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You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at...

NOTE: I thought about putting this into the comments of today APR, but it was too lengthy. Therefore, I decided to write a diary entry instead. Thanks for this morning’s APR. I would just add one thing. I understand that statisticians prefer to take in...

President Donald Trump’s billionaire-focused economy is not improving, the Epstein files are not disappearing, and every distraction the administration throws out is meeting far more scrutiny and ...

Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed. In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according...

The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ...

I frequent Yahoo comments pages a little too much, can’t help but throw shots at the idiot MAGAs and their commitment to tRUmp’s surreality. My most recent “fuck you MAGA” line has been in relation to the war crimes/murder in the Caribbean spree our...

A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an...

Darnold Trump’s approval ratings have been dropping notably over the past year. But before you get too optimistic, please remember that there are folks out there who say that they don’t like the ...

Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.

In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s ...

Before I get to this week’s good news (and there was a lot!) I want to talk about why I am not sweating SCOTUS’s awful decision to let Texas Gerrymandering stand. First, this SCOTUS is terrible and I only expect terrible from it. I keep my mental...

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The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the...

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ...

The headline is true — my mom’s people used to be considered less than fully white. �For those who know me, this is an amusing fact. �I am extremely white. �Hockey is my favorite sport. �I think ...

I hope everyone had a fine holiday weekend. I made a ton of stuffing this year, and turned some of the leftovers into Leftover Stuffing Bread Pudding, with a bit of queso Oaxaca added for that ...

Sound up Holy Shit! This is where my story ends. Anything between this and the comments has nothing to do with me. ZT

Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration. In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ...

We begin today with� Heather Cox Richardson �writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. In the ...

Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...