million in television advertising to preserve the GOP's Senate majority. “Thanks to the tremendous successes of Senate Republicans and Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Leadership Fund is better positioned than ever to execute an aggressive offensive strategy to prote…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. NY Times once again caught sanewashing Trump’s unhinged rhetoric “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” - President of the United States Will firing more Cabinet members fix Trump's popularity problem? We might be stuck in a nightmare, but at least Tru…

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The Department of Justice just filed an emergency motion to stay U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s preliminary injunction stopping construction on the big dumb ballroom, and if you ever wondered what it would be like if Truth Social allowed for 5,000-word posts, wonder no more. This thing is a President Donald Trump social media screed dressed up as a legal brief. This filing seeking to stay Jud…

Republican lawmakers caught some attention this weekend when they shared a purported image of a rescued U.S. service member who was piloting an F-15 that was shot down over Iran. There was just one teeny, glaring, major problem—the image was entirely AI-generated. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and New York Rep. Mike Lawler all circulated the fake photo before backtrac…

President Donald Trump can’t get enough of issuing executive orders about sports. Sure, an executive order is just a piece of paper and has no force of law, but since no one will tell him that, here we are. While people tuned in to the Women’s Final Four college basketball games Friday night, Trump was busy banging out his executive order , “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports.” Minneso…

If President Donald Trump wanted to make the case that there’s no reason for Congress to consider invoking the 25th Amendment , he undermined it bigly during his latest press briefing on the Iran war. “Your messaging on the war has moved from ‘the war is coming to an end’ to ‘we're going to be bombing Iran to the Stone Ages,’” one reporter said about Trump’s shifting motives and timeline. “So whi…

Republicans hoping to take over California’s gubernatorial seat, which the GOP has not held since 2011, may have been dealt a severe blow thanks to President Donald Trump and his obsession with Fox News Channel. Steve Hilton speaks during the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Feb. 3 in San Francisco. Early on Monday morning Trump posted on social media that he is endorsing Republican c…

Frustrated with their leadership and bracing for bruising midterm losses , House Republicans are chattering about replacing Speaker Mike Johnson if they lose the majority in November. But before anyone basks in schadenfreude, know that the replacement looks like it could be—somehow—leaps and bounds worse . House Speaker Mike Johnson Politico reported Monday that Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who made …

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Last year, President Donald Trump turned the annual White House Easter Egg Roll into a cauldron of corporate sponsorships. And this time around, Trump subjected the children in attendance to his petty grievances. “Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala [Harris]?” Trump asked. “A low IQ—she's a low IQ person. Who's a lower IQ person, [Joe] Biden or Kamala? That's probably the toughest que…

When Elon Musk swept in to wreck our democracy last year, he brought with him his own private security detail. Rather than tell Musk’s rent-a-cop randos to get gone or assign Musk security from actual trained federal personnel, this administration took a more novel approach: Just have the U.S. Marshals deputize Musk’s security team as federal agents. Problem solved! Sure, Musk’s security personne…