Earlier this year, Vice President JD Vance was given his little anti-fraud task force to more efficiently attack blue states and keep his base in a constant state of fact-free rage over the unworthy poors, minorities, and immigrants who are stealing their money. But just as Vance started to brag about all of the cool things his task force is doing and all of the evil fraud he’s saving us…
Last-minute redistricting is forcing primaries to be rescheduled and confusing voters. Meanwhile, the federal government isn’t sure how to implement Trump’s mail-voting executive order. By Carrie Levine for Votebeat With less than six months until the general election, and state primaries already well underway, you’d think that the rules of engagement for the 2026 midterms would be…
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There are some pathetic world leaders in our unfortunate timeline. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has wasted much of his nation’s demographic future on Ukrainian soil. Argentina’s Javier Milei chainsawed his country’s social contract apart for billionaire applause. And the United Kingdom’s Keir Starmer has somehow managed a 22% job approval rating in less than two years in office. But none look as…
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. 46 years ago: Mount St. Helens erupted More than 200 miles of wilderness was destroyed across Washington state. Trump’s super-important ballroom is going to open when, exactly? The more we learn, the less it all makes sense. Republicans can’t gerrymander their way…
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Well, it happened. President Donald Trump really did drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to instead “settle” for $1.776 billion (ugh) to go to Jan. 6 insurrectionists and whoever else might just have a vibe that former President Joe Biden was mean to them. As part of this sham, Trump is also dropping his $230 million demand for how sad he was over the Mar-a…
“Reaganomics” is no match for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. During an event to launch the city’s new government-owned grocery stores, Mamdani mocked former President Ronald Reagan and right-wing economics. The Mamdani administration plans to open five stores as part of his plan to make groceries more affordable, a key issue on which he campaigned last year. “I cannot help but…
Three men were killed in a shooting at a San Diego mosque Monday and both suspects are dead, police said. Both suspects are believed to be teens and the case is considered to be a hate crime, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said at a news conference. The shooting happened at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in San Diego County. The Islamic Center is about 9 miles…
Georgia Republicans look increasingly likely to lose two state Supreme Court seats, as backlash to President Donald Trump and the GOP has juiced Democratic turnout in the Peach State’s Tuesday primary. But instead of accepting the results of the election, Republicans might be cooking up a way to steal those seats back. Here’s how. Republicans are alleging that the two liberal…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to deliver remarks at a medal ceremony at the Sabalauski Air Assault School in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Monday. And it seemed that—like the rest of us—Mother Nature had grown tired of hearing him speak. As the wind tried to push Hegseth down, Fox News tried desperately to switch feeds—but not even that could drown out the heavy gusts interrupting…
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President Donald Trump is in hot water after he made—and doubled down on—the tone-deaf assertion that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situations when he makes decisions for the country. But while he clearly doesn’t care about your financial situation, he sure does think about his own—and his recently disclosed stock trades prove it. Financial disclosures released this past…
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Evangelicals love President Donald Trump, and he pretends to love them back. But when it comes time to show up, he literally can’t be bothered. Sunday’s “Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving” on the National Mall was Trump’s latest attack on the separation of church and state, well in keeping with an administration that just declared that there actually is…
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall went on Fox News on Monday with Maria Bartiromo, where the two whined about the problems they’ve created and solutions they’ve ignored. “I was talking with [Sen.] John Fetterman about this yesterday, and he made the point, look, the Democrats are focused on all of this small stuff like the ballroom, like the pool at the White House,” Bartiromo said.
