August 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM EDT
Boston tells Trump to pound sand over his mass deportation plot

Boston leaders have resoundingly rejected a demand from the Department of Justice ordering the city to fall in line with Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, part of the administration's ongoing attack on cities with large minority populations and Democratic leadership. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to 32 cities last week demanding compliance with federal policies on immigration and commanding them to cease operating as sanctuaries for migrant communities.

August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM EDT
Cartoon: When pigs fly

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump's bid for a Nobel Peace Prize gets even more pathetic

August 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT
'Go home': Voters boo wannabe GOP governor off stage

Rep. Elise Stefanik received a Bronx Cheer when she showed up to an event in her district on Monday, with a group of protesters loudly booing the New York Republican. They voiced their discontent with her embrace of President Donald Trump and her vote to pass the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" that rips Medicaid and food stamps from millions in order to cut taxes for the richest few. Aside from booing, protesters shouted that Stefanik "sold us out!," told her to "go home," and also yelled that Stefanik should "Unseal the Epstein files," according to a report from HuffPost.

August 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT
Cartoon: The last big crime wave in DC

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Freedom fighter wields sub sandwich against Trump's DC gestapo

August 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT
Inside Hegseth's crusade to inject religious extremism into the military

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's push for a more evangelical presence in the military is alarming to many, except the God-fearing man himself.  According to a recent report by The Guardian, military members are breaking ranks to express concern about burgeoning neo-nazi and far-right sentiment as the Secretary of Defense pushes out extreme Christian nationalist content. 

August 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT
Florida defends the right to poison kids with raw milk

Oh, Florida, what will we ever do with you?  In Seminole County, a woman is suing a raw-milk producer Keely Farms Dairy and the retailer where she allegedly bought it, claiming that the unpasteurized milk caused a bacterial infection that killed her 20-week-old fetus. She said she'd been buying the milk for months without incident. When she noticed the label said something to the effect of "for consumption by animals," the seller allegedly told her it was just a "technical requirement to sell 'farm milk.'"

August 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
Why states should scrutinize the Justice Department's requests for voter rolls

The government is obligated by law to explain how it plans to use the information it collects. But the Trump administration hasn't provided many details yet. By Jessica Huseman for Votebeat

August 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT
Such a pro-family administration

As much as the Trump administration claims to care for families and wants to encourage having children, you wouldn't know it from its actions. In its latest move to make life harder for federal employees, the termination of union contracts for roughly 400,000 employees at the Department of Veterans' Affairs leaves expectant parents in the lurch.  Lower courts blocked President Donald Trump's March executive order purporting to be able to arbitrarily cancel union contracts covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. But federal appeals courts lifted those injunctions earlier this month, so Trump gets to do this while the litigation proceeds. The VA was the first agency to terminate nearly all its union contracts, but since Trump's executive order had a carveout for unions that support him, VA police, firefighters, and security guards did not have their contracts terminated. 

August 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
The Recap: LOL at these MAGA minions in Russia, and Texas gerrymander fight rages on

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Meet the MAGA Americans who moved to Russia""to hilarious results

August 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
The Recap: LOL at these MAGA minions in Russia, and Texas gerrymander fight rages on

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Meet the MAGA Americans who moved to Russia""to hilarious results

August 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM EDT
Cartoon: Crime is out of control

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | The FBI's new mission? Handling minor traffic incidents in DC

August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT
Blue states battle Trump over threat to pull funds for crime victims

A coalition of Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Monday, accusing it of hijacking federal crime victim funding in a bid to pressure states into assisting with immigration enforcement. The lawsuit, filed by 20 states and Washington, D.C., claims the Justice Department has illegally tied access to Victims of Crime Act funds to cooperation with President Donald Trump's deportation crackdown""a move the states describe as "unprecedented." All involved states have Democratic attorneys general.