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| Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE.
By� Mel Leonor Barclay �and � Shefali Luthra �... |
The19th | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Trump’s anti-climate policies are driving up insurance costs for homeowners, say experts Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits.
By� Marcus Baram �for Capital & ... |
Capital and Main | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ is tarnishing fast Republicans were forced on the defensive this week after a slew of new economic data confirmed what regular Americans already know: President Donald Trump’s economy is a mismanaged disaster.�
... |
Max Burns | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Sean Duffy once defended Congress’s power of the purse. Now he defies it. As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation ... |
ProPublica | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Bezos thinks big donation makes it okay to poison a lagoon How many billionaires does it take to fill a lagoon with millions of gallons of industrial wastewater?�
Apparently, just one.�
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has caused quite a stir in Florida’s ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Cartoon: Okay, grandpa ... let's get you to bed A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Watch this Trump Cabinet meeting devolve into ass-kissing ... |
Clay Jones | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| What Tennessee’s special election tells us about 2026 Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture.
Republican ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists' A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.
by � Tony Schick ,� Oregon ... |
ProPublica | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Cartoon: Naughty to nice list A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ... |
Mike Luckovich | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Even apparent war crimes won’t stop the GOP from defending Hegseth Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Republicans ... |
Emily Singer | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Cartoon: Pete's boats A cartoon by Tim Campbell.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Tim Campbell | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: Too tired for a third term A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Jack Ohman | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: Tick, tick, tick ... A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� 'Time is out’: Democrat rips GOP’s health care ... |
Clay Bennett | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke' � 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 ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know.
Conservatives have spent the last week ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/06/2025 | 45 |
| Cartoon: No survivors A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Jack Ohman | 12/06/2025 | 6 |
| The Top Ten Reasons Why Donald Trump Received the FIFA Peace Prize Trump Deserved It, Too! In case you missed this story. Trump was also up against some tough competition. The Top Ten Reasons Trump Deserved the FIFA Peace Prize #10 — For Trump’s Grace Under Pressure #9 — Well… Because #8 — Trump Likes Getting... |
JekyllnHyde | 12/06/2025 | 23 |
| Has Trump Already Pardoned the DC Pipe Bomber? It has been nearly five years since Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection against the United States, exhorting his MAGA cult followers to storm the Capitol in order to undermine democracy and retain his authoritarian grip on power. On that day... |
News Corpse | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains By � Amy Maxmen �for KFF The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common ... |
KFF | 12/06/2025 | 52 |
| HHS and its brain-wormed boss 'deadnamed' former Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name. They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 4 |
| Facts on the "War on Drugs' It's awfully hard to get facts now days so I thought I'd do some of the FACT thing. FACTS on the "War" on drugs: WHAT: There is an scandalously enormous amount of dangerous, deadly and illegal drugs pouring into the USA. WHY: The American people want... |
Player | 12/06/2025 | 4 |
| Jury-shopping with Jeanine, and abortion-pill liars get a pass Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back.
It’s another bleak week in the courts, ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/06/2025 | 10 |
| Mad Marjorie says that Trump was "furious" with her over the Epstein files during a phone call https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-trump-052955263.html "He was extremely angry at me," the Georgia Republican told '60 Minutes' in a preview of her first national interview since announcing plans to resign. In a preview... |
djbigf | 12/06/2025 | 10 |
| Cartoon: Off duty A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Clay Bennett | 12/06/2025 | 11 |
| Smoke on the Water: Fire in His Lies So wrathful, so mighty is our First Felon, he’s blown a chunk of our regressively culled taxes to immolate a skiff that looked to be lugging a ‘cargo’ of 11 souls toward Suriname. (That is, DIRECTLY AWAY FROM US.) Which vessel he, Trump, paints... |
Inspector Clueso | 12/06/2025 | 1 |
| 4 Republican states will help Homeland Security obtain driver’s license records Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio agreed to aid the Trump administration as part of a legal settlement.
By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline
Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump ... |
Stateline | 12/06/2025 | 21 |
| The quiet part out loud before Red States become Confederate States of America, Part Deux You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 21 |
| Great APR Today by Greg Dworkin. However, Trump's Approval Numbers Are WORSE than Reported. 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... |
Merlin196360 | 12/06/2025 | 51 |
| Clips of the week: Mark Kelly hits back at Hegseth, and Trump's drug price doozy 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 ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| Make your head spin Each new day brings new dread. |
JohnnyPiano | 12/06/2025 | 3 |
| Should we be panicking about birthright citizenship or not? The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/06/2025 | 318 |
| Blowing Up Precedent, American citizen risk very real I frequent Yahoo comments pages a little too much, can’t help but throw shots at the idiot MAGAs and their commitment to tRUmp’s surreality. My most recent “fuck you MAGA” line has been in relation to the war crimes/murder in the Caribbean spree our... |
humbud | 12/06/2025 | 4 |
| The “Art-of-the-Deal” Foreign Policy: Trump's Extraction-First Strategy A Strategy for the Bosses The newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (NS), far from being a sober blueprint for safeguarding American interests, reads like a corporate memo: “What can the world deliver us, and how much can we take?” Under the... |
Shawn510 | 12/06/2025 | 14 |
| Caribbean Matters: The heinous boat bombings continue Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/06/2025 | 118 |
| Cartoon: A MAGA dilemma A cartoon by David Horsey.
