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Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. Welcome to another week where the Trump administration’s wholesale abandonment of the rule of law has required everyone else to try their damndest to uphold it. We’ve got clergy suing the administration, judges finding it in civil contempt, and ac…

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By Andrew Jones for KFF ASHEVILLE, N.C. — At around 2 a.m., 7-year-old twin brothers arrived at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Both had a fever, a cough, a rash, pink eye, and cold symptoms. The boys sat in one waiting room and then another. Two hours and 20 minutes passed before the two were isolated, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services records obtained by KFF Health News. Then…

As bombshell reporting exposed more evidence of an Epstein coverup by the Department of Justice, President Donald Trump himself punished Americans with a two-hour State of the Union address. And after that, Trump’s minions spent the week embarrassing themselves in front of Congress—again. And it was all on video! Trump gives his most unhinged State of the Union speech yet YouTube Video Trump deli…

At first blush, you might think last week’s top narrative at Daily Kos was simply that Donald Trump is terrible. Yawn. We know. But that wasn’t really the story. The deeper thread running through the week was that the people in charge are desperate to project strength while behaving (thankfully!) like unserious people. Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of…

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 the Caribbean . Jomo Thomas, a lawyer, journalist, and social commentator from Saint Vincent, published a timeless piece for The Vincentian newspaper in 2021 titled “ Black history outlasts February .” It…

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The U.S. and Israel launched an attack Saturday on Iran , with the first apparent strike happening near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian media reported strikes nationwide, and smoke could be seen rising from the capital. President Donald Trump said in a video posted on social media that the U.S. had begun “major combat operations in Iran.” He claimed Iran has continue…

On Friday, it was former President Bill Clinton’s turn to be hauled in front of the House Committee to Protect Donald Tru— oh, sorry, it’s the House Oversight Committee . You can see why one would get confused. After all, how is it that someone who left the White House 25 years ago, a man with less recent and less damning appearances in the Jeffrey Epstein files than the sitting president, has be…

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A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who disappeared after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop was found dead on the street five days later, prompting a police investigation and complaints from city officials that he'd been abandoned without care for his safety. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was detained by Border Patrol agents on Feb. 19 after his release from a count…