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| The Recap: Kash the Clown turns FBI into a 'circus,' and Trump pardons a drug trafficker A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a trafficker Heartwarming: A “two-faced politician hungry for power” gets a second chance.... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/01/2025 | 6 |
| Yet another red state weighs passing an extreme gerrymander Republicans in the Indiana state House on Monday introduced a new congressional district map that seeks to oust the two Democrats in the state's nine-member delegation, heeding President Donald Trump’s demand that state Republicans help him rig the... |
Emily Singer | 12/01/2025 | 38 |
| Cartoon: Jealousy A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.
Related |� Mamdani tames ... |
Drew Sheneman | 12/01/2025 | 9 |
| 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 |
| Another Texas Republican abandons ship as GOP retirements pile up Texas Rep. Troy Nehls announced over the weekend that he won’t seek reelection next year, becoming the sixth Republican in Texas’ congressional delegation to bow out this cycle, and adding to the steady churn inside a party still struggling to navigate... |
Alex Samuels | 12/01/2025 | 41 |
| GOP senator calls Democrats ‘dangerous’ for obeying Constitution GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri appeared on Fox News on Monday, where he claimed that Democrats’ |
Walter Einenkel | 12/01/2025 | 95 |
| Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a trafficker President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic drugs within the United States ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/01/2025 | 53 |
| Cartoon: Kill him A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him. |
Clay Jones | 12/01/2025 | 21 |
| Congress coddles the Supreme Court—all other judges get screwed Lower court judges who rule against the Trump administration have faced a staggering increase in threats, often fueled by President Donald Trump. But thankfully, a huge boost in security funding was ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/01/2025 | 14 |
| FBI is a 'circus' under Kash Patel, says damning report A 115-page report compiled from interviews with dozens of current and former FBI agents found that FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have turned the agency into a ‘circus,’ with agents describing the two men as clowns more... |
Emily Singer | 12/01/2025 | 97 |
| Republicans can’t escape Trump’s drag on the party New polling paints a grim picture for President Donald Trump, whose standing with the public is slipping across nearly every major issue. The erosion isn’t subtle. It’s steady, wide-ranging, and�� |
Alex Samuels | 12/01/2025 | 67 |
| A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days.
When Emmanuel Gonzalez walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October, Houston Police called ICE instead of reuniting them.
By� Leslie Rangel, The Barbed Wire,� for The 19th
Maria Garcia ... |
The19th | 12/01/2025 | 57 |
| Cartoon: The war on woke As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 12/01/2025 | 28 |
| My People Used To Be Not White 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 ... |
angryea | 12/01/2025 | 105 |
| Morning Open Thread: There Will Be Dancing At My Funeral ________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life... |
officebss | 12/01/2025 | 67 |
| 📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️🌈; We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ... |
Clio2 | 11/30/2025 | 11 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Treason! A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.
Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him. |
Drew Sheneman | 11/30/2025 | 22 |
| 29 times Fox News made us cringe in disgust this year President Donald Trump is attached at the hip to Fox News, the right-wing propaganda network. The relationship goes back more than a decade, when Fox held a regular commentary slot open for Trump to ... |
Oliver Willis | 11/30/2025 | 15 |
| An incomplete list of Musk’s insane promises for his robots If you believe Elon Musk—though, honestly, why would you ?—he is going to build eleventy billion humanoid robots that will do literally everything , ushering in an unprecedented era of ... |
Lisa Needham | 11/30/2025 | 107 |
| Cartoon: Kash Patel's girlfriend, your ride is here A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Kash Patel and Kristi Noem take corruption to new heights—... |
Jack Ohman | 11/30/2025 | 14 |
| Not serious enough to turn on the siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance ride still cost over $9,000 By � Tony Leys �for KFF
Elisabeth Yoder’s son, Darragh, was 15 months old in August when he developed what at first looked to his parents like hand, foot, and mouth disease. The common� |
KFF | 11/30/2025 | 138 |
| 11 times Karoline Leavitt earned her ‘propaganda princess’ nickname Since stepping into the role of White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt has revealed herself to be shameless enough to earn the moniker of “propaganda princess.” No matter the Trump ... |
Walter Einenkel | 11/30/2025 | 42 |
| Here’s why Latino voters are turning away from Trump We already knew Latino voters were drifting from President Donald Trump, pushed not just by his hard-edged deportation agenda —... |
Alex Samuels | 11/30/2025 | 160 |
| Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81 Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you� |
Denise Oliver Velez | 11/30/2025 | 135 |
| Cartoon: Just like Jesus would have wanted A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and ... |
Clay Bennett | 11/30/2025 | 25 |
| This Week in the War on Women, 11/23-29/25: Thanksgiving Week Open Thread Many Native women promote�the true story of Thanksgiving:� Ramona Peters : The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving: After Squanto’s aid with corn and other planting, the pilgrims had a ... |
elenacarlena | 11/29/2025 | 58 |
| Americans say 'no thanks' to red states President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ... |
Andrew Mangan | 11/29/2025 | 132 |