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Cosplay queen Noem’s reign is over—and everyone’s rejoicing If you haven’t already heard, puppy killer Kristi Noem has been fired from her position as Homeland Security secretary.� Noem was an easily identifiable villain, epitomizing the corruption and ...

Take the joy where you can get it these days. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

06.03.2026 01:14 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Stephen Miller sinks to new level of white supremacy President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller spoke at the Americas Counter Cartel Conference Thursday, addressing an audience of defense and security leaders from the Caribbean, ...

Ghoul shit.
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05.03.2026 22:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran war proves Trump is still at the ‘concept of a plan’ stage President Donald Trump hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House on Tuesday, where the two took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. Trump seemed to have far less enthusiasm ....

No idea what they're doing.
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03.03.2026 23:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Warren slams Trump stooge for being ‘accomplice in his corruption’ Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould testified before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday, where ranking member Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of ...

Get em.
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26.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's kooky surgeon general pick withers under mild scrutiny Health influencer Casey Means , President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, brought her inactive medical license to a Senate hearing Wednesday, where she promoted the feel-good ...

Con land.
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25.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Lawyer who took down tariffs trolls Trump Neal Katyal, the attorney who successfully challenged the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies before the Supreme Court, spoke with CNBC Monday morning about the victory. While he ...

Hitting Trump in his ego.
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23.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Lara Trump touts ‘most transparent president’ as he kicks out press Fox News viewers were given a crash course in what “transparency” looks like in the Trump administration on Friday. Taking time away from deluding herself into believing she earned her status in ...

Perfect.
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20.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Border czar happy to stab Kristi Noem in the back The power struggle within President Donald Trump’s immigration regime seems to be heating up.� Border czar Tom Homan appeared on CNN Friday morning, where host Sara Sidner asked him to defend ...

Popcorn time.
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20.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's terrible adviser touts 'perfect' economy Previously convicted Trump economic adviser Pete Navarro appeared on Fox Business Tuesday armed with a big bag of propaganda. Navarro, who has never been right about a ...

Deluded.
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17.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Watch AOC shine on the world stage Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told the Munich Security Conference on Friday exactly why the world is seeing a rise in autocrat-friendly populism.� “I think one of the ...

More of this.
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14.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Pam Bondi loses her sh-t at Epstein hearing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday went off the rails shortly after Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington asked Jeffrey Epstein’s survivo...

Train wreck is too mellow a phrase for how Bondi's appearance went.
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11.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Watch Trump's inept Commerce chief squirm over Epstein ties Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, ostensibly to discuss broadband funding. But Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland opened his questioning by .....

Did i say “disgusted?” I meant having-lunch-on-his-island.
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10.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Trump world, bad jobs data means things are great Things are going so well under President Donald Trump’s economic policies that there are now fewer jobs available or being created! At least, that is how Kevin Hassett, director of the National ...

Trump administration on dwindling jobs report? The rich are still doing well!
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09.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoy watching JD Vance get booed at the Olympics opening ceremony Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance were met with a whole lot of boos from an international crowd during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics, after the couple appeared on ....

Worth the price of admission .
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07.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Treasury secretary gets eaten alive by Elizabeth Warren Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Thursday. Having been publicly embarrassed during a hearing the ...

Aging Howdy Doody.
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06.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tennessee Democrat trolls MAGA's knockoff Super Bowl halftime show Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones spoke on the Statehouse floor Thursday, delivering what he called a "public service announcement for the Republican side of the aisle.”� Jones ...

Fun stuff.
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06.02.2026 00:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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23 years ago: Colin Powell lied to launch a bogus war On Feb. 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the United Nations Security Council was built around the unfounded claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was concealing ...

Never forget.
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05.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'Did you lie?': Democrat humiliates Trump's treasury secretary Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proved no match for Democratic Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois during a House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. Casten tangled up the aging Howdy Doody ...

The exchange left the secretary such a bumbling mess that Rep. French Hill of Arkansas, the Republican chair of the committee, had to step in to end Bessent’s humiliation www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

04.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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JD Vance’s latest take on Alex Pretti killing will enrage you During an interview with Daily Mail, Vice President JD Vance refused to say whether he would apologize to the family of Alex Pretti if an investigation found that Pretti’s civil rights were violated w...

It's a talent to be this unlikable.
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04.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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House speaker says ICE is allowed to break down your door House Speaker Mike Johnson , flanked by GOP leadership, held a press conference ahead of a vote on the ...

"Constitutional" lawyer, Mike Johnson.
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03.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Bernie Sanders holds health official’s feet to the fire on vaccines National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya testified before a Senate committee Tuesday, where Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont quickly cut through the stupor of anti-science rhetoric and .....

Get em.
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03.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let’s all laugh at Fox News anchor’s ridiculous take on ‘Melania’ Former White House press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany went into full propaganda mode Monday, hyping first lady Melania Trump’s new documentary and adding to increasingly ...

Things that necer happened for 2,000.
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03.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Bring it on’: Journalist unfazed by Trump’s Epstein lawsuit threats Journalist Michael Wolff, who says that he possesses more than 100 hours of recorded conversations with Jeffrey Epstein, fired back after President Donald Trump threatened to sue him for reporting ...

Yes, please.
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02.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Shady new ad campaign paints ICE thugs as ‘friends and neighbors’ A conservative group is launching what it claims to be a multimillion-dollar ad campaign meant to convince the American public that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is to be trusted, despite its .....

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02.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 57    🔁 23    💬 6    📌 3

Wow, buckle up.

The early vote just came in Tarrant County, and Democrat Taylor Rehmet is up 56% to 44% in the special election for a Texas state Senate seat.

This is a seat that went for Trump by 17%. This would be a huge upset.

This is already 45K votes.

01.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 5025    🔁 1007    💬 101    📌 131
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Trump says ‘silent majority’ supports his campaign of terror President Donald Trump held a press conference Friday to offer up yet another�fact-free retelling of recent history. “Elections have consequences. The people want law and order, and we have a ...

Surreal.
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30.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Can't afford a house? Too bad, says Trump. During a predictably uninformative Cabinet meeting Thursday, President Donald Trump offered up some monumentally worthless remarks about the cost of housing in the United States. “Existing housing,

I guess we can all start collecting cans.
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30.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Watch Pete Hegseth kiss Trump's ass with insane fervor During President Donald Trump's Thursday Cabinet meeting , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lavished praise on Dear Leader. Describing the raid in Venezuela to kidnap Nicolás ...

Delusional.
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29.01.2026 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Alex Pretti killing forces Rand Paul to make sense for once Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky admitted his eyesight is good enough to see that Immigration and Customs Enforcements agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was not justified.� During a ...

Broken clock and all.
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29.01.2026 20:22 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Bruce Springsteen releases Minnesota protest song Rock legend Bruce Springsteen released a new protest song in the wake of the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of President Donald Trump’s Immigration thugs in ...

The Boss. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

29.01.2026 01:46 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0