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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Holiday Movies Years ago when we all watched the same TV channels, it seemed that all the shows and sports would go on hiatus between Thanksgiving and New Years. When VCRs and DVD players debuted, I began a movie ... |
lunasminion | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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: 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: Pete's boats A cartoon by Tim Campbell.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Tim Campbell | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| New Day Cafe: Things That Appeal, But Are Not Bananas Good morning, Newdists!� Aren’t you lot cold, going around all Newd and such?� Get yer clothes on, grab a cuppa and warm up with us for a bit! |
The Marti | 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 |
| 📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) � will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and ... |
nomandates | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| This Week in the War on Women: Open Thread Open thread this week. Please put links in comments.
Anytime you hit a paywall on articles linked in diaries or comments (or anywhere online) try using Archive.Today to see if you can get free ... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 12/06/2025 | 31 |
| 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 |
| Sudan The Forgotten War(s). The history of conflict in Sudan ... |
rebel ga | 12/06/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe - Saturday: Birds, Fishes, Flowers & Waters. Oh My! 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... |
Crimson Quillfeather | 12/06/2025 | 138 |
| Small victories- Starbucks pays up, minimum wage to address housing, challenge to a turncoat, +... www.levernews.com/… Hopefully, just the beginning… Largest worker protection settlement in NYC NYC’s Department of Consumer & Worker Protection has ordered Starbucks to pay roughly $35 million to 15,000 + workers for denying workers stable work... |
Robpos | 12/06/2025 | 3 |
| 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 |
| Four Reasons I Am Not Sweating the Supreme Court Texas Decision GNR Before I get to this week’s good news (and there was a lot!) I want to talk about why I am not sweating SCOTUS’s awful decision to let Texas Gerrymandering stand. First, this SCOTUS is terrible and I only expect terrible from it. I keep my mental... |
GoodNewsRoundup | 12/06/2025 | 174 |
| Don't Count on the Supreme Court to Uphold Birthright Citizenship Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will review President Trump’s Executive Order stripping the children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States of their citizenship. Don’t ... |
Matthew D Jones | 12/05/2025 | 37 |
| 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 |
| The Calvinball 6 Agreed to Review Tr*mps Birthright Citizenship Order. Let the Games Begin. "All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Amendment XIV Section 1. A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese... |
commander ogg | 12/05/2025 | 131 |
| Earth Matters: Fuel economy retreat feeds Trump's energy bonfire; plus a Stewart & Kolbert convo Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from... |
Meteor Blades | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| 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 |
| New Day CAfé: In the Soup Does the weather have you craving soup? It does me. Here are some that look tasty.
Greek Beef & Barley Soup
Recipe. �[3:46]
... |
Youffraita | 12/05/2025 | 165 |
| Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Racism GREG ABBOTT, ET AL. v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, ET AL. “Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors. First, the District Court failed to honor the presumption of... |
Alan Singer | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| GNR for Friday, December 5, 2025: Hope makes a difference Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ... |
chloris creator | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| Supreme Court Grants Stay; Gerrymandered and Racist Texas Maps Are Okay Super bad redistricting news thanks to our lovely Extreme Court this evening. By a 6-3 decision, the racist Texas maps that will cost us between 2 to 5 seats WILL go into effect for 2026. This is a temporary stay until the Extreme Court rules on the... |
bilboteach | 12/04/2025 | 133 |
| The Worst Murder Ever Committed by Republicans. It took almost 80 years, but the Republicans have done it. They have killed trust. Trust in Institutions. Trust in Truth. Trust in Competence and Ability. Today the FBI made an arrest in the “January 6 Bomber” case. Immediately all the cynical comments... |
zenbassoon | 12/04/2025 | 16 |
| New Day Cafe - Fun With Street View Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ... |
foresterbob | 12/04/2025 | 174 |
| Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to... |
Mokurai | 12/04/2025 | 98 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Whimsy Us A Thing Or Two Good morning, Cafe!� Grab a cuppa, snag yer whimsies, and join us for a bit!
All are welcome to join the fun, the silliness, the ... |
The Marti | 12/03/2025 | 208 |
| Need Some Early Holiday Cheer? Special Delivery! December 3rd Good News Roundup (GNR) No matter what holiday people celebrate this time of year is usually celebrated. The days are getting super short and the harvest is in. For us Americans, Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror and ... |
bilboteach | 12/03/2025 | 88 |
| 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 |
| Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally. “Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post: |
Black Kos | 12/02/2025 | 176 |
| Will We Ever Amend Again? In “US Constitution: Hiding in Plain Sight,” Daniel Lazare noted the difference between the Constitution’s preamble and what comes next. The Preamble, for instance, seems to advance a straight-forward theory of popular sovereignty in which ‘we the... |
lukepickrell | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions 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... |
Meteor Blades | 12/02/2025 | 199 |
| Stoppard, the bard... Sir Tom is dead I didn't notice any notice of the notice, but Sir Tom Stoppard died a few days ago, https://www.bbc.com/... ... preceeded by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, reportedly peacefully, and surrounded by family. He is due his eternal rest, in my opinion. He... |
Murphoney | 12/02/2025 | 10 |
| New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh? |
The Marti | 12/02/2025 | 147 |
| IAN: My Very Long Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl. |
bigjacbigjacbigjac | 12/01/2025 | 24 |
| 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 |
| Oligarchs pissing me off, yet again Once again, something online is driving me nuts. Today it’s an oligarch is making billions off a service, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. In this case it's Meta. It's always one of the top few. Their product Facebook Messenger is... |
LilBoyBlu | 12/01/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: The war on woke As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 12/01/2025 | 28 |
| Time to Stop Worshipping the Constitution � � �The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford , which held that African Americans, ... |
Matthew D Jones | 12/01/2025 | 24 |
| From the GNR Newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup Welcome back friends to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR Discord ) bring you all the good news to start your ... |
Jessiestaf | 12/01/2025 | 97 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Beanspiration (pt. 2) Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration.
In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ... |
Chrislove | 11/30/2025 | 250 |
| Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81 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 you� |
Denise Oliver Velez | 11/30/2025 | 135 |
| After Trump, what then? Reforming the Supreme Court Once Trump is out of office – and one way or another, he will be – and Democrats have regained the Federal trifecta of Presidency, House, and Senate – and they will – it will be time to act to ensure that this never happens again. While restraining the... |
psychbob | 11/30/2025 | 20 |