President Donald Trump now wants to build a helipad for Marine One, the presidential helicopter, at the White House. Considering Trump’s track record in his second term of defacing the White House and other Washington, D.C. landmarks, the helipad could easily become another eyesore—and at taxpayer expense. For years the possibility of constructing a helipad has come up but Trump has renewed…
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The Trump administration on Monday announced the creation a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of…
Republicans have been exuberant since the right-wing Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act about three weeks ago, and since another court nullified the congressional map Democrats redrew in Virginia. Altogether, it’s made the GOP feel like it has a chance to maintain its House majority in this fall’s midterm elections. But a new New York Times/Siena University poll released Monday should…
Now that President Donald Trump is done with his diplomatic trip to China, he’s returning his focus to what he really loves: being a developer who gets to spend your money. Honestly, it must be a dream for a sleazebag like Trump. He doesn’t need to pay for his projects. He doesn’t need permission for his projects. He doesn’t need to follow any pesky zoning, permitting, or safety rules for his…
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington. The blast killed 57 people, flattened forests, and devastated roughly 210 square miles of wilderness across the state—with images of the eruption circulating on TV in the hours and days to come. After weeks of small tremors, the north side of the volcano collapsed on the morning of May 18, triggering a massive sideways explosion…
A hospital CEO says looming Medicaid reductions threaten vulnerable residents and the state’s health system. By Mark Kreidler for Capital & Main Just as California’s billionaires would prefer, the public conversation around a proposed one-time tax on a fraction of their immense wealth has become centered on a single threat: They’ll leave and take their money with them if the tax…
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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. Lo, the era of gerrymaxxing is upon us. On April 29, the Supreme Court functionally set fire to what remained of the Voting Rights Act, declared racism defeated, and allowed states to rig their…
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By Stephanie Armour and Amanda Seitz Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is caught between his Make America Healthy Again supporters who want him to do more to advance their priorities, including curtailing vaccines, and a White House trying to combat President Donald Trump’s unpopularity. Protesters’ chants could be heard from inside the Cleveland City Club…
Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax to try to lower fuel prices for Americans. He told CBS News that a gas tax holiday is “a great idea” and that he is…
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Reactions to the senator’s disclosure of a longtime essential tremor, a relatively common condition, have reminded women with the same disorder how stigma still shapes perceptions of competence. By Sara Luterman for The 19th Sen. Susan Collins recently revealed that for decades she has had a condition called an essential tremor. She made the disclosure after questions arose about…
As Americans struggle to afford food, fill up on gas, or find a job, you’ll be relieved to know that President Donald Trump is perfectly comfortable sitting in his White House—looking out at all of his monuments to self. But, of course, chief among them is his ridiculous ballroom. First, the ballroom was projected to cost $200 million. Then, okay, let’s just bump that up to $400 million …
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people. By Max Blau and Joel Jacobs for ProPublica A Georgia congressman running for one of the country’s most competitive U.S.
Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 300 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. In his 84 years on Earth, Henry Saint Claire Fredericks—known to the world as Taj Mahal—has thrilled the world with…
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Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. This past week, multibillionaire and top Republican donor Elon Musk had a meltdown because director Christopher Nolan cast Black and transgender people as mythological characters in his adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey.
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Former Vice President Al Gore is knocking on wood. Seated in front of portraits of Johnny Cash and Prince inside The Pinnacle, a Nashville music venue, Gore told Inside Climate News that despite the current state of both national and global politics, he believes humanity can and will surmount the challenge of human-induced climate change. But that’s not the whole story, he said.
It seems like every week we have a story about a lawsuit over Trump’s desecration of Washington D.C., and this week is no exception. We’ve also got the Justice Department doing new sleazy things. And then we’ve got the secretary of agriculture using her official email to praise Jesus to every department employee. Sadly, that’s probably going to start happening every week as well.
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The administration could potentially hand back over $166 billion following a Supreme Court decision ruling the tariffs illegal. By Kevin Hardy for Stateline The fiscal leaders of several states are demanding transparency and consumer fairness as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to refund billions in international tariffs following a recent Supreme Court loss.
