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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, August 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM EDT President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin met Friday on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Alaska, to address Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. However, Trump's giddy reaction as Putin approached on the tarmac feels less than presidential. YouTube Video The Kremlin quickly shared clips of Trump smiling and chatting with Putin at the meeting, according to the Associated Press. August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM EDT Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee sought to defend his push to exclude noncitizens from census counts by invoking the Three-Fifths Compromise""in which slaves counted as only three-fifths of a person when determining apportionment of U.S. House seats. The comment came during a Friday appearance on Fox Business, in which Hagerty was seeking to advocate for and defend a new bill he introduced that would require a citizenship question on the decennial census and would count only U.S. citizens for apportionment of U.S. House districts and Electoral College votes. August 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM EDT A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Top Republican wants DC police state 'experiment' in other cities August 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM EDT Democrats' plan to redraw California's congressional districts leaked on Thursday, and showed that the party plans to rejigger the Golden State's U.S. House lines to eliminate as many as five Republican seats in the state, Politico reported. The leaked chart came the same day Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the legislature plans to hold a special election to pass a ballot measure that would suspend the state's independent redistricting commission and allow the legislature to redraw the state's House seats. Newsom said the suspension of the independent commission is critical in order to combat President Donald Trump and the GOP's naked attempt to rig the 2026 midterms with mid-decade redistricting in Texas. August 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM EDT Corey Lewandowski, the pugnacious brawler who once managed Donald Trump's first presidential campaign, will just not go away. No, literally. He has apparently exceeded the 130 days he can serve as a "special government employee"""but he's not leaving. August 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT President Donald Trump, in an on-brand episode of shooting the messenger, fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a weak July jobs report. As her replacement, he nominated E.J. Antoni, a Heritage Foundation economist, Project 2025 co-author, and long-time critic of the BLS. Antoni has called BLS numbers "phoney baloney" and has floated the idea of suspending the monthly jobs report altogether. In Trumpworld, that's the dream: Erase the bad consequences of his policies, or better yet, cook the numbers. August 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT By Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead for KFF Health News GOP lawmakers in the 10 states that refused the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion for over a decade have argued their conservative approach to growing government programs would pay off in the long run. August 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Poor Kristi Noem doesn't like 'South Park' highlighting her awfulness August 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM EDT Conservatives who have depicted Donald Trump as a strong "daddy" finally whipping the nation into shape have spent the past few days expressing over-the-top fears about cities. Despite their so-called tough guy image, leaders on the right have offered fearful remedies while pushing lies about urban crime. During the 2024 campaign Republicans characterized Trump as a "daddy" who was coming to straighten out misbehaving Americans supposedly coddled by maternal politicians like former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. August 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM EDT Conservatives who have depicted Donald Trump as a strong "daddy" finally whipping the nation into shape have spent the past few days expressing over-the-top fears about cities. Despite their so-called tough guy image, leaders on the right have offered fearful remedies while pushing lies about urban crime. During the 2024 campaign Republicans characterized Trump as a "daddy" who was coming to straighten out misbehaving Americans supposedly coddled by maternal politicians like former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. August 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. DeSantis is giddy to open another concentration camp August 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. DeSantis is giddy to open another concentration camp |
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