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A Vaguely Sane Kevin
Trump has made his Fed chair nomination amid the Powell lawsuit and other chaos.
I Spent 12 Hours in the Parking Lot Where Donald Trump’s Darkest Work Is Unfolding. They’re Hoping You Don’t Notice.
How a quintessentially American setting became an epicenter of cruelty.
There’s Something Unusual Happening in Thrift Stores These Days
Secondhand clothing isn’t the solution it might seem to be.
Davos Is a Thing Again
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting is all over the news for the first time in a while.
RFK Jr. is now a wellness guru for Republicans in Washington
Conservatives in the capital are taking up the health secretary’s advice, eating their vegetables and eschewing pharmaceuticals.
A meeting with RFK Jr. set off recriminations inside doctors’ lobbying arm
Leaders of the American Medical Association want a seat at the health secretary’s table. Some AMA members would prefer to ostracize him.
Trump proposal signals Medicare austerity
Health insurers who thought Trump would rescue their Medicare businesses got a rude awakening Monday.
The psychedelic medicine revolution that wasn’t
Believers in the healing potential of the mind-altering drugs thought RFK Jr. was the answer to their prayers. They’re still waiting.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Trump in Iowa tries to shift the conversation back to the economy
A brief swing through the farm state underscored administration fears about the midterms.
Americans give Trump low marks on handling of economy as midterms likely to center on affordability
Sixty-one percent of voters told a CNN poll released Friday that they disapprove of the way Trump is handling the economy.
Vance tries to thread affordability needle in Rust Belt
The vice president fine-tunes Trump’s economic message, but he’s only got so much wiggle room.
Ex-Trump voters swung hard to Democrats over costs in NJ & VA, new research shows
Voters who backed Donald Trump in 2024 and swung to Democrats in this year’s Virginia and New Jersey elections did so over economic concerns, according to focus groups conducted by a Democratic pollster and obtained by POLITICO.
Elon Musk flails as his Epstein emails surface
Republican megadonor Elon Musk spent the weekend trying to change the narrative about his interactions with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein after emails surfaced showing Musk arranging to attend a party at Epstein’s notorious private island.
The emails, which were sent between 2012 and 2014, were released Friday by the Department of Justice, and they show Musk discussing attending a party hosted by Epstein, who was by then a convicted sex offender.
Cartoon: ICE, ICE, bunny
A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Let’s all laugh at Fox News anchor’s ridiculous take on ‘Melania’
Former White House press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany went into full propaganda mode Monday, hyping first lady Melania Trump’s new documentary and adding to increasingly dubious stories about stellar ticket sales.
“My mom went to it this weekend in Florida,” McEnany said on Fox News. “She said not only was the theater packed, it was, you know, standing room only—if you could, like, try to sneak in the back of the theater. People were cheering through it.
MAGA poor sports unveil their awful Super Bowl halftime alternative
Have you been waiting with bated breath to find out who would perform at Turning Point USA’s halftime show? Lo, these long months where we were promised that this alternative halftime show would be epic, but the lineup was a mystery until Monday, when we learned about this absolutely killer lineup: Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett.
Real A-listers here, right?
If you had to Google everyone on this list except Kid Rock, you’re not alone.
The Recap: Kennedy Center gets a Trump makeover, and a Democrat special election win
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.
Shady new ad campaign paints ICE thugs as ‘friends and neighbors’
This will totally change the public’s mind about ICE’s handiwork.
Democrats’ blowout victory in special election spells doom for GOP
The win isn’t just significant for how much Democrats won by, but for how it happened in the first place.
The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
Masked men with guns are swarming through American cities. They are doing so in the name of enforcing immigration law. There is no justification, however, for federal agents to hide their identity from the public that pays for their weapons.
In an interview with CNN, Thom Tillis, the Republican senator from North Carolina, who has become an occasional Trump critic, said that he didn’t have a problem with federal agents wearing masks. “I’ve seen people dox me.
A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good
Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Because no country has attempted such a ban before, knowing the effects in advance is impossible—and they may be hard to assess even years after implementation.
Trump Puts On A Gaslighting Clinic After GOP Election Loss In Texas
The before and after spin of the president’s comments about the special election can give you whiplash.
Speaker Johnson Faces Tough Choices On Partial Government Shutdown And Debate Over ICE
House Speaker Mike Johnson under pressure as as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations.
FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of “Trump’s Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms”: Ari Berman
We speak with Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman about the shocking FBI raid on an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia. Federal agents were seeking records related to the 2020 presidential election, which President Donald Trump continues to falsely claim he won despite his loss to Joe Biden that year. During his efforts to overturn the election results, Trump pressured local officials to “find” him an additional 11,780 votes.
“Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity
The Justice Department on Friday released an additional 3 million pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration says it was the final release of Epstein files, even though some 2 million more documents remain unreleased. The latest batch reveals new details about Epstein’s connections to the rich and powerful, including Hollywood figures, tech billionaires, public officials and more.
“Leave Our City Now”: Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in hundreds of demonstrations across the United States this weekend as protests continue against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Democracy Now! was in the streets of Minneapolis on Friday speaking with protesters who marched in subzero temperatures.