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Former DOGE bro is now running the Pentagon's AI. What could go wrong? In the middle of a war where Anthropic’s “Claude” AI is playing a central role in attacking Iran while also simultaneously being branded a supply chain risk that the Trump ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has put 26-year-old DOGE alum Gavin Kliger in charge of AI initiatives at the Pentagon.

He was writing Substack posts about the “deep state” not long ago. 😬

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Trump’s plan to turn DC into Mar-a-Lago 2.0 hits a snag So it turns out that even packing the National Capital Planning Commission with cronies wasn’t enough to get President Donald Trump’s big, dumb ballroom approved.� The NCPC was planning to vote ...

More than 35,000 comments poured in on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom—97% against it.

The approval vote suddenly needs “more time.”

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Comic ✍️: The downward spiral
By Tom Tomorrow

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Step 1: Stop the beheadings.
Step 2: Focus on infrastructure.

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Trump’s uniquely unpopular war on Iran Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. You almost ...

Polls show just 39% of Americans support President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, while about 50% oppose them.

Wars usually start with a surge of support. This one didn’t.

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Why spineless Republicans refuse to call Trump’s war in Iran a war Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republican ...

Republican lawmakers spent the week arguing Trump’s bombing campaign in Iran isn’t a “war”—just a “conflict.”

Trump himself has already called it a war. 🙄

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“Deputy Speaker Mike Johnson tried to quietly push sexual harasser Tony Gonzales through his primary out of fear of defending a Neo-Nazi. Now Gonzales is gone and House Republicans have added another casualty to their massive retirement list.”

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Best cartoons from the worst timeline: Iran war edition Well, it finally happened. President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran that Republicans long warned would only happen if Kamala Harris were elected president. Now, as Iranian residents ...

Republicans spent months warning that Kamala Harris would start a war with Iran. President Donald Trump launched one this weekend.

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How Republicans keep screwing up their wars Explaining the Right � is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. The Trump administration’s war on ...

Trump went to war with Iran. The administration’s rationale has shifted repeatedly since the bombs started falling. Go figure.

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Bad times make for busy judges Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. It’s another week of U.S. courts ...

The courts are having a week.

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Clips of the week: Trump bombs Iran and boots Kristi Noem It’s been quite the week. President Donald Trump started a war with Iran, the GOP proved it sucks at investigating anything, and Kristi Noem ...

I mean it really was a crazy week.

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The administration can’t be both all-powerful and a little, helpless baby. It’s time to pay up.

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Trump's dumb war and his dysfunctional Cabinet secretaries Every week on Daily Kos, certain stories rise above the rest. Not just because they’re outrageous or entertaining, but because together they tell a bigger story about the political moment we’re ...

A war in Iran, Republican infighting, and another round of Trump headlines. Meanwhile Democrats are quietly building a path to November. 👀

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Comic ✍️: XXX files
By Clay Jones

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How the flood of retiring Republicans signals a growing blue wave Skeezy GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas announced late Thursday night that he ...

Texas Republican Tony Gonzales is dropping his reelection bid, raising the number of House GOP retirements or exits to 34.

That’s exactly where Republicans stood in 2018—the year they lost the House.

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Watch Obama’s moving tribute to the late Jesse Jackson Former President Barack Obama delivered powerful remarks Friday during a public memorial to celebrate the late Rev. Jesse Jackson . “We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope,” Obama ...

Barack Obama honored Rev. Jesse Jackson at a memorial Friday, saying his voice continues to call people to “be heralds of change” and “messengers of hope.”

Watch below in case you missed it 👇

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First Putin killed American elections. Now he’s helping kill Americans.

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Trump has the power to do anything—except pay back tariffs, apparently When President Donald Trump imposed tariffs hither, thither, and yon, he was a colossus striding across the world—America First, the toughest country you know.� But now that it’s time to give ...

A federal trade court says the Trump administration must refund tariffs to about 333,000 importers, with interest.

Lol.

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After Noem, which Trump crony should be thrown out next? On Wednesday, President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem from her position as secretary of Homeland Security. A day later her rumored paramour and longtime Trump aide Corey Lewandowski was also…

President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary. By the next day, Corey Lewandowski was out too.

Who's next?

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Trump stooges blame abysmal jobs report on the weather—yes, really Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett hit the airwaves Friday to spin yet another month of terrible jobs numbers . Both had the same talking points,

The economy lost jobs again.

Kevin Hassett says the numbers make sense once you account for weather, strikes, and averages. Okay, dude.

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FCC bozo aims his nationalist weirdness at call centers Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has a new idea , and it’s one that might sound fine at first but is really just straight-up racism and America First blather.� Carr ...

Your hold music may soon come with a location disclosure.

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Comic ✍️: Affordability solved
By Mike Luckovich

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Republican senator pulls some sh-t by anointing his successor Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana pulled a bait-and-switch on GOP primary voters on Wednesday, withdrawing his name from the ballot minutes before the filing deadline and thus denying ...

Democracy hates this one weird trick.

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DOJ drops the ball(point) in making up case against Biden The Department of Justice has reportedly given up on pursuing a criminal case over Joe Biden’s use of an autopen during his presidency. President Donald Trump has spent months pushing conspiracy…

Trump won’t be happy about this one.

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RFK Jr.'s newest nemesis: Iced coffee Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gearing up for war. No, not the Iran war . He’s picking a fight on the domestic front … with Dunkin’ Donuts. Yes, the largest ...

America famously hates sugar, so this should be an easy victory for Secretary Brain Worm.

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Ken Paxton doubles down, adding to GOP's Texas fears Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday said not even President Donald Trump could push him out of the Texas Senate contest, telling a right-wing cable news show that he still plans to stay in the…

Let them fight.

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Daily Kos endorses James Talarico for US Senate in Texas On Tuesday, in one of the most closely watched Senate primaries of the cycle, Democratic voters nominated Texas state Rep. James Talarico to take on whichever Republican emerges from the toxic GOP ...

Is this the year we finally flip the Lone Star State?

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The ‘peace’ president can’t stop starting wars While all eyes are on the war in Iran, which is rapidly spiraling out of control with no real plan for what comes next, the Trump administration decided that now is a great time to kick off another…

What better time to launch a war than in the middle of another war?

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ICE Barbie gets frozen out by Trump You can get away with a lot as a member of the Trump administration. You can be objectively bad at your job—looking at you, U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro. You can be stupid enough…

Couldn’t have happened to a worse person.

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'Death and destruction': Hegseth can't contain his bloodlust On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unleashed a second bloodlust-filled briefing about President Donald Trump’s war on Iran.� Hegseth touted the administration’s escalating bombing ...

Things you don’t want to hear from our military’s top commander: “We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.”

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