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March 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT
Trump's former defense lawyer now oddly says she loves fighting crime

Alina Habba, the newly appointed interim U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, gave a rambling, Trumpian-level interview on Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow's podcast Thursday. Habba gave lip service to her new job, promising to "get crime off the streets." It seems that after years of working for a convicted criminal, Habba is ready to go after his political enemies crime.

 

March 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM EDT
Cartoon: In the eye of the beholder

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Trump is mad that his ugly portrait looks just like him

 

March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
World's richest man thinks you're a fraudster who deserves no benefits

Co-President Elon Musk gave an unhinged interview to Fox News on Thursday in which he referred to anyone who complains about not getting their Social Security benefits as being "fraudsters." The comment came while he defended the changes he's made that are breaking down the vital social safety net program. "One of the things I learned at PayPal was, you know who complains the loudest? And with the most amount of fake righteous indignation? The fraudsters. That's""it's a tell," Musk, the world's richest man who is worth more than $340 billion, told Fox News in an interview while he was surrounded by other members of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

 

March 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist

President Donald Trump launched a new attack on a revered American institution on Thursday night""a habit of his""with an executive order instructing Vice President JD Vance to begin purging the revered Smithsonian Institution of exhibits that do not align with Trump's vision of white male supremacy. The Smithsonian is a group of museums mostly located in Washington, D.C., and a zoo that are revered and respected around the world for preserving American history and culture. The attractions are one of the crown jewels of America's capital city and one of the primary reasons more than 25 million people visit Washington each year.

 

March 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT
'It looked like a kidnapping': Students continue to go missing under Trump

On Tuesday, people in masks and plainclothes surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts, declaring themselves police and detaining Ozturk. "It looked like a kidnapping. They approach her and start grabbing her with their faces covered. They're covering their faces. They're in unmarked vehicles.," Michael Mathis, whose security camera captured the incident, told The Associated Press.

 

March 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
Measles cases continue to spread as RKF Jr. slashes public health staff

Kansas has joined Texas in the ongoing measles outbreak, with 23 confirmed cases across six counties. Of those cases, 20 are in unvaccinated patients, and all but two are children.  On March 13, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed the state's first measles case since 2018.

 

March 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT
Cartoon: Consumer confidence

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Trump's disastrous trade war is killing US tourism

 

March 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT
Razor-thin House majority has the GOP sweating

House Republican leadership is hanging on by a thread, struggling to maintain control as members either resign or accept positions in President Donald Trump's Cabinet. With their already slim majority dwindling, passing Trump's top priorities is becoming increasingly challenging.  Right now, the GOP holds a razor-thin five-seat majority in the House""218 Republicans to 213 Democrats""with four vacancies, making every vote crucial. The situation has become so precarious that Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, has lost her nomination to Trump's Cabinet.

 

March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
The Recap: Vance heads to Greenland, Musk buys Wisconsin election, and Trump golfs

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. New White House spin on leak scandal: Musk will investigate

 

March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
The Recap: Vance heads to Greenland, Musk buys Wisconsin election, and Trump golfs

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. New White House spin on leak scandal: Musk will investigate

 

March 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT
RFK Jr. hires loon who pushed heinous treatment for kids with autism

The Department of Health and Human Services has hired anti-vaccine activist David Geier to analyze government data in search of thoroughly debunked links between immunizations and childhood autism. Geier, who holds a bachelor's degree in biology, has spent decades pushing discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Geier and his father have long been known for peddling bad science, with the scientific journal Nature even naming them among the world's top science deniers in 2010.

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