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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is touting her department’s plan to triple the so-called “bonus” for immigrants who choose to self-deport, goosing it from $1,000 to $3,000 for anyone who signs up by the end of the year. Gosh, a whole eight days. Actually, DHS officials are calling it a “holiday stipend,” which is even more gross than calling it a bonus. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi …

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump finds an expensive new toy to slap his dumb brand on The president wants to build big boy battleships—at $5 billion a pop. Shocking new Epstein files link Trump to flights on pedophile's 'Lolita Express' Not a good sign when the Department of Justice jumps to the sitting president’s…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown, a significant defeat for the president's efforts to send troops to U.S. cities. The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deploymen…

I got a lotta problems with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and now you're going to hear about it! It's Festivus , the semi-fictional holiday from "Seinfeld" in which, among other things, revelers enjoy a holiday meal before airing their grievances from the previous year. And boy, do I have grievances. To Trump: You should be being sentenced for the crimes you committed in your f…

Just days after forcing his name on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has found another institution worthy of the Trump brand: the U.S. Navy. On Monday, the president announced plans for a new class of military vessels bearing his name, unveiling what he called “Trump Class” battleships as part of a broader vision for a revamped American fleet. The first ship, accordi…

CBS News’ decision to pull a ’60 Minutes’ report detailing torture and other offenses at the Trump-approved CECOT prison in El Salvador is continuing to cause major headaches for the network. On Monday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned the decision , noting that CBS’ parent company Paramount “needs Trump’s backing to buy Warner Bros.—including CNN,” and that the editorial move happe…

During the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump and the QAnon acolytes that surround him could not stop talking about how the Democrats and former President Joe Biden were hiding investigatory materials related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his network of high-powered human-trafficking perverts. Yet once Trump returned to office, lo and behold, it was his own adm…

No wonder Donald Trump fought with every fiber of his being to keep the Epstein files sealed . The Department of Justice on Monday released another tranche of files , as required by law, which included numerous mentions of Trump himself. The document drop included a jaw-dropping email from 2020 in which a federal prosecutor said that Trump flew multiple times on accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein'…

WWE star Mick Foley might have cut ties with the entertainment company over Donald Trump’s heinous reaction to beloved film director Rob Reiner’s death, but the president still has other spandex-wearing buddies to lean on. Former WWE wrestler Mick Foley Days after the wrestling icon announced his exit from WWE, its chief content officer Triple H appeared on the White House’s social media account …