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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, May 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. House GOP advances Trump's 'budget betrayal' bill in dead of night May 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM EDT A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Trump's exception to refugee ban seems about white May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that he is lifting the Safe Drinking Water Act emergency order for Flint, Michigan, the city whose 100,000 residents had to grapple with lead-contaminated water. It's another big win in EPA administrator Lee Zeldin's efforts to "drive a dagger" through the heart of "climate change religion." May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that he is lifting the Safe Drinking Water Act emergency order for Flint, Michigan, the city whose 100,000 residents had to grapple with lead-contaminated water. It's another big win in EPA administrator Lee Zeldin's efforts to "drive a dagger" through the heart of "climate change religion." May 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT The Trump administration has agreed to pay $5 million to the estate of U.S. Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, according to a report from The Washington Post, giving a windfall to the family of a woman who tried to violently break onto the House floor and stop former President Joe Biden's electoral victory from being certified in 2021. Babbitt was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, after she had illegally entered the Capitol to stop the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to Biden. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking $30 million from the federal government. May 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT The Trump administration has agreed to pay $5 million to the estate of U.S. Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, according to a report from The Washington Post, giving a windfall to the family of a woman who tried to violently break onto the House floor and stop former President Joe Biden's electoral victory from being certified in 2021. Babbitt was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, after she had illegally entered the Capitol to stop the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to Biden. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking $30 million from the federal government. May 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT The Trump administration has agreed to pay $5 million to the estate of U.S. Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, according to a report from The Washington Post, giving a windfall to the family of a woman who tried to violently break onto the House floor and stop former President Joe Biden's electoral victory from being certified in 2021. Babbitt was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, after she had illegally entered the Capitol to stop the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to Biden. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking $30 million from the federal government. May 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT Add Vice President JD Vance to the long list of MAGA weirdos wasting time spinning conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden hiding a cancer diagnosis while in office. On Monday, Vance was asked by a reporter aboard Air Force Two to comment on the news of Biden's diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer. But instead of offering basic human decency""or even facts""he leaned straight into speculation, hinting at a cover-up. May 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT George Simion pledged to "Make Romania Great Again" and said he was running "on the MAGA ticket" to become president of the Eastern European country. The New York Times even declared that Simion was the favorite in the race, after he had come in first in an earlier round of voting to winnow the field down to two candidates. Yet on Sunday, Simion lost decisively to Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, becoming the latest foreign leader to lose an election after embracing Donald Trump. May 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT The second Trump administration is a chaotic mess, with many different flavors of incipient fascists jockeying for position. The madness is fueled by the fevered imaginings of the worst people you know. But Donald Trump and his ilk still have one overarching goal: to strip the government of meaningful oversight while weaponizing the meager oversight that remains. That's what appears to be happening over at the Department of Justice. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration may stop requiring appointed federal prosecutors to get approval from career attorneys in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section before investigating or indicting a public official. May 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM EDT A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | House GOP advances Trump's 'budget betrayal' bill in dead of night May 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT Newly released video of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining student activist Mahmoud Khalil undermines the agency's justifications for arresting him without a warrant. President Donald Trump had previously touted the arrest as evidence his administration is fighting terrorism. Left-leaning news outlet Zeteo on Monday published the Columbia University security video taken on March 8, which was acquired by Khalil's legal team, and it shows the pro-Palestinian activist peacefully interacting with ICE agents as they arrested him. |
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