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VIDEO OF THE DAY: "Skeezy!" Trump loses Ben Shapiro as luxury jet scandal explodes
Turns out there may actually be a limit to just how much glaring, overt corruption Trump can traffic in before his own sycophants and cheerleaders put down their pom poms and scratch their MAGA-hatted heads. [RETWEET THAT!]

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Trump to visit Qatar on Middle East trip amid backlash over $400 million luxury jet bribe
The MAGA cult leader arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this morning to kick off a weeklong Gulf states visit, as backlash to the cartoonishly problematic, luxury jumbo jet "gift" from the Qatari royal family spread across the political spectrum. Trump started his Middle East tour today with a face-to-face meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will wrap up the run with a drop-in with his Qatari chums in Doha later this week. But seriously, back to that plane. Aside from the painfully obvious security concerns associated with the frickin' president of the United States personally receiving, using, AND keeping a "free" luxury jumbo jet from an ethically dubious oil fiefdom credibly accused of sheltering terror financiers, there's the unfortunate and immutable wrinkle in Donald's timeline. Former US officials have said in plain English it would take the US government BILLIONS of dollars and YEARS of work to refit the plane and make it suitable and secure for a US president to use, and it would not be possible to have it finished before the end of Trump’s term. Either Donald's getting himself fitted for a permanent crown and scepter or this is just another grift where American taxpayers will foot the bill to bankroll the wannabe dictator's obscenely lavish lifestyle after he theoretically leaves office. Either way, hard pass.

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Vulnerable GOP Trump-enabler Susan Collins has a Democratic challenger
Jordan for Maine: Susan Collins is wringing her hands over Trump’s destruction of our Constitution. She says she’s “concerned” but does nothing to stop him. She even voted against his impeachment because, in her words, he had “learned his lesson.” Obviously he hasn’t, but that hasn’t stopped her from looking the other way while he pillages our government. We’ve got a chance to replace Susan Collins and take back the Senate. Democrat Jordan Wood announced he’s running against her to do just that. Jordan’s a fighter who won’t take a DIME of corporate PAC money, so he needs our grassroots support. Will you chip in to help Jordan Wood flip the Senate and defeat Susan Collins?

Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants
Now, we know what you're probably thinking. $21 million to transport a couple dozen migrants seems like a colossal waste of money, but then you're forgetting how fun it is for our 78-year-old nincompoop of a president to say thinks like "GITMO!" and "ALCATRAZ!" out loud and play pretend law-and-order man in front of cameras. You can't put a price tag on that!

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Low-income families would lose, wealthier ones would gain under GOP tax proposals
You will not be shocked to learn that the newest Republican tax proposal looks like a dead ringer for past Republican tax proposals — ever-increasing windfalls for the wealthy, megawealthy, and let's-go-to-space-for-fun-wealthy at the expense of basically everyone else and particularly those wondering how to pay for next week's groceries. A new analysis from the Urban Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank, estimates that low-income families would "suffer significant losses in net income," while families making above $200,000 per year will see $13,200 in tax "relief." Make it make sense.

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Food security experts warn Gaza at "critical risk of famine" amid Israeli blockade
Gaza is at "critical risk of famine," food security experts have warned, 10 weeks after Israel imposed a blockade on the devastated Palestinian territory, cutting off all supplies including food, medicine, shelter, and fuel. In its most recent report, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said on Monday there had been a “major deterioration” in the food security situation in Gaza since its last assessment in October 2024 and that Palestinians living there faced "a critical risk of famine." The entire Palestinian population is facing "high levels of acute food insecurity, with half a million people — one in five — facing starvation,” said the IPC, a consortium of independent specialists tasked by the UN and international NGOs with assessing the risk of famine in crises worldwide. Israel imposed its strict blockade in early March, after the end of the first phase of a supposed three-phase ceasefire. Just over two weeks later, a new wave of attacks by the Israeli military definitively ended the truce.

HIV patients in Ukraine face treatment "apocalypse" as US funds in limbo
Trump's massive ax in January to projects funded by USAID hit NGOs and government-run projects in Ukraine working to tackle one of the largest HIV epidemics in Europe. The Trump regime later reversed cuts to life-saving humanitarian assistance for 90 days — while it supposedly conducts a review of foreign aid — bringing a reprieve to these Ukrainian services. But with no long-term funding decision in sight, and with supplies of medicines only sufficient until November, health staff and patients in the war-ravaged nation are fearful they will have no means to control the deadly infectious disease. Another big "win" for Donald and Elon's unconscionably cruel and incredibly stupid DOGE crusade.

GOP silent as Trump and Elon backstab our veterans
VoteVets: Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relentless efforts to gut the federal government and dismantle its agencies is a full-fledged attack on our veterans. One-third of the federal workforce are veterans. DOGE’s budget cuts are gutting veteran livelihoods, public service careers, and threatening their access to essential care. That’s why VoteVets is launching a movement to fight back and restore the institutions that our vets risked their lives to protect. Will you add your name and stand with our veterans against Donald Trump’s rampage?

FedEx board member David Steiner to lead US Postal Service
David Steiner will replace the widely reviled Louis DeJoy, a Trump appointee who was somehow allowed to remain in his post for the entirety of the Biden administration. The choice of a FedEx bigwig makes it clear that privatizing or otherwise gutting the USPS is in the works so that big corporations like FedEx can make a killing while the rest of have to deal with even more expensive service, as the enshittification of everything that actually worked in this country continues at a frightening pace.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have laughably been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration.

DNC panel opens the door to removing David Hogg from his national post
While the party leadership claims this is due to a "procedural issue" and not related to David Hogg's controversial plan to encourage competition by funding primary challenges in safe blue seats, it is curious that the DNC is putting this kind of pressure on Hogg, to say the least. One would think that a healthy competitive spirit and ensuring that we're sending the best candidates in every seat would be good for our ailing democracy.

RFK Jr. goes swimming with grandchildren in contaminated DC creek
To be fair, Bobby Jr. has likely built up a natural immunity to raw sewage, having spent a lifetime wading and wallowing in horseshit, but someone might wanna schedule a welfare check on those poor kids.