North Korea is the worst government on Earth; Trump prefers it to the prosperous democracy next door

Good morning, A federal judge just did something powerful people spent eight years trying to stop: she ordered the release of the full case files from Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Ghislaine...

Many Nerves Were Touched

When ICE announced plans to spend up to $20 million on electric shock gloves, the debate initially centered on the technology itself.

Maggie Haberman And Jonathan Swan Have Been Sounding The Alarm

"I was able to go back and serve as a volunteer ranger because the land needs care whether the government will pay for it or not."

Trump’s regulator approved World Liberty’s bank three days before its USD1 stablecoin was revealed as a way to pay for access to the AI being pushed into federal programs.

An Iowa teacher acquitted of assaulting a teenager after tugging on his sleeve says “the growing culture of entitlement surrounding parenting and children” may have contributed to her arrest and…

“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.

It's time to come together — and for others to plan to get out of the way.

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.”

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Tell DHS: Free Pregnant Women from ICE Detention

The HPV vaccine prevents not only cervical cancer in women, but also multiple cancers in men.

US president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to Biden

It was a real Roy Cohn move.

A donor who gave money to a Gaza hospital. An anti-racist hate-group researcher. ICE protesters. Authoritarian DOJ arrests prominent leftists on bogus money-laundering, fraud, and terrorism charges.

House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.

Bonus cartoon for today (OK, I actually drew it last night).

How we're paying the price for tariffs, war, immigration, and a shredded safety net

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his appearance on Meet the Press proves it

There is a special kind of madness that descends upon an administration when it begins to treat its enemies with more courtesy than its allies.

Democracy Now! interviews Gil Duran about The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed.

But you're the one with power, so your error is dangerous

A Trump-linked oil company just sent heavy equipment to drill in Greenland. Join to help locals stop it!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani released videos in three languages to highlight a program that offers free theater tickets to high school students. His Mandarin earned some praise.

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

On Monday, August 10, Todd Blanche took the oath of office as attorney general, administered by federal appeals court judge Emil Bove, another of Trump’s defense lawyers before moving to the Departmen...

The parks can rot, the hungry can starve and cancer research can disappear, but Donald Trump’s taxpayer-funded dollhouse never misses a fucking payment.

This cartoon for the Dallas Morning News is based on one of their editorials about putting billboards in parks to help fund them.

EXCLUSIVE FOR ALL SUBSCRIBERS: The battle for control of the US House could be determined near........ the US Army War College

As a result of a majority of Americans waking up to the horrors of AI data centers and turning against billionaires, Zuckerberg and other billionaires are trying to put a human touch on technofascism.