DeSantis has declined to speak with Harris or President Joe Biden even as his state relies on federal aid
Harris' sit-down with the podcast did what many mainstream interviews don't: It helped us learn about who she is
Nearly all of Donald Trump's correspondonces with his fans wildly swing between professions of love and hate
In «The Cancel Culture Panic,» Adrian Daub shows how a phony panic created the pretext for real book-banning
«Trump’s apocalyptic language,» social theorist Henry Giroux argues, «must be seen as a warning»
French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu has offered a timeline for the planned transfer of Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com
Donald Trump has contrasted the aid Washington has given to Ukraine with that given to its own citizens affected by Hurricane Helene Read Full Article at RT.com
Western sanctions have propelled the restructuring of Russia’s economy, making it more resilient, HSE University head Nikita Anisimov says Read Full Article at RT.com
Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri has called on Israel to stop its aggression against Gaza and agree to peace negotiations to end the conflict Read Full Article at RT.com
Beijing has announced tariffs on brandy imports from the EU after Brussels slapped extra duties on Chinese-made electric cars Read Full Article at RT.com
Donald Trump and his allies have been misinforming the public about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, be it with lies or conspiracy theories. Trump’s first administration was a disaster for our environment—but he and his friends are far from done. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s agenda for a potential second Trump administration, includes dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Agency—the U.S. agency that forecasts weather—and greatly limiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to respond. Here are some examples of how poorly the Trump administration managed our country’s toughest times.
Sally Field, the Academy Award-winning actress, told her harrowing story of procuring an illegal abortion in Mexico when she was 17, in an Instagram video posted on Sunday. “I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story,” the famed actress wrote on Instagram. “It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them.” «I feel still very shamed about it, because I was raised in the 50s, and, you know, it's ingrained in me,” she said. “And I was 17. I had no choices in my life.» In the video, Field details traveling with her mother and two others to a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, where she was not provided a real anesthetic. She also details being molested by a clinic technician and then being rushed out of the facility because abortion was against the law. Nevertheless, the abortion, as horrible as Field’s experience was, allowed her to start her career in acting. «I began auditioning, and by the end of that year, I was Gidget,” she said, referring to her role as the title character on the beloved TV show that launched her career. “I was the quintessential all-American girl next door,” Field says, adding, “In reality, I was the quintessential all-American girl next door because so many young women—my generation of women—were going through this, and these are the things that women are going through now.» x x YouTube Video Field joins other famous women, like Stevie Nicks, Chrissy Teigen, Halsey, and numerous others who watched the conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. Help Kamala Harris win the White House with your donation today!
It’s textbook hypocrisy: House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday that he won’t commit to reconvening his chamber to pass additional disaster-relief funding, yet he criticizes the federal government’s response as lacking. “We’ll be back in session immediately after the election,” Johnson said, after refusing to commit to bringing House members back to vote. “That’s 30 days from now. The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that,” Johnson said, adding that it takes time to figure out “specific needs and requests based upon the actual damages.” Johnson also recently railed against Biden’s response thus far, noting that lawmakers released $20 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds last month. “[Biden and Harris] are scrambling to cover their egregious errors and mistakes,” the Louisiana Republican told Fox News Digital on Friday. “And there’s an effort to blame others or blame circumstances when this is just purely a lack of leadership and response.” However, the Department of Homeland Security says FEMA will run out of funding before the end of the hurricane season. Johnson’s hypocrisy comes amid the right spreading conspiracy theories about FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene—conspiracies that even Republican governors, state officials, state government websites, and FEMA itself have had to debunk. These false claims have not only confused the public but also put unnecessary pressure on local leaders and military personnel working tirelessly to support their communities in the wake of this disaster.
