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Now, the Trump administration's policy is to let alleged drug-boat smugglers go scot-free
After September 2nd, the “kill everybody” policy for alleged drug smugglers who survived boat sinkings was changed. Now they rescue them and let them go free. The Biden policy was to bring them to the US, prosecute them, and jail them if there was...
tadamsmar 12/02/2025 7
Imitative AI Limits, Human And Mathematical
One of the reasons that imitative AI like ChatGPT is almost certainly a bubble is that running these systems simply cost too much money compared to the amount of value that they generate. �Even ...
angryea 12/02/2025 7
Drugs, Crypto and the Pardon of Dread Pirate Roberts
Donald Trump is giving hypocrisy a bad name. His pardon of former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez has re-focused attention on his baseless contention that he is fighting the illegal drug trade. He has used this...
BoilerLib 12/01/2025 3
Krugman's explanation for Trump's pardon of the former Honduran president needs prime time attention
This past Friday, Trump announced he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in March 2024 was convicted by a U.S. jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import massive amounts of cocaine into the...
RETIII 12/01/2025 204
Trump rushes to rescue GOP in surprisingly tight special election
President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps on Monday, calling into a Nashville rally for the special election that has grown uncomfortably tight for the GOP. “The whole world is watching Tennessee...
Alex Samuels 12/01/2025 67
Cartoon: Obey my odors! The turkey hates turkey!
Check out all the Pinocchio Trump cartoons: www.youtube.com/...
PresidentOso 12/01/2025 7
Spot the AI in this Diary - UPDATED
I Use AI to Help Me Write. That's Not What's Happening Here. I've been writing here on Daily Kos for a while now, and yes, I started using AI to help. Claude helps me fact-check death tolls in genocides. It helps me smooth a clunky transition. It finds...
LilBoyBlu 12/01/2025 48
Why Dems Can Ill Afford to Share "Affordability" With Trump's Cult
Affordability. Granted, that 6-syllable juggernaut amounts to a polite way of broaching the human costs of decades of governance of/by/for the have-mores. But still. At least the term resonates with countless GOP-ravaged (and potentially enraged)...
Inspector Clueso 12/01/2025 3
Trump literally phones in rally appearance
During a Monday rally for Republican Matt Van Epps, whose Tennessee spe cial election is on Tuesday, House ...
Walter Einenkel 12/01/2025 70
'Imperial Blowback' or PTSD? DC shooter part of CIA death squad in Afghanistan? Too soon to tell.
The GOP and the White House may be hoping Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a Marinus van der Lubbe? Too soon to tell, as long as he’s not dead, because the ICE cosplay death squads need their continuing anonymity in the service of mass deportation and migration...
annieli 12/01/2025 14
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Is Impressive
I saw Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear address a Nebraska Democratic Party fundraiser on November 7. I was very impressed with what I saw and heard. Beshear’s superb remarks were interrupted numerous times by applause. He is a rare political talent. I...
NebraskaDemocrat 12/01/2025 25
Trump will use the military to disrupt elections
First, a couple of questions about the illegal strikes that US military personnel are conducting on Caribbean boats. Then I’m going to leap into a conspiracy theory that QAnon would be proud of, er, if they were progressives. It is speculation,...
b3LLsb33r 12/01/2025 33
Arizona Canvass Wrapup: Sure, there's no Climate Change... SMH
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � Arizona initially because of Presidential and Senate elections.� But we ...
snowbored 12/01/2025 2
Pardoning ex-Presidente Jefe because 400 tons of trafficked drugs isn't like trafficking children
Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison...
annieli 11/30/2025 36
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
Opting to be on the leading edge: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris's missed opportunity
Yes, some will label a Democrat “radical” if they’re on the leading edge of an issue. And? Will a Democrat be immune from criticism from the right or from the chattering class if they take a more middle-of-the-road position? Not likely! But they’ll get...
Rob in Vermont 11/30/2025 64
📚 The Inoculation Project 11/30/2025: Texas Border and Blackfeet Nation
This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school...
belinda ridgewood 11/30/2025 12