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After a Winter Olympic Games of athletes celebrating each other as much as they did winning, the response from the Trump administration is equal parts disheartening and gross. These are people who are functionally incapable of seeing the Olympics as anything but an opportunity to display their xenophobic loathing of other countries and to celebrate victory as a sort of violent domination. In shor…

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Americans are pissed at the state of Trump's union He’s just as popular as he was after Jan. 6. Despite crises in US, FBI director chugs a beer in Italy U.S.A.! U.S. … ugh. All the ways Trump will illegally impose more tariffs He’s nothing if not a petulant jerk. Cartoon: Stocks & Bondis …

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Leading Republican voices like Donald Trump Jr. are promoting a new “investigation” by conservative activist Nick Shirley which purports to prove voter fraud in California, but the core premise of the video was quickly debunked. The false allegation adds to the ever-growing pattern of behavior by Shirley and other right-wing serial misinformers like James O’Keefe, who promise bombshells that fizz…

The U.S. women's Olympic hockey team declined President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday, with a spokesperson for the team telling NBC News that they couldn’t attend "due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments." An athlete skis past Olympic rings during a cross country training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics o…

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is clearly doing her job for an audience of one these days, and you get one guess who that is. Cannon did her real boss, President Donald Trump, a super solid on Monday, blocking the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Mar-a-Lago case. In doing so, she appears to have bought the Trump team’s legal argument that it was somehow unlawful for…

Democratic turnout in Texas' primaries is surging , with over 100,000 more people taking a Democratic ballot than a Republican one, according to data compiled by VoteHub on Sunday. With more than a week to go before the March 3 primary, Democratic turnout is more than 87% of the final primary turnout from 2022, while Republican turnout is at just 43% of the final turnout the same year, according …

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Monday recognizing “National Angel Family Day.” The cynically anti-immigrant commemoration, which invokes the suffering of families who have lost loved ones to violent crime, quickly became another opportunity for Trump to air his personal grievances. “I'm just thinking as we're going through it because we've suffered through it together,” he said. “I …

Rapper Nicki Minaj has really leaned into her heel turn— popping up at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest for a little chat with Erika Kirk, declaring herself Trump’s “No. 1. fan” while stumping for social security privatization, and telling everyone that a signed “God Bless the USA” Bible from President Donald Trump was one of her “most meaningful gifts.” Come on. Even at her most deluded and self-…

FBI Director Kash Patel traveled to the Olympics in Italy at taxpayer expense and celebrated with the gold-medal-winning hockey team as Americans dealt with international crime, violent threats, and the possibility of war. Patel was recorded on Sunday chugging beers with the hockey team as part of the celebration of their gold medal win against Canada. During a celebratory phone call with Preside…

Neal Katyal, the attorney who successfully challenged the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies before the Supreme Court, spoke with CNBC Monday morning about the victory. While he took the metaphorical high road in describing the case, he couldn’t resist a subtle poke at the famously thin-skinned president. “The Supreme Court is the crown jewels in our democracy,” Katyal said. “It…