| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump’s revenge plot unravels as another grand jury shuts him down President Donald Trump’s plans for revenge against his political enemies were disrupted yet again on Thursday after a grand jury declined to pursue charges against New York Attorney General ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 46 |
| The Recap: Trump’s ballroom breakup, and Kash Patel’s reported FBI taxi service A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump releases racist blueprint for the world The “great replacement” theory is now getting echoed in national policy. Out of step: Trump... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| FBI agents now reportedly acting as Kash Patel’s personal Uber FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under scrutiny for allegedly bending the bureau’s resources to support his personal life, this time involving his girlfriend’s social outings.
According ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/05/2025 | 50 |
| Cartoon: I'm with stupid A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Jack Ohman | 12/05/2025 | 16 |
| Trump finally gets his ‘peace prize’ President Donald Trump received a made-up peace prize from the International Federation of Association Football ahead of the 2026 World Cup, ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/05/2025 | 126 |
| Trump releases racist blueprint for the world The Trump administration released its “ National Security Strategy ”� on Thursday night, but the document reads more like a manifesto advocating for white supremacy than a supposed national ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| Watch 'wartime' House speaker drop some baffling bullsh-t Mike Johnson branded himself a “wartime” speaker of the House during a Friday appearance on Fox Business. He also claimed he and President Donald Trump work nearly every hour in the day�doing ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/05/2025 | 97 |
| Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ... |
Emily Singer | 12/05/2025 | 47 |
| Cartoon: Under the rug A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/05/2025 | 22 |
| Out of step: Trump breaks up with his ballroom architect President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo.
McCrery Architects, you’re fired. |
Lisa Needham | 12/05/2025 | 190 |
| Sean Duffy faces pajama protest after playing fashion police Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party.
After the transportation secretary told people to “ dress up ” at the airport as a way to make air travel better ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/05/2025 | 109 |
| Holiday shopping boycott fights Trump with the power of the purse A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ... |
Capital and Main | 12/05/2025 | 44 |
| Cartoon: Dozy Don A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Drew Sheneman | 12/05/2025 | 24 |
| More kids are dying—thanks to Trump For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?”
The Gates Foundation issued a ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/04/2025 | 47 |
| Cartoon: Con job president A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ... |
Clay Jones | 12/04/2025 | 15 |
| Mad about the economy? Trump toady says you're just in a bad 'mood' National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was confronted on Fox News, of all places, with polling that shows most Americans have a negative view of the economy and blame it on President ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 82 |
| Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of... |
KeithDB | 12/04/2025 | 148 |
| In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump.
The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 58 |
| Republicans still spouting bullsh-t about imaginary health care plans GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas appeared on Fox Business Thursday, delivering a nonsensical word salad about the GOP’s health insurance plans— none of which would actually reduce the skyrocketing ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 67 |
| The Recap: How Hegseth risked soldiers’ lives, and Trump’s latest ‘garbage’ take A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace? When you order a Nobel Peace Prize from Temu. Hegseth could have killed troops with... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| This tech bro hopes Trump's boat bombings will bring big bucks We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/04/2025 | 55 |
| Cartoon: A stab, er, pat on the back A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Mike Luckovich | 12/04/2025 | 11 |
| You’ll want to hear Mark Kelly’s latest take on Pete Hegseth Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona isn’t done wiping the floor with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Center for American Progress event in Washington Thursday, Kelly was asked how he ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 84 |
| Photo Diary: A Walk at Sunken Gardens Sunken Gardens in St Pete FL is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon. They are always rotating plants in and out, so there is something blooming at every time of year. I come here at ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| House speaker to struggling Americans: 'Relax' The rising cost of living is squeezing Americans, with polls finding that roughly three-quarters say prices are higher than they were a year ago and that nearly half blame President Donald Trump for ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| Minneapolis mayor tells Trump what the real 'garbage' is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey clapped back to President Donald Trump’s racist tirades against Somali immigrants in his city. Trump has recently taken to slandering Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 28 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| Did The New York Times just grow a spine? The New York Times and its veteran intelligence reporter, Julian E. Barnes, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on Thursday, accusing the Defense Department of trampling on reporters’ First Amendment rights through a sweeping new set of reporting... |
Alex Samuels | 12/04/2025 | 87 |
| Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/04/2025 | 14 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Hegseth could have killed troops with Signal chat leak The Department of Defense inspector general’s report on the Signalgate scandal reveals that Secretary of State Pete Hegseth’s actions endangered the lives of American troops by revealing key ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 25 |
| Sean Duffy vows to make America smoggy again Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on CNBC on Thursday to defend the White House’s announcement that it would reverse fuel economy standards set during the former Biden administration. ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 114 |
| Daily Bucket: Birdwing Grasshoppers
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 37 |
| Happy Birthday to the Greatest Station in the Nation Forty-five years ago today, WWOZ went on the air at 90.7 FM, dedicated to promoting the music and culture of New Orleans. Initially the dream of brothers Walter and Jerry Brock (Jerry was also a co-founder of the Louisiana Music Factory store), the... |
Crashing Vor | 12/04/2025 | 10 |
| What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace? The United States Institute of Peace has officially been named after President Donald Trump, with the egomaniac’s name now etched into the building.
