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The saga of the big dumb bribe palace of a ballroom at the White House honestly just keeps getting worse. No, this isn’t about President Donald Trump insisting that he’s just going to keep building the ballroom despite a court order saying he can’t, because the ballroom is just a shed on top of a military installation and is therefore necessary for national security. Work continues on a largely d…

GOP Rep. Randy Fine of Florida spewed some racist sentiments about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Newsmax Monday. “Do you still believe that he should be deported because I know you've mentioned that before?” the host asked him. “Absolutely,” Fine replied. “I believe Zoran Mandani lied when he applied for citizenship. I think he was affiliated and supported groups you're not allowed to if …

Donald Trump and his Republican allies have portrayed themselves as champions of tax cutting for middle- and working-class Americans, but millions have seen their taxes increase from a year ago—unless you’re a billionaire. An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that, for all income groups except the richest 5% of Americans, taxes have gone up. The poorest Americans (th…

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As the war in Iran continues to rage and oil and fuel prices continue to climb , Republicans are starting to fear that the clusterfuck Donald Trump started in the Middle East and can't seem to find his way out of will cost them the midterms. “This war in Iran almost cements the fact that we lose the midterms in November—the Senate and House,” an unnamed "person close to the White House" told Poli…

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has weathered a fresh ordeal with President Donald Trump, this time over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, a conflict that does not even involve the world’s biggest military alliance and one it was never consulted about. Since launching the war, Trump has derided U.S. allies as “cowards,” slammed NATO as “a paper tiger” and compared U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to…

Federal workers, who have been under relentless siege since President Donald Trump took office, face a new, gruesome demand: They must give their medical records to the Office of Personnel Management. The agency dropped a quiet little notice in December, saying that it will collect data from federal health care providers. Not much, really, just “medical claims, pharmacy claims, encounter data, an…

Suit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states. By Jerry Redfern for Capital & Main =Oil companies ExxonMobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges. If successful, …

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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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