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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...

The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Happened in the 1980s You've seen the arguments. Seed oils are poison. Sugar is the devil. Fast food destroyed America. The government ruined everything. Or maybe it's all Big Pharma's fault. Everyone's got a villain....

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...

A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...

Shortly after American-born Robert Prevost was elected Pope, J.D. Vance and his wife stopped in to visit with the new pontiff. In addition to a Chicago Bears shirt, Vance brought the American Pope two books by St. Augustine. This gift represented a...

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...

The Daily Mail has an exclusive on the rampaging incompetence of the hiring process going on at ICE. The nicest thing that can be said about the new applicants at ICE is they are misfit toys. The truth is that most are mentally, morally, and physically...

Russia has been selling off some of its gold reserves to finance the war, but even that desperate move won’t work forever. Russia’s central bank has about 2,330 tons of gold in its reserves (worth about $300 billion) and the National Wealth Fund held...

UPDATE: Friday, Dec 5, 2025 · 12:54:23 AM +00:00 · PvtJarHead INSIDENOVA D.C. pipe bomb suspect Brian Jerome Cole Jr. lived with his mother in a five-bedroom house outside Dale City and worked as a bail bondsman in a family business. (snip) Cole's...

A Ukrainian drone takes out a Russian Mig-29 at a Crimean airfield. Behind the scenes European leader have had their fill of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Incompetents. They need to start saying some of these things publicly. Maybe Ukraine could...

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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, ...

I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into gas chambers and making virulently antisemitic,...

A third oil tanker came under attack near the coast of Turkey. Two others were crippled in an earlier strike. Also, a fourth tanker has been slowly sinking off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. An update from the tanker off the coast of Senegal: 2/...

Ukraine struck the oil refinery in the Tambov region, which is about 420 km southeast of Moscow. A section of the Druzhba pipeline was destroyed by Ukraine. Russia hit this church in Kostiantynivka. All those fiber-optic cables laying around came in...

Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface....

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...

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...

We begin today with� Lucy Campbell �of The Guardian reporting on new ICE actions in the city of New Orleans. Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a ...

We begin today with� Heather Cox Richardson �writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. In the ...

from a woman who eventually became of u.s. representative because of her birth, to a woman who is willing to stand up to the cruelty being dealt by the taco administration. it took bravery at a local eatery in tucson to stand face to face with i.c.e....

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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 ...

What with Trump showing increasing signs of dementia and general physical deterioration, thought naturally turns to the question of what would happen if he cannot complete the three years remaining in his term? The obvious answer is that the Vice...

In May 1943 my father was flight crew on an allied bomber that was shot out of the sky in Germany by a Nazi fighter plane while returning from a raid on Hamburg. The Luftwaffe fighter pilot did not shoot the parachuting “enemies of the Reich” as my...

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 ...

Just released. WTF are the masks and chair for? Like something out of a horror movie.

Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.

President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ...

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...

Republicans' unimpressive victory in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District Tuesday night has the party terrified, with lawmakers and strategists alike fearing that a number of House races once ...

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 ...

So, now that we’ve entered the Daily Televised Nap phase of the Thousand Year Reich, I was thinking it’s probably time for that difficult talk about taking the keys to the death cult away from grandpa. No? Well, then, I suppose we may as well launch...

I know the norm on KOS is that every diary should be a thoughtful essay of some length. I’ve been a member for 16 years and had several “Recc’d” articles over the years with a few even earning their brief moment at the very top of the Rec List. I am...

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ...

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Hello! I’m among those filling in for the intrepid Oz Perspective while he’s indisposed. Here we go!

Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party. After the transportation secretary told people to “ dress up ” at the airport as a way to make air travel better ...

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Kash Patel and Kristi Noem take corruption to new heights—...

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.

UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...

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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 ...

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing on when, exactly, she’s going to get around ...

President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo. McCrery Architects, you’re fired.

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ...

So, Jim Jordan is demanding Jack Smith appear before his oversight committee, in a CLOSED DOOR meeting. And they request the documentation he possesses in Trump’s theft of National Security documents case, be turned over to the committee. For oversight...