President Donald Trump continued to show signs of weakness as the fruits of his administration continue to rot in public view. While his Cabinet pathetically sputtered in hearings and interviews—unable to answer even the simplest questions—Trump himself dared to say something he’s never said before: the truth. And it was all on video. ‘I don’t think about anybody’: Trump is…
The Conversation is a weekly dive into the most popular stories on Daily Kos and what it tells us about the national political environment. This week, President Donald Trump told both the biggest truth and the biggest lie of his presidency while answering a single question. Asked whether he thought about Americans’ financial situation when considering a deal to end his idiotic and…
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean. Back in 2019, I wrote about the Garifuna people. At the time, I noted that, “Though more than one-half of the students enrolled in the class were of either Caribbean birth or…
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest instance of the president using his powers to reward those who echoed his baseless claims of mass fraud as the cause of his 2020 loss. Trump has championed the case of Peters, a 70-year-old former county clerk who was sentenced to…
The scope of the destruction at the United States Agency for International Development is almost unimaginable. President Donald Trump, multibillionaire Elon Musk, and the DOGE boys slashed and burned the foreign aid program. That has already led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and new reports indicate it has also led to a spike in deadly violence in Africa. A new study in…
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican…
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump secures reparations for Jan. 6 rioters—out of your wallet The DOJ is now a puppet of the president to be turned loose on anyone who’s displeased him. Black voter turnout soars amid GOP’s racist map-rigging Republican lawmakers are in the Finding Out stage of…
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Right-wing podcaster and co-founder of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro lashed out at his fellow conservatives Friday—the latest in a series of high-profile conflicts between conservative media personalities. Shapiro’s diatribe came in response to reports of problems at his company, which launched several years ago with lofty ambitions of being a conservative answer to “woke” media.
Californians are no strangers to an elected official with a Hollywood past, but MAGA-aligned politicians are trying to have their on-camera career and win an election too. Spencer Pratt, the Republican former reality TV star challenging Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, reportedly inked a deal with Boardwalk Pictures to film his political journey, but that filming would continue if he were…
Vice President JD Vance delivered the keynote address Friday at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, held on the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to honor law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. The speech went down like a cement balloon. “You’re always going to have terrible people who want to do the worst things,” Vance said. “But allowing so many of those people…
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Who better to lead the response to the recent hantavirus outbreak than a urologist with a history of promoting debunked right-wing conspiracies? Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine led a hantavirus press conference Monday—despite the fact that he has more experience discussing penile implants than he does viral outbreaks.
GOP-controlled states in the South are rushing to redraw their congressional maps after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Republicans to draw new lines that eliminate seats held by Black Democrats. The gerrymandering efforts have led to disgusting images of Republicans gloating in the faces of the Black lawmakers, whose power they are purposely erasing…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz appeared on CNBC Friday, where he claimed that organized crime networks are running healthcare programs in immigrant communities. “It turns out there’s large organized criminal syndicates that are involved, and they often have foreign connections,” Oz said. “We’ve got Russian mafia in LA, we’ve got Chinese mafia—go to Flushing…
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is that the Internal Revenue Service may not be handing over $10 billion in taxpayer money to President Donald Trump for his fake lawsuit. The bad news is that it looks like the IRS is now planning to give Trump $1.7 billion in taxpayer money in exchange for dropping his fake lawsuit. But wait, there’s even worse news.
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Truthful reporting that makes the public view him in a negative light is now on President Donald Trump’s list of crimes punishable by death. Trump revealed his latest in an ongoing series of anti-free-speech thoughts while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. The issue came up when New York Times reporter David Sanger asked Trump to speak about the bombing campaign in Iran.