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Harris is doing tons of media this week, but critics still complain The goalpost-moving continues. There’s a reason Trump and his minions keep on mispronouncing ‘Kamala’ “Can you say Comma-la?” 👀 State of the Race: 1 month to go It’s crunch time! Here's who to thank for the Harris campaign's historic field operation Trump’s get-out-the-vote campaign has got nothing on Harris’. Obama hits the trail for Harris as Trump teams up with notorious troll A gross Musk followed Trump to Pennsylvania.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin today with María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo of El País in English describing the first day of the unprecedented criminal trial of a former president of the United States. Of the four criminal proceedings he is facing, this is the case Trump dislikes the most, as it mixes personal dirty laundry; the recording of the $130,000 payment as “legal expenses” to hide its dubious nature and, even worse, an alleged violation of campaign finance rules, as the alleged bribe to buy Daniels’ silence had the sole objective of preventing the affair from coming to light in the final stretch of the campaign that ultimately brought him to the White House in 2016. Presided over by Judge Juan Merchan, the trial has begun with jury selection. The questionnaire for the potential candidates—a hundred on Monday, out of a total of 500—has been made public, and it is expected that in the process those who do not respond adequately will be automatically excluded, according to the scale of prosecutors and defense. The fact that all the candidates are residents of Manhattan, an eminently Democratic district, may be a factor that leads to numerous disqualifications by Trump’s lawyers. [...] Before jury selection began, Judge Merchan spent over an hour on preliminary, or procedural, matters in discussions with the prosecution team and defense counsel. One of the main issues concerned permission to show the transcript of the Access Hollywood tape — an embarrassing audio recorded in 2005 in which Trump denigrated women — at trial. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who brought the case, had wanted the tape itself to be one of the main exhibits, but on Monday Judge Merchan ruled that only the transcript, not the recording, could be used. He has also refused to incorporate subsequent revealing — and damning — evidence of Trump’s customary treatment of women. In theory, Merchan’s decision is a victory for the defense.
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The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast x Embedded Content Leading Off ● WA-04: Donald Trump on Friday endorsed former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler's intra-party bid against Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse, who is one of the two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 riot. Trump's backing makes Sessler, who waged an unheralded campaign two years ago, Newhouse's only notable foe in what had been a quiet Aug. 6 top-two primary for Washington's conservative 4th District. However, it remains to be seen whether Democrats will once again consolidate behind a single candidate as they did in 2022, a development that could make it tougher for one of the two Republicans to reach the November general election.
Talking about tax policy is one of the best ways for President Joe Biden to create a contrast with Donald Trump on who will fight for average Americans. As Trump told a group of wealthy campaign donors earlier this month, one of his signature issues if elected president in November will be extending the tax cuts Republicans enacted during his term in 2017—which overwhelmingly benefited wealthy Americans. There's no audio of the statement, but it echoes comments Trump made last year during a private fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, an extremist Republican who is running for governor. Addressing the audience, Trump called some attendees “rich as hell” before promising, “We’re gonna give you tax cuts!” The Biden campaign spliced that proclamation into an ad where the president is joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “When he thinks the cameras aren't on,” Biden says, “he tells his rich friends, ‘We're going to give you tax cuts.’”
Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan for the second day of his criminal trial over falsifying business records connected to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. On Monday, Merchan ruled on several motions from each side and set a hearing date of April 23 for the issue of whether Trump is in violation of his gag order. Merchan kept up a brisk pace in the afternoon, bringing in the first 96 potential jurors before dismissing more than half of them with a single question over their ability to be fair and impartial in this case. The afternoon ended with the first 18 of the remaining potential jurors answering preliminary questions. Merchan is expected to try to keep Tuesday centered on juror selection. With a reported 500 potential jurors to process, there should be no problem finding enough to fill the jury box, but just getting through them all is going to be an effort.
Tehran’s retaliatory attack may not have caused much destruction, but it was far from a failure Read Full Article at RT.com
Vladimir Putin and Ebrahim Raisi discussed the Iranian attack on Israel and the possibility of further escalation in the Middle East Read Full Article at RT.com
The Starz series dramatizes the real-life relationship between the ambitious George Villiers and King James I
Former Trump aide Miles Taylor: «The risk of political violence is high» — no matter who wins this election
The former president struggled to stay awake on the first day of what will likely be a long trial