Related |� Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message ... |
David Horsey | 12/06/2025 | 20 |
| The upside-down world of MAGA Darnold Trump’s approval ratings have been dropping notably over the past year. But before you get too optimistic, please remember that there are folks out there who say that they don’t like the ... |
Perlinator | 12/06/2025 | 13 |
| Tacky assisted living... when will Vance get TF off the couch and seek 25th Amendment solutions? Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 41 |
| Exporting Trump's ignorance to allies who aren't buying In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s ... |
sabrina haake | 12/06/2025 | 3 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,386: The White House has become Russia House annex again Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on December 4 to 5. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 137 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other strike drones, of which about 90 were Shaheds, from... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 37 |
| Campaign of terror continues—hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. Based on past abductions like these, authorities presume the ... |
FreedomUnited | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| Thomas Paine & Trmp … the Treasury Department will give $1,000 to the accounts for children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028. Those accounts become the property of a child's guardian and "will track a stock index and allow for additional private contributions... |
gmoke | 12/05/2025 | 1 |
| Not My Daddy, Just an Airbnb Guest Trump isn’t anyone’s daddy — he’s just a temporary tenant with borrowed keys. The presidency isn’t a family title, and the White House isn’t his forever home. He’s basically a short-term Airbnb guest with delusions of royalty, mistaking a... |
bison | 12/05/2025 | 10 |
| FUN FACT: Donald Trump is the First Rapist to Win the FIFA Peace Prize! 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... |
ShowerCap | 12/05/2025 | 71 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! Late Night Snark: Welcome to Our Banana Republic Edition "In the new Gallup poll, [Trump’s] approval rating is down to 36 percent with 60 percent disapproval. Trump's underwater in every category. According to a new YouGov poll, he's very unpopular... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/05/2025 | 163 |
| Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message flops Republicans are in disarray as they begin to realize that they may lose the House in ... |
Emily Singer | 12/05/2025 | 95 |
| The World Cup sucks up to Trump, and it sucks Remember when we learned in 2018 that the United States would host the 2026 World Cup along with Mexico and Canada? Back then, it seemed like an amazing opportunity to be part of an inherently ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/05/2025 | 156 |
| Cartoon: Leaked MRIs Support � my � Patreon � for early access and exclusives. Follow me on � Mastodon ,� ... |
BrianMcFadden | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2025 | 172 |
| Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democratic Plan to Add 12 New Supreme Court Justices - That Doesn't Exist The frequency with which Donald Trump deliberately lies in order to keep his glassy-eyed flock of MAGA disciples both dumbed down and fired up is really pretty impressive. It's a machine gun style of disseminating disinformation that his fellow... |
News Corpse | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| Young Americans Want a Reboot: Can They Build a Majority Big Enough to Overrule Big Money? Young people are furious. A survey released this week by the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that under-30 Americans are “a generation under profound strain” who’ve lost pretty much any confidence in government or corporate institutions. By a 57%... |
thomhartmann | 12/05/2025 | 33 |
| THE TRUMP REGIME Wants to Take America Back - To the 1970s So They Can Buy Crappy Cars and Stuff One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the... |
News Corpse | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday Must-Seethe TV Stephen Colbert, who still has six months to tear into these idiots—and whose show has a good chance of outlasting Captain Cankles and his bloated carcass that short-circuits MRI machines—previews the reboot of a beloved 1960’s comedy...... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ... |
kos | 12/03/2025 | 118 |
| A CALL TO ACTION: The Trump White House Launches a 'Media Bias Offender Tipline' - Let's Use It! The battle against biased media is a continuing and exhausting ordeal during the administration of Donald Trump, who frequently refers to the press in Stalinist terms as "the enemy of the people." No American president has been more hostile toward the... |
News Corpse | 12/03/2025 | 27 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday Just a quick note above the fold: Holy smokes, Batman. Behn’s MAGA opponent only won by a handful of points. In Tennessee. In a Trump +22 district. My, my, my, look at all those shiny blue arrows... No “conservative tears” in our mug this morning.... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/03/2025 | 148 |
| Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026 How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald... |
kos | 12/02/2025 | 339 |
| DEMENTIA J. TRUMP Says Affordability is a Scam. And Also that He is the Affordability President? 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... |
News Corpse | 12/02/2025 | 15 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/02/2025 | 73 |
| YUCK! Pete Hegseth's Disgusting, Bloodthirsty, 'Christmas Wish' Will Nauseate You 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... |
News Corpse | 12/01/2025 | 23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SHEESH! Trump's White House Website Now Has a Page to Attack Media that Tells the Truth About Him Presidents throughout history have had some rocky relationships with the free press. It's a natural conflict given the media's mission to report truthfully about everything that a political leader does and says, and the leader's determination to always... |
News Corpse | 11/30/2025 | 14 |
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