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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 . It never fails to amaze me that the United States has failed to elect a female president. The current global list of female heads of government should embarrass every U.S. resident, especi…

Skeezy GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas announced late Thursday night that he is acquiescing to GOP leaders’ demands and dropping his reelection bid amid a disturbing affair scandal , bringing the total number of Republicans not returning to the House to 34. According to data from the Wall Street Journal, that is the same number of Republicans who chose to either retire or run for other offices in…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Yes, Trump’s economy really is as bad as it seems What happened to all the winning? Leaked GOP group chat pushes extreme racism The future leaders of the Republican Party just can’t quit being bigots. Trump’s buddy Putin is helping Iran kill Americans So much for that bromance. Cartoon: A…

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Former President Barack Obama delivered powerful remarks Friday during a public memorial to celebrate the late Rev. Jesse Jackson . “We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope,” Obama said. “But this man, Rev. Jesse Lewis Jackson inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope, to step forward and say, ‘Send me wherever w…

When President Donald Trump imposed tariffs hither, thither, and yon, he was a colossus striding across the world—America First, the toughest country you know. But now that it’s time to give those back, per the Supreme Court , the administration is suddenly just a smol bean, and they can’t do it. That’s what it just told the Court of International Trade, where Judge Richard Eaton ruled that the a…

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem from her position as secretary of Homeland Security. A day later her rumored paramour and longtime Trump aide Corey Lewandowski was also purged . Notably Noem was not removed for repeatedly misleading Congress, using taxpayer funds for luxury planes, cosplay, and photoshoots , or for her department’s embrace of policies that have killed civ…

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett hit the airwaves Friday to spin yet another month of terrible jobs numbers . Both had the same talking points, blaming the weather and striking workers while gaslighting Americans into thinking that the numbers are actually great. “There's some weather, there are strikes on the West Coast,” Hassett told CNBC.…

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has a new idea , and it’s one that might sound fine at first but is really just straight-up racism and America First blather. Carr is pushing to force telecom firms to require all their call centers to employ only people proficient in English. American Standard only please, not that fussy British English, apparently. He’s also spitballing wheth…

GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina appeared on Newsmax on Friday with a brand new spin on President Donald Trump’s Iran war , comparing it to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yes, really. “I'm just so grateful we have a president who understands and, gosh, the ripple effect of this, it's just going to be incredible,” he said. “It's been compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall.” YouTube Video