Why conservatives get so mad at movies
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. This past week, multibillionaire and top Republican donor Elon Musk had a meltdown because director Christopher Nolan cast Black and transgender people as mythological characters in his adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey.
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20 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ Al Gore grapples with the (big) wrinkle of AI
Former Vice President Al Gore is knocking on wood. Seated in front of portraits of Johnny Cash and Prince inside The Pinnacle, a Nashville music venue, Gore told Inside Climate News that despite the current state of both national and global politics, he believes humanity can and will surmount the challenge of human-induced climate change. But that’s not the whole story, he said.
Florida’s corrupt gift to Trump, and Jesus Christ, these emails …
It seems like every week we have a story about a lawsuit over Trump’s desecration of Washington D.C., and this week is no exception. We’ve also got the Justice Department doing new sleazy things. And then we’ve got the secretary of agriculture using her official email to praise Jesus to every department employee. Sadly, that’s probably going to start happening every week as well.
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State officials demand transparency as businesses get billions in Trump tariff refunds
The administration could potentially hand back over $166 billion following a Supreme Court decision ruling the tariffs illegal. By Kevin Hardy for Stateline The fiscal leaders of several states are demanding transparency and consumer fairness as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to refund billions in international tariffs following a recent Supreme Court loss.
Trump admits he doesn’t care, and Hegseth demands $1.5 trillion
President Donald Trump continued to show signs of weakness as the fruits of his administration continue to rot in public view. While his Cabinet pathetically sputtered in hearings and interviews—unable to answer even the simplest questions—Trump himself dared to say something he’s never said before: the truth. And it was all on video. ‘I don’t think about anybody’: Trump is…
Trump finally admits it’s always been America last
The Conversation is a weekly dive into the most popular stories on Daily Kos and what it tells us about the national political environment. This week, President Donald Trump told both the biggest truth and the biggest lie of his presidency while answering a single question. Asked whether he thought about Americans’ financial situation when considering a deal to end his idiotic and…
Celebrating Garifuna Arts and Culture Appreciation Month
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 the Caribbean. Back in 2019, I wrote about the Garifuna people. At the time, I noted that, “Though more than one-half of the students enrolled in the class were of either Caribbean birth or…
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Colorado governor commutes election denier’s sentence after Trump pressure
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest instance of the president using his powers to reward those who echoed his baseless claims of mass fraud as the cause of his 2020 loss. Trump has championed the case of Peters, a 70-year-old former county clerk who was sentenced to…
Musk and Trump killed USAID—and they’ve got blood on their hands
The scope of the destruction at the United States Agency for International Development is almost unimaginable. President Donald Trump, multibillionaire Elon Musk, and the DOGE boys slashed and burned the foreign aid program. That has already led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and new reports indicate it has also led to a spike in deadly violence in Africa. A new study in…
Supreme Court rejects Virginia’s bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican…
Trump wants to pay off Jan 6. rioters and punish ‘treasonous’ reporters
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump secures reparations for Jan. 6 rioters—out of your wallet The DOJ is now a puppet of the president to be turned loose on anyone who’s displeased him. Black voter turnout soars amid GOP’s racist map-rigging Republican lawmakers are in the Finding Out stage of…
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Ben Shapiro is a sinking ship—and he’s taking MAGA down with him
Right-wing podcaster and co-founder of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro lashed out at his fellow conservatives Friday—the latest in a series of high-profile conflicts between conservative media personalities. Shapiro’s diatribe came in response to reports of problems at his company, which launched several years ago with lofty ambitions of being a conservative answer to “woke” media.