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The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government met again on Wednesday. The committee, chaired by none other than circus hearing holder Rep. Jim Jordan, received the perfect amount of scorn from the ranking Democrat, Rep. Stacey Plaskett.

House Speaker Mike Johnson joins the clown show at Trump’s trial

He has nothing better to do?

The more voters know, the more they like Joe Biden

Getting to know Joe could make all the difference in November.

House GOP has a new way to suck up to Trump: Give him a gold medal

They actually think he deserves the same medal as the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.

Cartoon: Cookie Monster

Clarence Thomas gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar again. Читать дальше...

The first Congressional Gold Medal was struck in 1776 as a way of saying thanks to George Washington. Since then, the medal has been awarded just 184 times to hallowed figures including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. Compared to the 647 civilian Presidential Medals of Freedom or the 3,517 military Medals of Honor, the Congressional Gold Medal is the rarest of the great honors awarded in America.

A cartoon by Clay Jones.

The House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are holding hearings Thursday to consider holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. The Department of Justice has refused to provide recordings of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden and his ghostwriter in the classified documents probe, having already provided the transcripts of those interviews. 

Missing: Rudolph “Rudy” William Louis Giuliani 

Age: 79. Height: 5 feet, 9 inches (5 feet, 11 inches when being booked by police in Georgia). Hair: Runny. Eyes: Nutty. Identifying characteristics: A tendency to hang around lawn care centers across from porn shops, and plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government.

In April, a grand jury indicted Giuliani and 17 others in a scheme to substitute fake Donald Trump electors for the real Joe Biden electors in Arizona. Since then, all... Читать дальше...

When Rick Scott was first running for statewide office in Florida in 2010, he made a mea culpa ad to blunt attacks from his opponents about the massive Medicare fraud he presided over as CEO of a major health care company.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he will not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades and instead proposed two debates with former President Donald Trump to be held earlier in the year.

The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.

Like many Americans, I marvel at the speed with which we went from the historic election of Barack Obama to the brink of fascism. But this moment of reactionary politics goes well beyond that historical first and now seems to permeate every aspect of life, anywhere some degree of social progress has been achieved.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet.

Downballot primaries continue tonight with races in Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, and West Virginia! Polls close at 7:30 PM ET in North Carolina and West Virginia, followed by Maryland at 8 PM ET and Nebraska at 9 PM ET.

A cartoon by Pedro Molina. 

Jury selection for Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial began Monday, and “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart broke down the allegations against him. The New Jersey senator and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is accused of taking bribes from three businessmen, among other crimes. The evidence against Menendez includes 13 gold bars seized by authorities during a raid of his home 

New York Times political analyst Nate Cohn made an astute observation about a new Siena poll, which showed President Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump in most battleground states.