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Yesterday was probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest Thanksgiving for our nation in our lifetimes. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that eerily echoes this moment and may give us some hope? Donald Trump has told...

A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...

What if every state did the Transparent Election Initiative to negate the pernicious effects of Citizens United and its political action committee grifting down by the dental floss bush. Every state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has...

Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...

Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ramped up his tirade against Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday, disparaging Kelly's military title and said the Democrat’s video urging troops not to follow illegal orders amounted to "sedition." "So 'Captain' Kelly, not...

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. DOGE is put out of its misery Good riddance. Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure is a canary in a coal mine for MAGA The GOP’s majority is so...

I thought I was way past being shocked by anything Trump does, but this story that broke yesterday will go down in history — and not in a good way. First, we have a bipartisan group of senators saying that they were told by Marco Rubio that the plan...

Yet another staggeringly humiliating defeat for this remarkably incompetent, corrupt, and yes, almost certainly criminal Department of Justice. Their historic ineptitude, towering arrogance, and ravidly extreme and blind partisanship are some of the...

MTG seems to just be the first of many.… More resignations are coming.. Though Johnson keeps the gavel even if Republicans become a minority, unless 9 Republicans band together and vote for a new speaker. This is a quote from a Senior Republican House...