8+ hour, 57+ 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…...

11+ hour, 35+ 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…...

15+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 20+ hour 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…...

15+ hour, 15+ 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…...

15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (528+ words) Oil is valuable only if you can sell it. Saudi Arabia has the second-largest proven oil reserves of any country. But that statistic matters only if you can pump it and ship it to customers. The Saudis can pump it....

16+ hour, 3+ 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…...

17+ hour, 22+ min ago   (357+ words) Or will we have another day living in infamy alongside the Jan. 6 insurrection? Any legal eagles here able and willing to chime in? I know that Marc Elias and numerous Attorneys-General will stand ready to take this to the Supreme…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (520+ words) 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. President Donald Trump held his long-awaited midterm convention in Dallas this week,…...

20+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1501+ words) September 11, 2001 always raises anger as much as horror in me. One of the elements of that project was that the president would need something like a Pearl Harbor to rally the country and exert unfettered power. But, to disguise and…...