March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
New White House spin on leak scandal: Musk will investigate

The Trump administration's initial response to the damaging leak of sensitive war plans has been to task billionaire Elon Musk with leading an investigation into the matter. But national security experts have pointed out the real problem is the administration's decision to host an unsecured chat""not that a reporter was granted access to it, which is what Musk's investigation will apparently focus on. "Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat, again to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.

March 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT
JD Vance shoots a big boy gun before heading off to bully Greenland

Vice President JD Vance took a break from praying for a deadly drone to hit its target to serve Marines lunch at a base in Quantico, Virginia, on Wednesday. It was the least he could do after endangering military servicemembers by participating in a catastrophically compromised text thread and discussing war plans with the highest-ranking members of Donald Trump's national security team on an unsecure phone app. Oh, and he also got to shoot a big boy gun!

March 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
Federal workers toil in hellish conditions while Trump golfs

Federal workers across the country are packing up their laptops and heading into hastily designated workspaces as their freedom to work from home comes to an abrupt end, thanks to arbitrary changes made by Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency and backed by President Donald Trump.  But even those who survived Musk's mass firings, emailed buyout offers, and strange "What did you do last week" email ultimatums are now having to contend with an even worse reality. 

March 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT
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March 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT
Media downplays Trump team's massive leak fiasco as mere 'blunder'

Many mainstream media outlets are minimizing or trivializing the Trump administration's leak of highly sensitive war plans, and in doing so, they are echoing President Donald Trump's spin on the scandal. After The Atlantic reported on Monday that top Trump officials had mistakenly included the outlet's top editor in an unsecured group chat, Trump told reporters that the breach was merely a "glitch." And Trump's allies struck the same tone in appearances in right-wing media.

March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
The Recap: Trump spins, Vance flees, and Democrats celebrate a win

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump launches new 'lawless' attack on voting rights

March 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM EDT
'Outrageous': Watch this congressman shred Trump team for war plans leak

Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado tore into the Trump administration during a House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, as more details emerged regarding the dangerous leaked war plans scandal.  "I spent my life in service to this country. I deployed three times to combat in service to this nation. I learned in that time in service that responsibility is core to leadership. You accept responsibility when things go wrong. You admit mistakes. You set the standard from the very top," he said.

March 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT
You won't believe Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest unhinged rants

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, has taken off her aluminum foil hat to tackle more pressing issues, like destroying public media and accosting journalists.  The chair of the Delivering on Government Efficiency Committee held a hearing Wednesday to attack the public broadcasting organizations, NPR and PBS.