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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. In December, the Trump administration quietly removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth as holidays where visitors would be given free admission to national parks. But this slight against the day honoring America’s most well-known and …

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By Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk for ProPublica Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns. An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck , choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed; she then a…

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. Welcome back to another week of the Trump administration’s war on America —led by one of its most loyal soldiers, Attorney General Pam Bondi. The Department of Justice has been a busy little bee as of late, what with all the suing and being sued. …

While Republicans continue to pretend that the ICE shooting of Renee Good and terrorizing of U.S. cities constitutes immigration policy, the Trump administration is now pushing the idea that a Dickensian plate of crumbs constitutes a health and affordability program. And it was all caught on video. Watch a Trump apologist struggle to defend ICE ineptitude YouTube Video Democratic Sen. Mark Warner…

It’s a perennial argument: Does President Donald Trump know he’s lying, or is he just stupid or demented (or both)? For example, does he know he lost the 2020 presidential election, or does he actually believe the falsehoods he spreads about it? Every once in a while, though, he slips up and tells the truth, revealing that he’s not entirely deluded. One of those moments came on Wednesday, when Tr…

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 . While the bulk of U.S. news coverage in the Caribbean tends to focus on Puerto Rico, the U.S Virgin Islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas are rarely part of the discussion. …

Donald Trump cannot tolerate events that don’t revolve around him. Even as president of the United States, he is incapable of letting history unfold without forcing himself into the center of it—loudly, crudely, and without understanding the consequences. Every crisis becomes a stage. Every tragedy becomes an opportunity for self-promotion. That impulse is now colliding with one of the most dange…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Democrats are the clear favorites to win the House Finally, some good news. A year in, Americans think Trump has made everything worse You’ve got to see how bad the numbers are for him. You can mail guns in Trump’s America—just not abortion pills USPS stands for “United States Pistol Serv…

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