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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, October 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT What if you threw a party to wreck the environment and nobody came? As part of its comprehensive assault on renewables, the Trump administration tried to get some company somewhere, anywhere, to agree to buy 167 million tons of coal, to be extracted from public land in Montana. It did not really work out well, with the only bid being one for $186,000, or a fraction of a penny per ton. October 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT Oh, the all too familiar woes of a leaked Republican group chat. A new scandal dropped Tuesday, revealing egregious text messages from Young Republican leaders. As originally reported by Politico, people in the group casually used the N-word, advocated for sending people "to the gas chamber," and openly aired other extremely homophobic, racist, sexist, and antisemitic remarks. October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla's misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous things between July 1 and Sept. 30, a drop of 63% over the same time period in 2024. October 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT By Sarah Jane Tribble for KFF Megan Waiters can recite the stories of dozens of people she has helped connect to the internet in western Alabama. A 7-year-old who couldn't do classwork online without a tablet, and the 91-year-old she taught to check health care portals on a smartphone. October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter with background on each cartoon, please consider joining the Sorensen Subscription Service! Also on Patreon. Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT President Donald Trump won in 2024 largely by arguing that he""unlike the Democrats""was focused on people's economic insecurities. While Democrats debated Gaza, transgender rights, abortion, and democracy itself, Trump's message centered largely on economic security. Trump had no actual policy platform to lower prices "on Day 1," but that didn't matter to a lot of voters. They simply wanted to be seen. While Democrats (me included) pointed to improving jobs and economic numbers, many Americans weren't feeling good about their own finances""and at least someone acknowledged their pain. October 14, 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. 'Fat troops' deemed unworthy to patrol world's 'most dangerous city' October 14, 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. 'Fat troops' deemed unworthy to patrol world's 'most dangerous city' October 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM EDT October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT In the ultimate act of flattery, House Speaker Mike Johnson is launching an international campaign to get President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize he's long coveted""this time for brokering a fragile ceasefire in Gaza and securing the release of Israeli hostages. "This is a historic moment that deserves enormous credit and recognition on the world stage. It's truly, truly historic," Johnson said on Tuesday. "For generations, we have aspired to peace in the Middle East. Everyone around the world has. And now President Trump has delivered it." October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM EDT House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries came out swinging at Tuesday's press conference, calling out House Speaker Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva and denouncing North Carolina Republicans' plans to further gerrymander their already tortured congressional maps. "Republicans currently have the narrowest majority of any party since the Great Depression""the narrowest majority since 1931," he said. "As I understand it, a three-seat majority once Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. That should be happening today, by the way. But they're running scared because of their efforts to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people." October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM EDT House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries came out swinging at Tuesday's press conference, calling out House Speaker Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva and denouncing North Carolina Republicans' plans to further gerrymander their already tortured congressional maps. "Republicans currently have the narrowest majority of any party since the Great Depression""the narrowest majority since 1931," he said. "As I understand it, a three-seat majority once Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. That should be happening today, by the way. But they're running scared because of their efforts to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people." |
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