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Yesterday, as reported by many media outlets, the current sitting president of the United States, at the end of a 2hr meeting of his cabinet, said ranted the following, about Somali-Americans and any other Muslim-Americans generally, to gathered...

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 ...

So many of our ballots get thrown out in every election. So many voters have their registration canceled. MILLIONS. But voters in BLUE STATES can do something about it. Call your STATE REPRESENTATIVE and demand that they pass a state bill to support...

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...

Putin’s argument is that� 1) Russia is now winning 2) therefore, its ultimate victory is inevitable (and imminent) 3) Therefore, Arming Ukraine is useless. Actually, 1) while Rusia is ...

Good morning, beloved Newdists. I’ve spent the whole week guzzling soup and sleeping, and occasionally reading abject trash as a palate cleanser. It’s mostly worked. In fact, has helped prodigiously. I’m even feeling human, instead of feeling like wet...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara tried to reassure the city’s immigrant communities during a press conference on Tuesday. Responding to concerns over President Donald Trump’s racist new ...

It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the meandering mental mania that emanates from the mind of Donald Trump. Anyone observing his increasingly deranged behavior has to be concerned about the risk of harm that he is capable of to the...

As sure as the sun will rise, the Justice Department is going to figure out a way to reindict former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James—because why let a little ...

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...

House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to cover for Donald Trump after the president called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “ seriously retarded " during a Thanksgiving Day rant online. Johnson was asked about ...

Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday blamed a military commander for the apparent war crime the U.S. military committed in September in the Caribbean Sea, saying that it was Admiral Mitch Bradley,

President Donald Trump has long been all for bullying and demeaning the media and individual reporters, but since taking office it has become an administration-wide affair. In its latest attack on ...

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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...

Good Day, Gnuville! I hope you all had a pleasant Thanksgiving. 🥧🧡🍗 I’d like to open with this nice discussion about Thanksgiving by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. Something that really caught my interest and which...

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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...

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Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona held a press conference on Monday, taking� President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ...

How was your long holiday weekend? Nice? A good time to chill with friends and family, right?� Well, what if the day before your four-day vacation kicked off, you found out that you and your boss ...

President Donald Trump is pretty sure he just had the most perfect MRI of all time , but he can’t quite seem to remember what part of his most perfect body was scanned.� This, of course, raises ...

As the American people recover from their Thanksgiving feasts, Donald Trump and his Republican MAGA cult in Washington are demonstrating their ability to sink lower in morality, legality, and even holiday spirit, than anyone previously thought...

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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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��

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...