- Texas senator’s big ‘gotcha’ moment in DOJ confirmation hearing made him a laughingstock
- Cartoon: Trump Inc.

- ‘That is not how this works’: Jen Psaki swats down factually incorrect question about abortion
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- Twitter responds after South Dakota governor tells asylum-seekers to stay the hell out
- A progressive landslide in Wisconsin shows how badly GOP attacks on school reopenings have failed
- Watch 10-year-old politely eviscerate Texas Republicans over anti-trans bills
- Gaetz frantically promotes Project Veritas video to discredit reporting on his sex trafficking ties
- Trump is gone but his enablers still remain in Congress. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
- Senate Republicans put their full hostility to Black women on display at Kristen Clarke confirmation
- Forensic pathologist named in lawsuit for his medical opinion is best Chauvin defense can do
- Sorry, Republicans. You’re basically just Matt Gaetz now
- Twitter users quickly ID drill sergeant harassing a Black man in viral video—and his CO saw it, too
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- A terrible disease, children at risk, and a promising treatment that’s about to vanish: Part I
- Study finds not just a peak in far-right domestic terrorism, but rising involvement of veterans
- As hundreds of corporate heavy hitters go to bat for voting rights, another GOP alliance falters
- Brutal watchdog report finds the Capitol Police knew ‘Congress itself is the target’ on Jan. 6
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- Former GOP governor launches North Carolina Senate bid as an ‘outsider.’ No, really
- Minnesota officer surrenders, will face second-degree manslaughter charge in Daunte Wright murder
- Democrats call on Biden to prioritize citizenship for essential workers in infrastructure plan
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- Grooms turned away from wedding venue in North Carolina for precisely the reason you might expect
- Michael Cohen’s Matt Gaetz Joke is a gas gas gas
- Republican megadonors had high hopes for a weekend retreat. Then Trump took the stage
Grooms turned away from wedding venue in North Carolina for precisely the reason you might expect- MyPillow CEO launches ‘free speech’ social media site by announcing list of censored words
- Trump’s Big Lie about election fraud is going down with a whimper in the face of multiple lawsuits
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- Cartoon: Signing off
- Vaccine passports are coming, because businesses like money and Americans like not dying
- ‘Daunte’s lynching isn’t a mistake’: Social media outcry follows disturbing police killing
- Defense expert claims George Floyd should have been ‘resting comfortably’ with knee on his neck
- Trump is gone but his enablers still remain in Congress. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
- Biden Justice Department has refused to disclose certain family separation documents
- Biden sets out to prove Republican lawmakers are on the wrong side of history. They’re helping him
- Manchin bases opposition to infrastructure plan on Republican lie about corporate tax cuts, jobs
- Why Muslims don’t eat or drink anything from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan
- Sign the petition: Urge U.S. governors and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken: Across the United States and in Palestine, we need equitable vaccine distributions.
- Officer who killed Daunte Wright couldn’t tell a Taser from a gun despite 26 years of experience
- Anti-baseball, anti-business—GOP lawmakers make clear there’s no safe space in the Republican Party
- In 2013, my neighbor planned to kill everyone in my building: My timeline with gun violence
- Over 700 refugee flights cancelled as Biden’s admissions cap continues to be delayed no explanation
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- Julián Castro: Republicans now concerned about migrant kids ‘were with Trump every step of the way’
- Yet another state Senate passes legislation that pretends to care about girls’ sports
- GOP primary for open Ohio Senate seat grows larger and could get even more crowded
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- Michael Cohen’s Matt Gaetz Joke is a gas gas gas
- Republican megadonors had high hopes for a weekend retreat. Then Trump took the stage
- Matt Gaetz makes time to broadcast his ignorance on systemic racism in transportation
Republican megadonors had high hopes for a weekend retreat. Then Trump took the stage- MyPillow guy Mike Lindell is now vowing to take on Amazon
- Fox News has a moment of honesty when Greg Abbott is reminded of his silence under previous admin
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- GOP wants Trump to cool it with McConnell; Trump turns up the heat
- Rep. Matt Gaetz is out of friends, drugs, and pimps. Might be time to cut your losses, pal
- The flabbergasting fly from Florissant
- Republican state legislators have introduced more than 360 bills in 47 states that would restrict voting rights. Donate $5 to these grassroots groups to fight back.
- A Georgia day care allegedly prioritized feeding white children lunch over Black children
- Biden Republicans are real and they live in Carmel, Indiana
- Horrifying video shows police officer who killed Daunte Wright thought she was using her Taser
- Sign the petition: Urge Congress to support Medicare for All and ensure that every person is guaranteed quality health care regardless of their ability to pay.
- Cartoon: ‘The Establishment’
- Washington Post applauds sacrificing communities of color to the Postal Service austerity gods
- Pitiful ‘White Lives Matter’ rallies reveal diminished, but still dangerous, state of radical right
- Sign the petition: Demand Congress to pass legislation which invests in clean housing, public transportation and protecting Black and Brown communities from environmental degradation.
- The GOP isn’t just alienating corporate America, big law firms are joining the fight
- I’m angry. A rant on being Black when being Black gets you dead.
- Biden administration, allies contemplate next actions as Russia masses troops on Ukraine border
- Biden budget seeks aid for unaccompanied kids, backlog of asylum applications, no new cash for wall
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- Michael Cohen’s Matt Gaetz Joke is a gas gas gas
- Matt Gaetz makes time to broadcast his ignorance on systemic racism in transportation
- Black Army Lt. pulled over, terrorized, and beaten even though police knew he’d done nothing wrong
- Michael Cohen’s Matt Gaetz joke is a gas gas gas
- Tucker Carlson claims anyone but a white male will ‘crash’ a plane as a pilot
- Minnesota police shoot and kill Daunte Wright, 20, after traffic stop involving air fresheners
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- Vaccine refusal is going to cost this country billions, and we’ll all end up paying for it
- NY Democrats just made history with one of the most progressive policy victories in generations
- Cartoon: Revenge of the stupidverse
- Republican state legislators have introduced more than 360 bills in 47 states that would restrict voting rights. Donate $5 to these grassroots groups to fight back.
- FBI thwarts admitted insurrectionist’s plan to bomb an Amazon web services data center In Virginia
- Pence signs multimillion-dollar deal for memoir recounting his time as Trump’s purse poodle
- Matt Gaetz speaks to group behind Jan. 6 rally and doubles down on the Big Lie
- Sign the petition: Demand Congress to pass legislation which invests in clean housing, public transportation and protecting Black and Brown communities from environmental degradation.
- Biden’s message to Republicans and Manchin: ‘Republican voters agree with what I’m doing’
- McConnell’s ‘stay out of politics’ warning to corporations doesn’t seem to be working
- Apple Studios takes on the Peach State, exits Georgia production citing voter suppression law
- Sign the petition: Urge U.S. governors and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken: Across the United States and in Palestine, we need equitable vaccine distributions.
- Time for a corporate tax plan that ‘ends U.S. participation in the race to the bottom’
- The business of America is protecting business
- With a difficult midterm looming, Democrats have a short window to ban gerrymandering
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- Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Juan Escalante and Gabe Ortiz on fixing America’s immigration system
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- After drunken high-speed chase, Republican leader tries to fight “donut boy” police
- Jen Psaki civilly lays waste to reporter as she schools him on Americans’ infrastructure wants
- Black Army Lt. pulled over, terrorized, and beaten even though police knew he’d done nothing wrong
- Jen Psaki civilly lays waste to reporter as she schools him on Americans’ infrastructure wants
- After Carlson spouts white nationalist ‘replacement theory,’ ADL chief says: ‘Tucker must go’
- Vaccine is piling up in red states, as Republican anti-science threatens national health
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- MyPillow guy says he’s hired investigators to find out why he can’t get on Fox News anymore
- InfoWars mob terrorizes mothers and small children arriving at a Catholic Charities facility
- Clarence and Virginia Thomas have an impressively corrupt activist/judge scheme going
- Trump is gone but his enablers still remain in Congress. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
- Manchin elevates Trump’s Big Lie in defending the filibuster. Clyburn would like a word
- Trump officials bragged about blocking scientists from accurately reporting on COVID-19
- Still more details emerge showing that Matt Gaetz was using his pal Greenberg to pimp young women
- Sign the petition: Urge your federal lawmakers to pass the Broadband Justice Act.
- Cartoon: Drivel, he wrote
- Don’t Worry, Congressman Gaetz, you’ll hit rock bottom at some point. Surely.
- John Boehner, unsparing about today’s GOP, advises voters against electing ‘legislative terrorists’
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- Rep. Veronica Escobar says Stephen Miller should be locked up for ‘heinous human rights violations’
- As some insurrectionists eye plea bargains, others are doubling down on claims of patriotism
- Amazon defeats Alabama union effort after dirty, but predictable, campaign
- Sign the petition: Urge U.S. governors and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken: Across the United States and in Palestine, we need equitable vaccine distributions.
- Republicans packed the Supreme Court. Biden is creating a commission to study the problem
- Iowa nears 60% of power from wind turbines.
- An end to austerity? Biden offers budget that reverses years of deficit peacockery
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ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

