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How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media
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 ...
Alix Breeden 12/02/2025 35
More people are caring for dying loved ones at home. A New Orleans nonprofit is showing them how.
By � Halle Parker, Verite News, �for� KFF Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay ...
KFF 12/02/2025 12
Cartoon: Couples therapy
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ...
Mike Luckovich 12/02/2025 16
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
Morning Open thread Tuesday December 2, songs with a female's name in the title
Welcome to � Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ...
Ozarkblue 12/02/2025 142
No One Should Be Shocked: Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was
Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been...
bison 12/01/2025 29
World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum)
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...
sfbob 12/01/2025 17
Trump tariffs gut manufacturing as jobs shrink for 9 months straight
The Institute for Supply Management released the results on Monday of its most recent survey of the manufacturing industry, revealing a loss of jobs for the ninth month in a row. The trend under ...
Oliver Willis 12/01/2025 83
Cartoon: Feeling thankful
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Nick Anderson 12/01/2025 16
Mutual Aid or as I say Community
Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of...
Smurf 12/01/2025 4
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
Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete Hegseth
Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona held a press conference on Monday, taking� President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ...
Walter Einenkel 12/01/2025 74
For those grieving the death of a loved one when the world seems to be on fire.
“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...
Scott Janssen 12/01/2025 9
Can things get any worse for Alina Habba?
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 ...
Lisa Needham 12/01/2025 96
White House gives weird new spin on Trump's mysterious MRI
The White House is claiming that there’s nothing at all weird about the mysterious MRI that President Donald Trump underwent in October , with press secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming that it was ...
Walter Einenkel 12/01/2025 160
Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?
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 ...
Lisa Needham 12/01/2025 148
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
The Second Warning
When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...
sbanks 12/01/2025 247
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
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Tom Tomorrow 12/01/2025 28