"This morning, the State Department renamed ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 201 |
| Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| "I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 93 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?" US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 33 |
| Overnight News Digest: December 3, 2025 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
FarWestGirl | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ... |
kos | 12/03/2025 | 118 |
| Poor, misunderstood Young Republican: racist, antisemitic, misogynistic messages were just jokes! I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into gas chambers and making virulently antisemitic,... |
Bob Johnson | 12/03/2025 | 253 |
| From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump Accounts”: Exposing Power and Defending Democracy A president fuels hate, billionaires seed “Trump Accounts,” Congress moves to block a Venezuela war, and Van Hollen calls for Medicare for All. A sweeping look at power, justice, and democratic resistance. From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump... |
Egberto Willies | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| "We ended eight wars… I should get the Nobel prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy." “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.” Trump boasted Tuesday of ending eight wars during his administration, citing examples like a quick ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May after a... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| Bone Spurs on the ground, hitting Venezuelan drug cartels and hoping for spillage onto US soil Less blowback than attacking Mexican cartels, but will it spill into regime change for Maduro. New US strikes will offset the September boat killing snafus, because the Trump administration is all about incompetent misdirection. Unfortunately, actual... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 10 |
| Need Some Early Holiday Cheer? Special Delivery! December 3rd Good News Roundup (GNR) No matter what holiday people celebrate this time of year is usually celebrated. The days are getting super short and the harvest is in. For us Americans, Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror and ... |
bilboteach | 12/03/2025 | 88 |
| Hegseth fade - Phase 1: Sink the boat. Phase 2: Eliminate the threat. Phase 3: Profit (or prison) While Hegseth should also be on trial for this, Admiral Bradley could have refused that order if he believed it to be illegal. The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes. Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| Gaza: The Inverse Hotel California. As the final verse of the song says Last thing I remember I was running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before "Relax," said the night man "We are programmed to receive You can check-out any time you like But you can... |
LaFeminista | 12/03/2025 | 7 |
| "1/6th of people in the US are foreign born. That is not sustainable for our culture" Who sez? Racial Xenophobia and the GOP are not sustainable in 2026, even as one Florida representative favors the “remigration” trope supporting deportation of naturalized citizens. Florida district 3 Representative Kat Cammarck (R-FL): "1/6th of people in the... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 16 |
| Lindsey Graham demands the Pope get on the right side of... Venezuelan boat people? Doubling down to divert attention from those ‘kill them all’ orders from 2 September, since no one seems to have been there during the ‘second strike’ off Venezuela. As a student of Trump’s rhetoric, this is by far the most overtly racist, dehumanizing... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,383: Trump's 'plan' sells out Ukraine, Europe, and American leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the US-Ukrainian peace proposal during his meeting with a US delegation in Moscow on December 2 and remains highly unlikely to accept any compromises short of his original war goals. Because Trump’s plans are... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 57 |
| Insomniacs' Late Night Vent Hole -
In Support of Mark Kelly Edition Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a no flame zone . This vent-hole (hereinafter known as IVH), if lost or stolen will not be replaced or ... |
RRG3DAV | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026 How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald... |
kos | 12/02/2025 | 339 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Wonderful Animals | strawbale | 12/02/2025 | 24 |
| Hidden History: China's Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| Hegseth claims he didn't see the "second strike" because of the 'Gaslight of War' There was the usual cabinet meeting today, where the occasion was used as a press opportunity. In this instance, ‘narco-terrorist’ remains a misnomer, the 2 September mission’s Target Engagement Authority (TEA) was the SecDef, and both Trump and... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 70 |
| #RogueAutoPen strikes: "Stop me before I do absurd things again!" Trump's 150 manic posts last night Epstein distractions continue now with oldies-but-goodies meant to keep the MAGAs in line, considering his murdering screw-ups and deflections from Epstein. The well is drying up, even as he continues his lethal scamming. The unhingery of 150 posts in... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 18 |
| Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today! Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic... |
Brainwrap | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| For SecWar Hegseth, Signalgate was nothing compared to Admiral Bradley pushed in front of... Will Admiral Bradley get keelhauled with a steam catapult? IT’S STILL HEGSETH’S ORDERS and the WHITE HOUSE gets its firewall. Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 130 |
| The White House Vulvacollum* is still about Epstein (and scandal) The end of civilization appears on the horizon in decades of the usual scams mostly vaporware globally applied. For example, if you don’t have a REAL-ID or its equivalent you might not be able to travel, and even if you are, it’ll cost you $45 USD. In... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn 'moral clarity' - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow 'peace' talks? Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016. "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 47 |