- Jen Psaki shows the world how to handle dopey Newsmax reporters
- Matt Gaetz’s staffers were sending videos of his outrageous behavior to other Republican officials
- After drunken high-speed chase, Republican leader tries to fight “donut boy” police

- Fox Business correspondent gets a schooling on ‘tone’ from Psaki during White House press conference
- The Matt Gaetz scandal could not get more ridiculous, but it sure keeps trying
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- Gross Gaetz reportedly showed members of Congress photos of women he’d slept with
- Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals that the cure for COVID-19 is … pumping iron!
- Georgia Republicans try to retaliate after Delta Airlines CEO speaks up for voter rights
- Rhodes’ speech at phony ‘border crisis’ rally shows how disinformation spreads on the right
- Want common sense gun safety laws? We need a bigger Senate majority to break the filibuster. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
- Georgia faces blowback over racist voter suppression law
- Cartoon: Rights of man
- Inspector general report shows Capitol Police knew ‘Congress itself is the target on the 6th’
- Community calls for ‘Aziz’s law’ after 3-year-old is killed by neighbor’s dogs in his own yard
- Sign and send a petition: Stop Big Pharma from price gouging the American people on taxpayer-funded medicines!
- 49 Senate Democrats sponsor the For the People Act, making it not a ‘splintered’ party
- ‘Can I pray with you?’ Floyd’s girlfriend reveals side of him jury hadn’t yet seen
- Biden’s first Cabinet meeting will likely be a wee bit different from the past four years
- Democratic pick in New Mexico special is surprise, but final outcome likely won’t be
- Sign the petition: Urge your federal lawmakers to pass the Broadband Justice Act.
- Biden admin has big decision to make regarding family separation documents. The answer is clear
- On infrastructure, Republicans ready to explain once again why America can’t have nice things
- Clinics for Black and brown mothers risk closure with New York’s new ‘money-saving’ budget plan
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