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Vice President JD Vance speaks to the press following a tour of the multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 20, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DC residents call Vance "couch f**ker"

Garrett Owen
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk's third party isn't happening

Garrett Owen
Democratic Texas Rep. Mihaela Plesa tears her Department of Public Safety escort form during a news conference outside of the House chamber in the State Capitol on August 19, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas Democrats reject police escorts

Garrett Owen
People shop at a retail store in New York. Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, the biggest monthly increase since June 2022. (Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Wake up, Dems: Hammer Trump on inflation

Austin Sarat
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First Lady Melania Trump departs the White House with President Donald Trump. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The weird sexism of Melania's Putin plea

Amanda Marcotte
National Guardsmen are surrounded by thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C., on August 16, 2025. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump setting stage for Kent State 2.0

Charles R. Davis
Trump and Putin meet in Alaska for supposed peace talks. No resolution, a brief no-question press conference, and maybe Moscow next time. Zelenskyy noticeably absent and uninvited to meet Trump next week. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

What peace looks like to Putin and Trump

Ronald Suny - The Conversation
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

House will release redacted Epstein docs

Alex Galbraith
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A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Is "clanker" a slur?

Alex Galbraith
The Texas State Capitol is seen during a Texas Senate flooding committee hearing at the State Capitol. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas Rep. holds protest sleepover

Blaise Malley
California Governor Gavin Newsom holds a news conference in Downey, California, on July 16, 2025. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gavin Newsom’s Trump act riles Fox host

Blaise Malley
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks about California redistricting plans at a press conference at the Democracy Center, Japanese American Museum on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Dems can't win the redistricting wars

Russell Payne
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First Lady Melania Trump attends a roundtable discussion at the Capitol. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Interpreting Melania's letter to Putin

Jason Kyle Howard
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Democrats need New Deal-style politics

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump outflanks Dems with DC takeover

Chauncey DeVega
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli participates in a campaign event with local residents on October 27, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The NJ GOP makes a pitch to Black voters

Garrett Owen
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a summit on transforming mental health treatment to combat homelessness, violence and substance abuse at the White House. ((Photo by BrendanPhoto by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Mental health care atrophies under Trump

Maya Miller, Jeremy Kohler - ProPublica
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump jokes about cancelling election

Alex Galbraith
A Newsmax microphone is seen during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsmax settles Dominion defamation suit

Garrett Owen
Mail-in ballots are seen at the Los Angeles County Registrar vote by mail operation center in City of Industry, California, on November 4, 2022, for the midterm elections on November 8. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump vows to "get rid" of mail-in votes

Garrett Owen
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Donald Trump, taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Image)

Why MAGA calls Trump "Daddy"

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Martin Luther King, Jr. (Reuters/Rick Wilking/AP/Bill Ingraham/Salon)

Trump is spitting on MLK's grave

Clarence Lusane - TomDispatch.com
Confederate Flag Displayed With Us Flag On Front Porch Near Window, Backroads Of Virginia, October 26, 2016. (Photo by Joe Sohm/Getty Images)

Being white in the South is complicated

James M. Thomas - The Conversation
LA Mayor Karen Bass and other Black mayors push back against President Donald Trump's claims that their cities are now "lawless." These cities are actually seeing major decreases in violent crime this year. (MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News / Getty Images)

Black Mayors vs Trump’s “lawless” claims

CK Smith
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