Farmers were all-in on President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, with more than three-quarters of voters in farming communities casting a ballot for him—an increase from four years earlier. However, since he took office, many of Trump’s policy decisions have hit farmers particularly hard. His cruel immigration raids have left farmers unable to find the labor needed to plant and grow their…
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The Department of Justice is really leaning into its argument that its attorneys, past and present, can literally never be held responsible by state bars. The test case for this, as it were, is to put the tattered shreds of DOJ credibility on the line to say that the Washington, D.C., Bar can’t recommend that attorney Jeffrey Clark be disbarred for his role in trying to overturn the 2020…
By Amanda Seitz for KFF The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation’s health secretary. “What do you guys want to be when you grow up?” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a carpet full of preschoolers. “A dinosaur!” the boy replied, squeezing tighter. Just weeks ago, Kennedy sat before lawmakers on Capitol…
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FBI Director Kash Patel has been living large on your hard-earned tax dollars, using private jets and luxury vehicles to shuttle himself and his girlfriend to sporting and leisure events—including the winter olympics, where he shared some brewskis with the men’s hockey team. But Patel’s latest taxpayer-funded activity is perhaps the most disturbing yet. According to The Associated…
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Hegseth slashes Army training as Trump’s war rages on Totally the move you want from the secretary of defense. Republicans are terrified of losing the governor’s race in this state The GOP’s attempt to gerrymander its way to victory reeks of desperation.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Thursday, and it didn’t go well. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand quickly lost patience with HUD’s unconscionable delay of five months in releasing its report on homelessness in America. “What is your record?” Gillibrand asked…
FIFA might have given President Donald Trump his own golden participation trophy after the Nobel Peace Prize he so covets went to Venezuelan activist Maria Machado, but that hasn’t stopped his administration’s plans to station ICE agents at upcoming World Cup matches. According to a recent interview with new Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin, the widely despised agents will…
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The court’s order allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the drug, mifepristone, at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. Access is likely to remain uninterrupted at least…
Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Adm. Charles B. Cooper II, commander of the U.S. Central Command, on President Donald Trump’s seemingly endless war in Iran. During the Thursday hearing, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York asked about reports that, in addition to bombing a girls’ school that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, U.S.
After years of the Trump family using the presidency to personally profit, The New York Times on Thursday reported that merely the “potential” of corruption exists. The understatement was included in the Times’ reporting on Eric Trump’s decision to fly to China with his father while meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. The story by the paper’s White House correspondent Luke Broadwater noted…
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A bizarre mystery is playing out in New Jersey’s most competitive congressional district—the district where I happen to live. Rep. Tom Kean Jr.—one of the most vulnerable Republicans up for reelection—has been MIA since March 5, missing dozens of House votes and sending staff in his place to events in his district. Kean’s office said that he has a “personal health matter” that he’s…
In a move that the Washington Post is desperately trying to gentlewash as simply “unusual,” it appears that President Donald Trump has been trying to staple an entirely different contract for construction at the White House, over a mile away, to his efforts to build his Big Dumb Arch. The administration loves this sort of One Weird Trick garbage, where it comes up with some utterly…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on CNBC Thursday, where host Joe Kernen gingerly pressed him on whether President Donald Trump might eventually make concessions to China regarding the self-governed Taiwan. “I’m confident that President Trump understands the issues around that and is very resolute in his answers,” Bessent said. Kernen tried again. “Do you think…
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On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that $1.3 billion in vital Medicaid funding would be deferred for six months for unspecified “fraud,” a significant financial punishment to the residents of a state that have voted overwhelmingly against President Donald Trump in every election he has run in. Vice President JD Vance made the announcement at a White House event…
Outgoing Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday called a special session of the Peach State Legislature, ordering the GOP-controlled body to redraw the state’s congressional maps for the 2028 cycle to extract more seats for his party. Why would Kemp ask the Legislature to redraw the maps now, even though they wouldn’t go into effect until the next election cycle, you ask?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a little short on cash. You see, the Army is apparently short $4 to $6 billion, and while that is a lot of money to the rest of us, it’s pretty much pocket change for the Pentagon. So Hegseth just needs to make a few small adjustments here and there, which led him to a terrific solution: drastically cut training for servicemembers. Chat…
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A governor-appointed state board weighs whether to ban the use of engineered stone to protect workers from a deadly lung disease. By Semantha Raquel Norris for Capital & Main California could be the first state to ban the sale and installation of engineered stone, also known as quartz, as state regulators try to stem a growing silicosis epidemic among stone fabrication workers.
