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Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson has pivoted from his cringeworthy praise of President Donald Trump as a “daddy” who would administer spankings to his political rivals to now referring to the president as “weak” following his Iran war disaster. In an interview with podcaster Jack Neel, Carlson described Trump as “buffoonish” and said he decided to retreat from hostilities in Iran…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Mamdani minces no words over ICE’s threat at the World Cup…

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President Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” is underway on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and it looks more like the ill-fated Fyre Festival than a celebration fit for the United States’ 250th birthday. Thursday was the first full day of the two-week-long fair, and rather than a crowded, lively scene, it was sparsely attended and wrought with problems related to the food and…

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Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term. Bolton, who became an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump after serving in the Republican’s first administration, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 by U.S.

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to allow a wider cancellation of Temporary Protected Status, Venezuelans are grappling with a stark reality: There are only remnants of a country to return back to. On Wednesday, twin earthquakes—the first with a magnitude of 7.2, the second 7.5—centered on the nation’s state of Yaracuy, which is west of its capital, Caracas.

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By Julie Appleby for KFF Sen. Ron Wyden and 14 Democratic co-sponsors introduced legislation Thursday to cap consumers’ potential out-of-pocket costs in traditional Medicare, resurfacing a long-running debate over why the program doesn’t limit beneficiary spending. Even the bill’s backers say securing passage this year is a long shot. But the effort is one more opportunity for…

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What We Fixed This Week What We Are Working On Next Week A Note On Logout Issues On Wednesday, WordPress VIP integrated the patch on their infrastructure that was definitely causing some of the logout issues. It is very important for us to know if you are still seeing problems. If so, please email me at allison@dailykos.com — ideally including the header information from…

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A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Trump threatens to sue over reporting on Reflecting Pool scandal…

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It was a bad, bad week for immigrants at the nation’s highest court, a naked display of power and xenophobia where the Supreme Court conservatives started with their—well, President Donald Trump’s—desired result and worked backward. In a brutal series of 6-3 decisions, the conservatives upended settled law in favor of making Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant crackdown the law of the land.

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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Yes, there is plenty that Democrats can smash We need Democrats who are willing to dismantle systems that concentrate wealth and power. Trump’s pathetic rally shows just how washed he is Trump held what he expected to be a big rally last night. You probably missed it.

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump deflects from Reflecting Pool failure by arresting ‘vandals’…

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Trump was riding high in May after a handful of Republicans he endorsed beat GOP lawmakers whom he deemed to be insufficiently loyal—a sign of the perils of refusing to follow his orders. But in recent weeks, three candidates Trump backed in primaries have lost. And new polls released this week show two other Trump endorsees at risk of meeting that same fate. It’s a tangible sign that…

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A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen states that challenged the Republican president’s order in granting a summary judgment.

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Former President Barack Obama seems a bit weirded out by President Donald Trump’s fixation on him. During an episode of the “All the Smoke” podcast, Obama described Trump’s continual invocation of his name—nearly 10 years after Obama left office—as an “obsession.” “I obviously have a room in his head—a suite in his head,” he joked. Obama went on to note that, during his time as…

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Were you thrumming with anticipation for last night’s big Freedom 250 rally, checking your local TV listings to make sure you wouldn’t miss a moment of FBI Director Kash Patel’s pretend country star girlfriend bellowing out the national anthem? Of course not, because no one watched this thing. Hell, no one even attended this thing. Even The Washington Post, which keeps kissing President…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Trump’s fall guy will deserve all the blowback if Iran deal collapses…

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The White House on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $87.6 billion to cover costs incurred by President Donald Trump’s boondoggle of a war in Iran, as well as to bail out farmers who have been hurt by Trump’s idiotic trade policies, and to fund Trump’s vanity construction projects in Washington, D.C. As for where the $87.6 billion would go, the vast majority ($67.1 billion) would go…

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Less than 24 hours after carrying out the American public’s desires and voting in opposition to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, a pair of Republican senators joined the majority of their party in voting to support the president’s unpopular “excursion.” Previously, Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted alongside Democrats for a war powers…

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A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump threatens to sue over reporting on Reflecting Pool scandal…

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision not to sign a landmark housing bill that was overwhelmingly passed by the House and Senate, saying that he doesn’t want to lower housing costs because it would hurt people who have gotten rich off their home purchases. “You have to understand—I don’t want to hurt people that own houses, too,” Trump said in the Oval Office…

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