Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded upon his vision for a Christofascist America to a crowd of evangelical broadcasters Monday, promising that the Supreme Court will be captured forever on his watch. He’ll have the opportunity, he told the crowd, to appoint as many as four justices—one more than Donald Trump! Because out-Trumping Trump is his main hope in securing the 2024 Republican nomination. While DeSantis explained that he holds Clarence Thomas up as his model justice, he’ll have to go, as...
On May 10, CNN CEO Chris Licht turned over his network to Donald Trump. He filled an auditorium in New Hampshire with hand-selected Trump supporters. He instructed them to cheer for their man, and not to express any disapproval. He purposely stranded host Kaitlan Collins in a position where she had no means of preventing Trump from bullying her, speaking over her questions, or simply bypassing her to stir his crowd into a frenzy. Trump loved it so much that he stuck around well after the cameras...
Living in New York City, working full time and without a car, Jessica Ray and her husband have come to rely on deliveries of food and just about everything else for their home. It has meant more free time on weekends with their young son, rather than standing in line for toilet paper or dragging heavy bags of dog food back to their apartment. “I don’t even know where to buy dog food,” said Jessica Ray of the specialty food she buys for the family’s aging dog. There are millions of families...
A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year's race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake failed to prove her claim that Maricopa County did not verify signatures on mail ballots as required by law. Lake was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies,...
The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal case is holding a hybrid hearing Tuesday to make doubly sure the former president is aware of new rules barring him from using evidence to attack witnesses. Trump won't have to show up to court for the afternoon hearing at a Manhattan courthouse, avoiding the mammoth security and logistical challenges that accompanied his arraignment last month. Instead, the Republican will be connected by video conference, with his face beamed onto courtroom TV monitors....
Police have arrested a man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House. The box truck's driver smashed into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square on Monday at around 10 p.m., Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. No one was injured. Officers from the Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department searched the truck after the crash. Video posted by WUSA-TV shows a police officer at...
When Yekaterina Maksimova can't afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it's probably the most efficient route. That's because she's been detained five times in the past year, thanks to the system's pervasive security cameras with facial recognition. She says police would tell her the cameras “reacted” to her — although they often seemed not to understand why, and would let her go after a few hours. “It seems like I’m in some kind of a...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from Daniel Donner, David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert and David Beard. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast Embedded Content Leading Off ● DE-Sen: Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, a moderate Democrat who has held statewide office since 1976, announced Monday that he would not seek a fifth term next year. The senator also made his preferred successor...
We begin today with Irina Ivanova of CBS News explaining which state would feel the effects of a default on the national debt most severely. Washington, D.C., where 1 in 4 jobs are tied to the federal government, would be hardest hit, becoming the "poster child" for a financial disaster, they said. States with large federal facilities, such as national laboratories or military bases, would be next in line. That includes Hawaii, which is home to the United States Pacific Command and to 11...
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Let’s Check the Tote Board It’s been a few of weeks since we checked in on the Daily Kos relief fund for the Ukrainian civilians affected by dicktator (see what I did there?) Vladimir Poopin’s (see what I did there, too?) stupid land grab. As of this morning, very impressive: we’re rapidly nearing the three-and-a-half-million mark $3,340,483.75 If you'd like to add to the total for the four chosen groups—the World Central Kitchen, AmeriCares, Razom for Ukraine, and the International Fund...
Barry Goldwater, the father of the modern conservative movement, never met a racist or bigot he didn’t love. Those people were the foundation of his infamous brainchild—the Southern Strategy—which leveraged racist sympathies to wedge Southern whites away from the Democratic Party. But even he foresaw the dangers of the Christian right. “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem,”...