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President Donald Trump and his entourage arrived in China Wednesday for what is ostensibly a diplomatic trip where he will try to persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping to buy more soybeans from U.S. farmers and also, pretty please, maybe help with the Strait of Hormuz. But this voyage is looking a lot like Trump’s Middle East trip last May, where handpicked CEOs tagged along so they could do some…
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Democrats are finally bringing the gerrymandering fire It’s about time. Same old war in Iran, brand-new name? Just some light rebranding. Donald Trump doesn’t care about you—and he never did This may be the first time he’s ever told the truth …
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President Donald Trump was, for once in his life, honest with reporters on Tuesday when he admitted “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when it comes to his inflationary war in Iran. And when asked to respond to Trump’s out-of-touch admission, Republicans are struggling to defend their Dear Leader’s indefensible remark. Get a load of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s…
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum found himself on the hot seat during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing as Democrats pressed him over the possibly illegal $13.1 million no-bid contract for repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado tried to pin Burgum down on who exactly approved the no-bid project. President Donald Trump initially boasted…
D-list reality TV personality Spencer Pratt’s longshot bid for mayor of Los Angeles has picked up steam in recent weeks. His campaign ads have gone viral, and some Hollywood celebrities, like Paris Hilton, have endorsed his candidacy. Indeed, a poll released Wednesday from Emerson College and Inside California Politics found Pratt in second place in the all-party primary…
The bigotry boutique “Sharia Free America Caucus” used the GOP’s control of Congress to hold its second committee hearing Wednesday. During the meeting, titled “Why Political Islam & Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution,” ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin asked GOP witness Marco Hunter-Lopez, a Texas high school student who gained attention for his anti-Muslim activism at his…
Director Christopher Nolan is coming under fire from conservatives after the trailer debuted for his upcoming film, “The Odyssey,” based on the classic mythological poem by Homer. Nolan’s apparent crime in the eyes of the right is the decision to cast Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, who is Black, as Helen of Troy and Elliot Page, who is transgender, as Achilles.
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Nothing says “separation of church and state” like the federal government doing an all-day prayer jamboree—for conservative Christians, that is. Then again, President Donald Trump’s religious liberty commission decided that the founders actually didn’t believe in the separation of church and state, so it’s totally cool to shut down the National Mall for religious purposes on May 17.
GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee appeared on Fox Business Wednesday, where he framed investigations into his campaign finance as unwarranted surveillance under former President Joe Biden. “I spent the last two years working with the DOJ, clearing my name,” Ogles told host Maria Bartiromo. “It’s taken two years, and quite frankly, the impact that has on your family—my little one still has…
Turn on a cable news network or scroll social media and you’ll likely find dozens of Democratic lawmakers loudly protesting against the increasing radicalization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Back in February, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer escalated that battle in a letter to congressional Republican leaders that flatly accused ICE of…
First, the impossibly oversized and ugly ballroom President Donald Trump is building was going to cost $200 million. Then it jumped to $400 million without any real explanation why. But now that Republicans in Congress are tripping over themselves to give Trump a billion dollars, he’s going to spend every last dime. Senate Republicans were graced with a single page of details about this…
