12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (207+ words) With a fresh boodle of money pried from Trump’s hands, Rep. Eli Crane is inadvertently drawing a sharp contrast between himself, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Trump. Crane is using all of that new Trump money to proclaim he…...

14+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1491+ words) It turns out, we have answers to this question. I imagine the first word that popped into your head was “racism”. And you’d be right. Studies do consistently show that racial resentment is one of the strongest single predictors of…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (402+ words) Only a stable Genius like President Trump could accomplish with a map and some crayons what Congress, previous dum dum presidents, courts and immigration reformers have failed to accomplish for decades. By extending the United States across Mexico, Canada, Greenland…...

16+ hour, 59+ min ago   (933+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. While perusing The Guardian this evening, I saw the essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, which makes sense of why of the so-called…...

18+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1551+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Lower Manhattan on the evening of 9/10/01 A former student of mine was in New York on business in September 2001, took the Staten Island ferry…...

3+ day, 5+ min ago   (782+ words) 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. The word gerontocracy, meaning a government run…...

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (469+ words) By “this” I mean a great piece here about the Epstein Files by FreedomUnited. In a nutshell it says: More than 100 lawmakers have signed a discharge petition to force a vote on legislation that would let Epstein survivors and state…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago   (539+ words) The 2026 midterm elections are now less than two months away. And every day as it approaches Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican Party are descending ever deeper into the Mariana Trench of disapproval. Trump’s polling is already worse than at…...

19+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1143+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Last weekend there was an organised action by a group of hundreds of mostly white men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocking access…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1647+ words) The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response. Such deaths typically occur…...