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| 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 |
| Costco sues Trump admin seeking tariff refunds before SCOTUS rules if they’re illegal Costco has sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out. From... |
AKALib | 12/01/2025 | 109 |
| 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 |
| Europe Might Leave America Hanging By Dumping $2.34 Trillion In U.S. Debt If Trump Sells Out Ukraine This doesn’t sound good... Daily Express European nations are reportedly weighing the "nuclear option" of destabilizing the American economy should Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and compromise continental security. Discussions between American and... |
PvtJarHead | 12/01/2025 | 311 |
| The decline in Trump's approval stuns CNN's numbers guy. The GOP is staring at a midterm abyss In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/01/2025 | 149 |
| 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 |
| NEW VIDEO: MRFF supports Mark Kelly 100%, with a few choice words for ESPN's Stephen A. Smith! NOTE: For anyone who hasn’t yet heard about ESPN's Stephen A. Smith’s despicable comments about Mark Kelly, read this very short article from The Hill: “Stephen A. Smith rips Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video: ‘How dare you do that.’” |
Mikey Weinstein | 12/01/2025 | 73 |
| 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 |
| PWB Peeps: Moonday Wiff Da Furbutts Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.��
We can haz funz!� All ob uz!
... |
The Marti | 12/01/2025 | 84 |
| 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 |
| At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/01/2025 | 119 |
| '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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes a Russian naval weapons facility Ukraine sent drones to Dagestan to bomb the Dagdiesel torpedo factory on the Caspian Sea. A plethora of drones hitting Russian soldiers. Ukraine strikes a Russian bridge-laying vehicle. There is video of the evacuation of the shadow fleet tanker Kairos... |
quaoar | 12/01/2025 | 95 |
| 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 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after... |
justiceputnam | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hegseth fired JAG officers because they can't handle the truth: War Crime or Murder on the high seas Was it a traditional wooden Trini fishing boat, not even a “go-fast” boat? So video of strike #1 used for propaganda is unclassified but video of strike #2 is classified? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 128 |
| Infectious Updates: 12/1/2025 Ethiopia's death toll� From Marburg virus is rising.� The virus, in the same family as Ebola, circulates in fruit bats, occasionally jumping to humans and sparking an outbreak.� There is no vaccine ... |
strawbale | 12/01/2025 | 31 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, River City Hash Mondays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � River City Hash Mondays!
... |
justiceputnam | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| New Day Cafe: Piers Faccini and Balake Sissoko Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ... |
samanthab | 12/01/2025 | 151 |
| Habba Disqualified! NJ breathes easier Well this is good news to wake up on a Monday to: https://meidasnews.com/news/unanimous-appellate-court-upholds-disqualifying-alina-habba-as-u-s-attorney Unanimous Appellate Court Upholds Disqualifying Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney A major loss for the... |
CathyM | 12/01/2025 | 87 |
| Xi To Trump: Hey Dummy, You Can Be Authoritarian And Love Clean Power, Too Oh the irony, it burns. The President of the Greatest Nation on Earth is alternately redecorating the White House (or what remains of it), committing war crimes, and dismantling various domestic clean energy industries, while leaving a great, gaping... |
JerseyDem25 | 12/01/2025 | 24 |
| A Leaky Ship Is a Sinking Ship: Nine Examples in the Badministration No administration likes leaks, except for the leaks they send out on purpose, such as trial balloons in order to find out how popular an idea might be, or to smear a foe or to praise a friend. The ... |
chloris creator | 12/01/2025 | 57 |
| 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 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday "The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/01/2025 | 130 |
| Why stop there? Free Felicidad Noriega's hubby. Oh wait, he's dead, Jaime. Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad was arraigned for allegedly shoplifting buttons, one day after the former Panamanian dictator was convicted of dealing drugs for a cocaine cartel. Much like Nicolae Ceaușescu’s plumbing fetish, there are always... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 4 |