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The Trump administration is reportedly plotting yet another rebrand of the war in Iran while intelligence agencies reveal that the bombing campaign has failed to significantly degrade that nation’s missile capabilities. NBC reports that officials are considering calling the conflict “Operation Sledgehammer,” which would be a replacement for the current “Operation Epic Fury.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivered a message to fellow Democrats about the gerrymandering war that President Donald Trump and the conservative-majority Supreme Court started: Either get on board with plans to redraw your state’s congressional maps, or get out. “The days of Democrats unilaterally disarming are over, particularly given how high the stakes are,” Jeffries told CNN in…
President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter Tuesday, “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” It’s a fair question, right? Polls consistently show that the economy is at the top of voters’ concerns, which has dragged Trump’s approval numbers into the gutter. So this was a perfect opportunity for Trump to counter the perception that he’s…
The dominance in that online space comes as 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they get health and wellness information from social media influencers or podcasts. By Barbara Rodriguez for The 19th Sixty-four percent of health and wellness influencers are women, according to a new analysis. That dominance in the online health and wellness space comes as 4 in 10 U.S. adults — and half of…
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Fox News, which once portrayed John Fetterman as unfit to serve in the Senate, has now become a major promoter of the Pennsylvania Democrat as he turns against his own party. During his 2022 Senate campaign, Fetterman portrayed himself as a progressive, but following his win, staffers say he has changed, allegedly becoming hostile and closed off. In public, he has increasingly lashed out at…
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump’s war in Iran has been hell on Americans’ wallets It’s not your imagination—his war of choice is causing serious economic pain. Suckers paid $59 million for nonexistent Trump phones The family of hucksters pulled off yet another gold-plated grift.
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It’s the sort of news that sounds like a low-key conspiracy theory cooked up by a disgruntled liberal: The secretary of transportation, a former reality TV star, did a seven-month road trip with his family for a reality TV show, while still ostensibly doing his Cabinet job—and private companies that the Transportation Department regulates ponied up to cover the bill. But of course…
President Donald Trump was not a happy camper as reporters peppered him with questions before he boarded Marine One on Tuesday. When asked whether the devastating economy factored into his supposed negotiations with Iran, Trump said the quiet part super duper loudly. “Not even a little bit,” he said. “The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran: they can’t have a nuclear…
If you want to know how Texas Sen. John Cornyn is feeling about his chances two weeks out from his May 26 Republican primary runoff election against scandal-tarred state Attorney General Ken Paxton, look no further than Cornyn’s desperate introduction of a bill to rename a highway in the Lone Star State after President Donald Trump. “I am proud to introduce legislation to rename US Highway…
While much calmer than the last time he testified in front of Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s appearance before a Senate committee was even more disastrous than his House committee hearing earlier on Tuesday. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington confronted Hegseth over the outrageous defense budget, especially as Republicans continue to slash programs that support…
The most transparent administration in history is at it again. The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 23 that the Pentagon had raised concerns to President Donald Trump about the wisdom of starting a war in Iran—the one he went and started anyway five days later. On March 4, the Department of Justice served grand jury subpoenas on the paper demanding records from reporters. In theory…
President Donald Trump is pushing to suspend the federal gas tax as Americans continue to deal with rising prices thanks to his war in Iran. But Democrats aren’t interested in helping him throw a few pennies at the massive problem he’s created. The average price of a gallon of gas currently stands at more than $4.55 per gallon. When Trump took office in January 2025…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Pentagon officials embarrassed themselves yet again during House and Senate budget hearings Tuesday. Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California asked about the logistics and costs of President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, pressing acting Comptroller Jules W. Hurst III for an updated estimate after he previously projected it to cost $25 billion.
