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Sony announced on Friday that it will raise prices on its premium PlayStation video game systems due to "continued pressures in the global economic landscape." A Sony PlayStation 5 video game console is for sale in Fairfield, Connecticut, on Dec. 5, 2023. In the United States, the PS5 disc and digital editions will each increase by $100, while the PS5 Pro will see an even steeper $150 jump. The l…

Mike Ferner was hospitalized for a fasting protest gone wrong in New York City just days before the first “No Kings” protest in June 2025. “I lasted three weeks,” he told Daily Kos, explaining that members of Veterans for Peace, who he spoke on behalf of, intended to fast for 40 days in a demonstration outside of the United Nations to bring attention to U.S. funds going to the Gaza conflict. But …

The Senate, in the wee hours of Friday morning, voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security without money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensuring that other critical functions of DHS like airport security and disaster relief can resume after a 41-day shutdown. Democrats—who refused to fund the agency unless Republicans agreed to reform ICE and Customs and Border Control agents' co…

Everything is very terrible right now in Trump’s America, but it’s important to remember that it is also very stupid. For proof of this, look no further than the Department of Justice and zoom in on the Civil Rights Division, headed by one Harmeet Dhillon. Surprisingly, Dhillon is not one of President Donald Trump’s innumerable former criminal defense attorneys. What Dhillon brings to the table i…

The agency typically doesn’t allow smog-creating ethanol blends in the summer but is relaxing that restriction to appease consumers and farmers. By Georgina Gustin for Inside Climate News The Trump administration handed farmers and the ethanol industry a win on Wednesday by issuing a waiver that will allow the use of higher corn-based ethanol blends in gas tanks this summer. Environmental Protect…

The Conservative Political Action Conference—the annual gathering of right-wing creeps—kicked off on Thursday, with a number of Republican politicians and activists slated to speak to the crowd of mouth-breathing losers. CPAC chair Matt Schlapp said he hopes this year's four-day gathering will bring the MAGA back together, as it's currently being torn apart by President Donald Trump’s war in Iran…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. 46 years ago, the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed A lot has gone wrong since then. Trump pardoned Michael Flynn—and now you’re paying him $1.2 million There is definitely some “historic injustice” going on with this. Florida GOP gets cold feet about rigging House map It stinks when y…

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During President Donald Trump’s reliably bizarre Cabinet meeting on Thursday, he tried to preempt criticism of his own use of mail-in voting for a special election in Florida , after years of railing against the practice as fraudulent. “You know why?” Trump said when asked. “Because I'm president of the United States and because of the fact that I'm president of the United States, I did a mail-in…

Is there nothing that President Donald Trump won’t wreck? While he’s clearly out to wreck the United States writ large, he is also carrying out ceaseless aesthetic attacks on the White House and just about everywhere else in Washington, D.C. Trump’s latest remodel idea displays his usual reverence for history. He’s kicking around the idea of getting rid of the White House Treaty Room and replacin…