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Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. The last few weeks have seen a push from the right to shut up athletes, musicians, and comedians—only for them to triumph on the global stage. This pattern of behavior, which goes back years, highlights just how out of touch the right is with …

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A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. By Mica Rosenberg for ProPublica This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents…

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. This week featured a whole lotta courts telling the administration a whole lotta nope. Nope to malicious deportations. Nope to vindictive detentions. Nope to busting into churches to arrest immigrants. Why, it’s almost as if pretty much everything…

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Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system. By Martha Pskowski for Inside Climate News REDFORD, Texas—Plans for a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas are raising alarms among residents and elected officials. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intends …

Democratic representatives continued to shine at home and abroad while the Trump administration’s fascistic tendencies continued to backfire spectacularly—further undermining their midterm chances. And it was all on video. ‘I am somebody’: Tributes pour in for civil rights icon Jesse Jackson YouTube Video The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday, at age 84. The famed civil rights activist inspired …

Every week brings a flood of news stories. President Donald Trump says something unhinged. Republicans break something new. Corporations bend the knee to this administration. Corporate media trips over itself trying to normalize the latest outrage. Kid Rock and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, do something ridiculous. That’s the surface. But when you step back and look at wha…

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 . Though I have explored Puerto Rico’s history as a colony, as well as Haitian, Jamaican and Bajan independence, I haven’t taken a look at France’s “colonies“ in the Caribbean, with the exce…

The Supreme Court improved everyone’s Friday morning—well, everyone except Donald Trump —by dropping the long-awaited decision on tariffs and kneecapping the president’s signature economic policy. The ruling is a sprawling mess, but not nearly as big a mess as the tariffs’ aftermath. Part of why the case is a mess is that not all six justices who ruled to throw out the tariffs agreed on the same …

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Democrats don’t want you to forget the cost of Trump’s dumb tariffs Trump’s tariffs may be gone—but they left behind major damage. ‘Deeply concerned’: Democrats launch probe of Musk’s sex abuse bot Extremely “2026” headline. Trump twerp demands federal prosecutors bend the knee to Dear Le…