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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent much of Thursday in a closed-door hearing about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. It all amounted to a laughable circus led by noted moron James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee. After Comer threatened Hillary and former President Bill Clinton with jail time if they didn’t testify, the couple agreed to ap…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump voters' regret hits new high The midterms sure are shaping up to be brutal for Republicans. Turns out ICE is just a bunch of scared widdle guys Kids on bikes? Snowballs? The horror! Kansas Republicans ramp up cruelty toward trans people The right has declared full war on transgender…

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Nearly a year later, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still battling for his freedom. The Salvadoran man, who is married with children to a U.S. citizen, was wrongly deported to a prison in his home country in March 2025 alongside more than 200 other Venezuelan and Salvadoran men. Thursday, Abrego Garcia appeared in court alongside his family and legal team to battle a criminal case brought against him af…

A Columbia University neuroscience student who is also a social media influencer that posts content about studying and science was abducted from the New York City campus Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security. Columbia’s acting President Claire Shipman sent a note to students informing them that federal agents abducted the student after they “made misrepresentations to gain entry to the …

Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould testified before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday, where ranking member Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts grilled him over the Trump family’s most transparent grift : the World Liberty Financial crypto bank. Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould Gould is set to approve the bank’s application, despi…

By now, everyone knows that the official social media accounts for the Trump administration are cesspools of racism, complete with Nazi imagery and “ banger memes ”—and it’s all on your dime. But turning official channels of communication into xenophobic AI slop doesn’t seem to be quite enough for this administration, which seems to have resorted to having a White House staffer—yes, an official g…

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a behind-the-scenes video Thursday of his Spanish-language promotion of the city’s free child care program, featuring Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@nycmayor) Partnering with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mamdani unveiled the expansion of the city’s free child care progra…

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and the Senate GOP's campaign arm are going scorched-earth against Cornyn's chief opponent in the final days of the Lone Star State's Senate primary, airing a joint ad calling state Attorney General Ken Paxton a "wife-cheater and fraud." "Crooked Ken Paxton cheated on his wife. She’s divorcing him on biblical grounds, so now Paxton’s wrecking another home, sle…

Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas appeared on Fox News Thursday, where he defended reports that key documents pertaining to accusations of sexual assault against President Donald Trump were missing from the Department of Justice’s recent Epstein files release. Asked by host Dana Perino to respond to the controversy, Fallon deflected. “Just look at the data, right? Under the Biden White House an…

Transgender residents of Kansas have been receiving notices that their drivers’ licenses are no longer valid, the result of a law passed by the Republican-led state legislature. Letters sent out Tuesday , by the Kansas Department of Revenue which oversees drivers’ licensing issues, informed residents that because of the new law, which requires state identification to “reflect the credential holde…