Fake ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants
Families across America are being terrorized by criminals posing as immigration enforcement agents. These incidents have skyrocketed in the last year, fueled by President Donald Trump’s decision to target vulnerable communities as part of his racist anti-immigrant agenda. Noticias Telemundo investigated crime reports where perpetrators pretended to be from immigration enforcement agencies…
Daily Kos 24th anniversary: 11 videos to enrage and motivate
Daily Kos has now been around for two dozen years, and for much of that time, it has been a community under siege from right-wing extremists. The tea party movement gave way to the MAGA conspiracy theorists, but the fact of the matter is that while public discourse seems to have dropped a few notches below the Mendoza line, many things remain the same. Republicans continue to promote a…
President Grandpa keeps going to the doctor
President Donald Trump on Tuesday ventured to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the third time in the past 13 months, in what the infamously lying White House press office is calling a “routine annual dental and medical assessment” that is “part of his regular preventive health care.” Despite the White House’s claims, the frequency of Trump’s apparent physicals is raising…
24 years ago: Markos Moulitsas started a blog called Daily Kos
On May 26, 2002, some young fellow named Markos Moulitsas started a blog, which he called his “daily KOS.” It was on that day at 12:07 PM PT that he wrote this inaugural post: A few posts, comments, and writers later, and Daily Kos has become a harbinger of modern progressive media—and still is 24 years later.
Sites tied to equality movements join list of America’s most endangered historic places
The Stonewall National Monument, the President’s House Site and the Women’s Rights National Historic Park are among 11 sites on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2026 list, announced on May 20, marks America’s 250th anniversary with the foundational principle that everyone is…
The perks of trying to destroy democracy
A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Trump finally admits it’s always been America last…
These 9 people actually deserve money from Trump’s shady slush fund
President Donald Trump’s disturbingly corrupt fund to disburse nearly $1.8 billion to traitorous insurrectionists and other Trump loyalists who tried to steal the 2020 election may be on the rocks, as even the sycophantic Republicans in Congress know that letting Trump pay people who broke the law is political suicide. But what if I told you there are people who actually deserve some of the…
This Memorial Day, remember …
A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | JD Vance makes ‘solemn promise’ that no one cares about…
Woke mob defeats Trump’s team—3 times
It’s extremely suboptimal that the only way the constitutional order is being preserved these days is by masses of plaintiffs filing lawsuit after lawsuit against the administration’s flagrantly illegal conduct. While the administration has fought nearly everything tooth and nail, a few settlements have slipped through. President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked diversity and wokeness…
6 years ago: George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chauvin knelt on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for nearly 10 minutes during an arrest, despite Floyd repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe.” The murder, which was captured on video by horrified and angry bystanders who pleaded Chauvin to stop, triggered worldwide protests against…
Here lies congressional consent
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump team lies to evade law limiting Iran war…
The Gray Lady is a Trump fangirl
The New York Times has a long history of producing journalism that has changed the course of politics around the globe. And it has done this during Donald Trump’s two presidential terms, exposing inconvenient truths as well as his corruption. But unfortunately, in the 16 months since Trump was sworn in for a second term, the outlet has also embarrassed itself by advancing pro-Trump falsehoods…
This red district is souring on Republicans
Last November, I wrote this: And now a new poll from Taven Research offers a clue as to just how far the GOP has fallen in the state. In Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, likely voters were asked whether they would vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate if a congressional election were held today. They split evenly, 50% to 50%. To be clear, this isn’t the Omaha…
From clergy to coaches, states debate who should report child abuse and neglect
The biggest dispute centers on information from religious rites such as confession. By Robbie Sequeira for Stateline Conversations with survivors of sexual abuse left Missouri state Sen. Tracy McCreery wondering what could have prevented the harm, leading her to sponsor a bill that would require clergy and religious workers to report suspected child abuse or neglect.
65 years ago: JFK vowed to send astronauts to the moon
On May 25, 1961, during an address to Congress, President John F. Kennedy called for a “great new American enterprise”: sending astronauts to the moon and returning them safely home. During a subsequent September speech at Rice University in Houston, Kennedy delivered one of the defining speeches of the 20th century. “We choose to go to the moon,” Kennedy declared. “We choose to go…
3 medical routines that older people may not need
By Paula Span for KFF Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was in “reasonably good health,” and the risks of the procedure — bleeding, reaction to anesthesia, perforation of her colon — were fairly low.
A momentous victory!
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Americans don’t want a data center in their backyard
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. Let me make you an offer. I want to build a warehouse of machinery that will fill the ears of every passerby with the soft whine of industrial noise, will drink up your water reserves so much it lowers the…
Infidel Castro
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | US announces criminal case against former Cuban President Raúl Castro…
More than 100,000 American kids have had a parent detained in immigration sweeps, report estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting. By Mica Rosenberg for ProPublica Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood…