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Why is it that the party that think people of color can’t possibly be better qualified than white people hire white people who are such incompetents?

Presumably because the Justice Department is now run by people who don’t actually have any idea what attorneys do, it dropped a giant data demand on all 93 offices Monday—with a deadline of ...

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...

Vladimir Putin, aided and abetted by his venal and uncurious minion, Krasnov are at it again .. shoving ransom notes disguised as “Peace Proposals” at Ukraine under the threat of American abandonment(as if there has been any substantive American aid...

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� How the Epstein files sparked a power struggle in the ...

Happy Day After Thanksgiving Day, aka TGIF (Turkey’s Gone, I’m Full). We hope that your post-feast digestive systems and indoor plumbing are functioning properly on this blessed Brown Friday. As we announced earlier this week to great rejoicing...

I fell onto the couch with a sigh, one hand on my still very full belly. Freddie looked up from his spot next to me, curled up on the furry blanket in the little nest I had made for him before we ...

Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! All my GNRs finish with four words: Truth Matters. Love Matters. However, sometimes I have wondered if that is really true. I mean, I know these ...

The recovery of salmon on the Klamath River above the former PacifiCorp dam sites has exceeded all expectations. Preliminary data from California Trout’s SONAR fish counting station below the former Iron Gate Dam site reveals nearly 10,000 salmon and...

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump ruins turkey pardon tradition with unhinged murder ...

Just You Wait Since none of us have any reason to be thankful for our current dripping-in-corruption president and his unshakable love of fascists and sexual predators, please enjoy this C&J gift to you: a few minutes with a president we are thankful...

Welcome back to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the fine folk at the GNR Discord )� bring you all the good news to ...

The arrest Like a family tragedy ripped from a dystopian soap opera, ICE has detained White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew's immigrant mother. If the reader is confused, let me connect the dots. Karoline's brother, Michael Leavitt, 35,...

Like most people, the word “woke” is oxymoronic, depending as it does on some relative lack of consciousness. Now that a “kill order” was given by Hegseth and a GOP senator is now moving in that investigatory direction, the long big sleep may be over....

Happy Tuesday morning, Gnusies! Today’s GNR is packed with stories proving that individuals have the power to resist lawless authoritarianism, to challenge and change public policies, and to make ...

Since stepping back into office, President Donald Trump has somehow been even more ludicrous than the first time around. And if there’s one thing he’s proven to the world, it’s that there’s ...

You know what everyone loves heading into winter and the holiday season? The looming—and increasing—threat of having their power shut off.� And how is President Donald Trump going to deal with ...

In a world afire in climate crisis and simultaneously hungry for food and energy, agrivoltaics—the pairing of solar panels with farming and ranching — has been hailed as a miracle solution. But this encouraging technological fix is also a political...

� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

A cartoon by Clay Bennett.

A diplomatic snafu came from Kushner and Witkoff having a secret meeting with Kremlin minions that regurgitated the same Russian ‘maximalist demands’, with Trump ‘acting tough’ demanding that Ukraine agree by Thursday as though turkey pardoning...

The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back. By� Elena Bruess �for Capital & ...

By Kate Ruder for KFF E-bike of Colorado sales manager Perry Fletcher said his sales and repair shop saw an increase in back-to-school sales to young riders and families this fall as the popularity of the battery-powered bicycles revs up. But the kids’...

Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own. By Grace Panetta ,�

President Donald Trump’s plan to build a missile defense system is not going so well. Indeed, it seems stalled out at the “ concepts of a plan ” stage.� The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” ...

Texas officials preparing for elections under new congressional maps must quickly reverse course because of a federal court order blocking the use of the maps. By � Natalia Contreras �for� Votebeat ...

Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 25 and 26. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and 90 Shahed-type,...

We began posting Good News Roundups (GNRs) in 2017. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating corporate media. Choosing not to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage...

President Donald Trump is reportedly obsessing over making his planned White House ballroom far larger than the project’s architect recommends, even as Americans struggle to ...

Just days after boasting that the GOP is “morally sound,” Rep. Maria Salazar of Florida was surprisingly candid about President Donald Trump’s possible intentions for Venezuela after months ...

No need to fear, America: Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson is here to solve�America’s�housing crisis.� Yes, this is the same Johnson who posted an AI video last month of him dressed as ...

Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� It’s gonna be a busy week, with Fangsgibbing on the way. So let us de-stress and kick back for a bit.� No worries, just lubs and laughs! If I fits, I sits…..AFTER fud,

Donald Trump's return to office has been an abject disaster. The economy is tanking due to the president’s idiotic ...

The Make America Healthy Again movement has quite a few hurdles to jump through with this one.� The Environmental Protection Agency is moving toward approving two new pesticides that ...

When I was helping to set up Shasta Abbey, in the time of Nixon, some lay people objected to our mealtime prayer giving thanks and offering the merit of our training to the Buddha, President Nixon, ...

In April 2022, US authorities extradited Juan Orlando Hernández from Honduras to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. In 2024, he was convicted by a New York jury...

A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related |� Watch RFK Jr. lose it when senator calls him out for 'making things up’

Legal scholars say the suspect’s claim is the result of ‘sloppy’ language in the president’s proclamation. By Carter Walker �for Votebeat A man charged with voting twice in the 2020 ...

Leave it to Donald Trump to grossly exploit a true human tragedy in order to exalt himself and divert attention from his multitude of failures. The latest example stems from the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. by an Afghan...

The advice offered by Donald Trump and his Cabinet cronies has always been something less than credible, and more likely dangerous. It began years ago when Trump told people diagnosed with COVID to inject bleach, and it continues through his recent...

Jake Tapper confronts Sen. Bill Cassidy for empowering RFK Jr. despite science-based warnings about his harm to public health. A powerful moment of real accountability. Jake Tapper Shreds GOP Senator Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video...

I do not live in Boston. The nuance of the city’s politics is likely lost on me. The closest i came to Boston politics was working with an engineer who was Mayor Menino’s (RIP) brother in law who had some interesting insights. Like when his sister...

House Democrats are bracing for a surge of progressive primary challenges that could scramble the party’s internal hierarchy—and the spark behind it all is a likely one: New York City Mayor-...

The Secret Service has declared the skies over Mar-a-Lago a permanent no-fly zone. What was once a temporary ban on fly-overs while Trump was in residence is now a complete redirection of Palm Beach Airport air traffic over Trump’s northern neighbors....

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. In the beginning, there were turkeys. Benjamin Franklin, of Founding...

The prosecutor who recently took over the � Georgia election interference case � against President � Donald Trump � and others said in a court filing Wednesday that he has ...

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

By � Susan Jaffe �for KFF Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make ...

A recent Daily Kos article concisely pointed out why it’s much riskier to aggravate the right than it is to aggravate the left. Both sides are not the same!

“Loyalty to the Constitution"” —�these are words either foreign to the trump regime or they want to intimidate the nation into submission that loyalty to trump trumps Loyalty to the ...