House Democrats are condemning Virginia GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans after she agreed with a racist dog whistle made by a conservative commentator, saying Kiggans’ refusal to apologize for her actions makes her unfit to serve in Congress. The incident in question happened on Monday when Kiggans, one of the most vulnerable Republicans up for reelection in 2026, sat for an interview with local right…
The T1 Phone—a gold cell phone bearing President Donald Trump’s name—feels about as real as Bigfoot these days. It’s been close to a year since the flashy announcement that the Trump family was going to manufacture the very best, most American, most gold-plated phone ever. But there’s no phone in sight, and it’s increasingly looking like there never will be. But if it never arrives…
President Donald Trump had another online meltdown at six in the morning on Tuesday. This time it was posting a lengthy diatribe complaining about a New York Times report that exposed millions in unaccountable spending by his administration on controversial renovations to the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. Trump started his rant by lying once again that he had won the 2024 election…
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It’s been nearly two decades since the original YearlyKos, born from the comments of this humble little blog, then morphing into a major political spectacle in an aging Las Vegas casino that would soon be torn down—and where I somehow ended up feuding with Maureen Dowd. It all culminated with my then-3-year-old son, Ari, screaming at the exact moment that the late, great Harry Reid took the…
President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran is undeniably causing economic pain for Americans, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics announcing on Tuesday that inflation has risen at the fastest rate in three years. The consumer price index—which measures the average change in consumer goods prices—rose 3.8% in April compared with a year prior. That’s much higher than the 2.4%
Uh-oh, it looks like one of President Donald Trump’s sycophants told him to prepare for the Supreme Court denying his wish of eliminating birthright citizenship. And as you can imagine, he’s not taking it well. Unsurprisingly, Trump has decided that the best way to handle the upset is to threaten the Supreme Court justices on Truth Social—because how dare his own appointees rule against him.
Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn’t been able to since the Trump administration stopped reviewing applications for people from several dozen countries it deemed high-risk. Alghoula’s current visa will expire in September if his application is denied. But last week…
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Friday’s court ruling invalidating Virginia’s redrawn congressional map, which was blessed by more than 1.6 million voters, was utterly demoralizing for Democrats. Time and again, the party is shown that the nation’s judicial system, stacked with conservative hacks, allows the GOP to act with impunity while forcing Democrats to clear significant hurdles. Despite that and the Supreme Court…
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The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has put out a public call for a right-leaning political figure to counteract New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she decides to run for president in 2028. The appeal came in the second of two pieces written by the Post’s editorial board taking aim at Ocasio-Cortez over a 48-hour period. In the first piece…
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia appeared on “Pod Save America” this week, where he was asked about comments he recently made in an interview with MSNOW’s Jen Psaki. “This is how fascists talk,” Warnock told Psaki last month, referring to Vice President JD Vance’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV. “They tell the people who are faith leaders to stay in your lane. You know, there were a lot…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber. The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling in April that struck down a majority-Black U.S.
President Donald Trump wants to suspend the gas tax to try to alleviate pain at the pump for Americans, who are seeing higher prices thanks to Trump’s idiotic war in Iran. “I think it’s a great idea,” Trump told CBS News on Monday. “Yup, we’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in.” But suspending the gas tax—which Trump…
White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly, who is filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt during her maternity leave, spoke with Fox News Monday to defend President Donald Trump’s many dumb ideas. Host John Roberts said that, in an earlier conversation with Trump, he was “very serious” about making Venezuela the 51st state. “How would that work?” Roberts asked. “I won’…
Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four winnable U.S. House seats. The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a constitutional amendment that voters narrowly passed just last month. The 4-3 state court decision found…
It’s bad enough to see President Donald Trump destroy the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by making it look like a tacky Mar-a-Lago swimming hole. It’s worse to see that the whole endeavor has turned into just another grift. On Monday, The New York Times reported that costs for Trump’s so-called renovation of the pool have jumped sevenfold, which is … kind of a lot?
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President Donald Trump held a “Make America Healthy Again” event in the Oval Office on Monday that was anything but healthy. Flanked by grinning Cabinet officials and other sycophants, Trump rambled on about topics ranging from fertility and autism to drug prices and—of course—his personal grievances. “I mean every person around who’s gonna have autism,” Trump said during one meandering…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a veritable wind-up doll of ill-conceived ideas, and his latest is a doozy: What if he figured out a new way to attack Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona? Hegseth is obsessed with punishing Kelly for speaking out about Hegseth’s actions. This is ceaselessly stupid, illegal, and ridiculous—even more so because Hegseth is in the middle of a war that is very…