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I caused a great deal of commotion yesterday with the unfortunately titled piece, “Why Democrats need their own Trump.” Many people understandably never got past the headline. The point wasn’t that Democrats need a Trump-like figure. It was that Trump has exposed just how much power the presidency actually has once you stop treating norms and traditions as untouchable. But others read the…

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As Taylor Swift prepares to marry towering Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, the Grammy-winning megastar might have decided to do so on a date that would put President Donald Trump to shame. The president’s makeup-covered hands have been full with piecing together “Freedom 250” events to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. On a musical note, those efforts once included a concern…

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The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has lost 30% of its purchasing power since 2009. By Kevin Hardy for Stateline Workers in more than 20 cities and states will see the minimum wage increase next month as local governments continue to raise the wage floor amid federal inaction. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has not increased since 2009, losing more than 30%

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Donald Trump is the most effective president in my lifetime. There, I said it. Not because he’s accomplished good things. Quite the opposite. I can’t think of a single thing he’s done to improve the country. But effectiveness isn’t the same thing as benevolence. And by any objective measure, Trump has been extraordinarily effective at using the power of the presidency to get what he wants.

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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. Trump almost makes this horrible industry sympathetic Is there anyone Trump hasn’t pissed off? Mamdani’s got Trump and Fox News big mad Yet another sign of an incoming blue wave … Susan Collins helped overturn Roe. That’s coming back to haunt her. Luckily…

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

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The Supreme Court, as per usual, has saved the worst for last, with a big stack of cases remaining—too many of which are about whether President Donald Trump can continue dismantling democracy. Indeed, The New York Times’ tracker of remaining cases has an entire section called “Trump’s Agenda.” Yikes. All of the dozen cases that have yet to be decided are big…

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FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend and wannabe country singer Alexis Wilkins just got added to the lineup for tonight’s extremely prestigious Freedom 250 rally starring President Donald Trump—and she wants you to know that she totally got there on merit. After the Freedom 250 music festival collapsed spectacularly—with artists racing to wipe their names from the garbage—Trump declared that…

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President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a bill signing ceremony Wednesday for a landmark bipartisan housing bill that aims to make it more affordable to buy a home, saying he won’t sign it because Congress has yet to pass his voter suppression bill. “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT…

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President Donald Trump berated Senate Republicans during a visit to the Capitol Wednesday for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt. Invited to speak at the GOP luncheon by Florida Sen. Rick Scott, Trump had signaled ahead of time that…

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Congratulations to Donald Trump, the first and only president to have both chambers of Congress pass a War Powers Resolution against him. That’s quite the achievement! It’s a testament to how little support there is for Trump’s war in Iran that enough members of his own party peeled off and voted with Democrats, handing him what the media keeps calling a rebuke, framing it as nothing more…

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Amid an influenza outbreak, major branches of the U.S. military are reinstating mandatory flu vaccines for recruits just over two months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threw out the longstanding policy. ABC News reported on Tuesday that recruits for the Army, Navy, and Air Force will be required to take flu shots, and that the Air Force now has set the goal of vaccinating all…

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A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago…

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It’s been four years to the day since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, paving the way for Republican-controlled states to ban abortion—actions that have caused pain, suffering, and even death for pregnant people unable to obtain necessary medical care. The Supreme Court ruling was made possible by Republicans like Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who abandoned her previously stated…

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After progressive candidates swept to victory in New York City on Tuesday night, running on platforms directly opposed to conservative Republicans and Donald Trump, the right reacted with fury. Candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won a clean sweep, defeating centrists who had more support with the Democratic Party establishment. These candidates openly opposed many of the core ideas…

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Leave it to President Donald Trump to make oil companies sympathetic. On Wednesday, the wannabe dictator ordered the Department of Justice to investigate oil companies because he’s angry they have not immediately lowered fuel prices following his surrender to Iran. “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying…

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

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Immigrants who experience human rights abuses by the U.S. government already face a mountain of challenges in seeking justice—but the Supreme Court just made that legal road even more difficult. In their ruling blitz to get out as many decisions as possible before taking off for their summer break, justices sided with Cisco Systems on Tuesday in a case filed on behalf of the Falun Gong…

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