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How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates His “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons”

As the Trump administration is expected to release investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein later this week, a recent New York Times investigation delves into one of the biggest mysteries about the deceased sexual predator: how the college dropout with no financial training rose through the world of finance and amassed his wealth, which enabled his abuse and insulated him from scrutiny for decades.

Seriously? The Trump-Kennedy Center?

President Donald Trump’s loyalist board of trustees voted Thursday to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, placing Trump’s name alongside the Democratic-era president. 

From now on, the venue will officially be called the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” the White House announced.

Rescheduling Marijuana Is an Enormous Mistake

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that committed the Justice Department to “rescheduling” marijuana. Although the order won’t legalize pot, it will relax a series of restrictions that the federal government has long enforced. The move has a broad coalition of supporters, including many progressives, who say that it will enable medical research and alleviate mass incarceration.

Trump regime’s creepy obsession with kids’ genitals continues

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it is acting to effectively ban gender-affirming care, and they couldn’t seem to do so without senior officials making strange statements about children’s genitals.

The administration hopes to cut off funding for hospitals providing care from Medicaid and Medicare if they provide gender-affirming care, though the proposals that were announced are not final or legally binding

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Watch Trump’s dumbest adviser fail at basic math

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick served a heaping bowl of rationalization during an appearance on Fox News while attempting to explain President Donald Trump’s ongoing insistence that he single-handedly brought pharmaceutical drug prices down by mathematically impossible amounts.

During his nationally televised screaming address Wednesday night, Trump insisted he had cut drug prices by “400, 500, and even 600 percent.”

Even Fox News host John Roberts wasn’t buying it.

When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough

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After his death, James Garfield got the full Horatio Alger treatment. As well he should have. Garfield, who died in September 1881 from an assassin’s bullet and his own doctors’ staggeringly inept care, really did rise, as Alger’s book phrased it, From Canal Boy to President.

Guess the Real Trump ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ Plaque

Donald Trump has now installed descriptive plaques under all the portraits that line his “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the White House. If you wonder whether they are petty, but also deeply strange and erratically capitalized, the answer is: Yes! Of course!
Surely they cannot really be that bad, you say. All right. See if you can guess the real ones! Then scroll to the bottom for the answer key.
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The Recap: Trump rewrites presidential history, and Hegseth tries making religion manly

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.

For Pete’s sake! Hegseth wants to make spirituality manly again?

We certainly wouldn’t want it to nourish the body and soul, now would we?

Trump screams at America that everything is fine

Sometimes if you say the lies louder it makes them come true.

Cartoon: Doesn’t fit

It’s hard to make a victim out of a monster.

Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System

Former immigration judge Tania Nemer, who was fired in February, is now suing the Trump administration, alleging that she was discriminated against despite strong performance reviews. Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges who have been fired or reassigned since Trump took office. The system is notoriously backlogged, with more than 3 million cases pending. “I was pulled away in the middle of the hearing,” she says.

“Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech

President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says Trump’s aides should be “wondering about the man’s sanity” after Wednesday’s speech. “This is utterly divorced from reality.