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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, December 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM EST December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST As part of a campaign to advance Donald Trump's racist smears of Somali immigrants, Republicans are ignoring fraud prosecutions that occurred under Democrats while promoting an anti-immigrant YouTuber. Over the weekend, a video by conservative YouTube personality Nick Shirley was promoted by several prominent Republicans. The video shows Shirley visiting several childcare centers in Minnesota, alleging that they are inactive but receive state funding. The video alleges that the centers run by Somali immigrants are being allowed to defraud taxpayers under Gov. Tim Walz and are part of a pattern going back to the Biden administration. December 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump's administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to "adapt, shrink or die" in a time of new financial realities. The money is a small fraction of what the U.S. has contributed in the past but reflects what the administration believes is a generous amount that will maintain the United States' status as the world's largest humanitarian donor. December 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump's administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to "adapt, shrink or die" in a time of new financial realities. The money is a small fraction of what the U.S. has contributed in the past but reflects what the administration believes is a generous amount that will maintain the United States' status as the world's largest humanitarian donor. December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST Enjoy these cartoons highlighting the many ways that Vice President JD Vance is the worst. And feel free to share more of your favorites in the comments. Cartoon: In their own words, by Clay BennettOriginally published Aug. 7, 2024.December 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST The Trump administration's comprehensive assault on the federal workforce has a new victim: charitable giving. The Washington Post is reporting that the federal workers' charity drive, the Combined Federal Campaign, has seen a 40% drop in donations this year. The Office of Personnel Management has magnanimously announced it will extend the drive into January, but it's looking bleak. December 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST By Renuka Rayasam for KFF David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore's deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he's defused hundreds of fights that could have led to a shooting. December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM EST Full disclosure, this is a lightly-edited encore presentation of a cartoon that first ran seven years ago. Even hard-working cartoonists need a little time off during the holidays! As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky's List! You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon, the content is the same. Don't forget to visit the Tom Tomorrow Merchandise Mall, and, if you're so inclined, follow me on Bluesky! December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST Amid the waking hell of the second Trump administration, it's hard not to pine for 2028. And the Democratic presidential primaries are just over two years away, so it's a great time to take stock of the prospects""and what better way than to rank them? Things will change a lot in the next two years, but the polling firm Echelon Insights has been conducting regular surveys of the prospective 2028 field since days after the 2024 election. And here are the six Democrats who have polled at an average of 5% or better in the four most recent surveys. December 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM EST A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | CBS News' censorship of '60 Minutes' story spectacularly backfires December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST When President Donald Trump hired Tom Homan as his "border czar," despite an FBI investigation into very convincing evidence that he took a literal bag of cash as a bribe, there were no misgivings that law and order would prevail. And it was all caught on video. December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST This year was filled with cowardly behavior from GOP lawmakers, who rolled over at every turn to let President Donald Trump neuter them of their power, trample on the Constitution, and destroy the economy and job market with his idiotic tariffs and evil deportation policies. And their subservience to Trump didn't do anything to help their own political fates, as Trump's approval rating sinks to new embarrassing lows that threaten the GOP's congressional majorities heading into the 2026 midterms. |
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