Celebrate Cyber Monday by streaming this new Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social and Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social .

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The high seas murders are not being overlooked by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Remember when Pete Hegseth fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Thank goodness Mr. Trump is finally tackling the affordability crisis.

In normal times, I might think of Michael Bohacek as being on the “other side.” But we are in enemy-of-my-enemy territory here, and I am happy to call Republican Indiana state senator Bohacek, a hero!

… totally illegible if you aren’t super clear about the trajectory of his career.

Perhaps more importantly, this is a deeply self critical guy who admitted *this year* that he’s just now realizing that the kinds of understandings of exec power that were totally common at DOJ are incredibly dangerous. So he encapsulates trajectories of exec branch lawyering that are …

For those who don’t know, Jack served in the Bush administration but resigned in protest of the extra constitutional claims made by the administration. He’s no left wing radical, but he care about the Constitution. He has forgotten more about executive power than I could ever hope to learn.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.

No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.

20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social and Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social serve up a Thanksgiving Wednesday Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... with all the fixin's!

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Shockwaves and aftershocks from the Marjorie Taylor Greene resignation by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Hey David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social, here's the summary for that Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... that you did today with Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social. Repost it to all of your friends!

Lying under oath? Seriously? The case against Comey is as hypocritical as it is weak and incompetent. From Trump on down, this is an administration people who got their jobs by misleading and outright lying to Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

ANOTHER high-profile criminal defendant is seeking court order to *disqualify* acting US Atty Lindsey Halligan of Virginia Mohammad Sharifullah, who was charged in March for AbbeyGate terror attack in Afghanistan in 2021 Trump announced this case in Joint Session to Congress

Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

It's not what you know, it's who you know, as long as you are smart enough to know David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social and Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social and listen to Kagro in the Morning. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Charlie Kirk was a tool. I mean that literally. He was useful to the American right for organizing and propaganda, then they thought they could use his death to silence and persecute people they don't like, which worked a bit but fizzled, and then he was no longer of use to them so they moved on.

NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with @propublica.org @texastribune.org? We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Weak stable genius makes DOJ the focus of the Epstein cover-up by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Yeah, well, as long as we have the surrender Democrat senators, never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot over and over and over again.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

hot take: the legal experts who say Pam Bondi will block everything may be right, but that has nothing to do with the politics of Trump making his DOJ the core of the Epstein cover-up www.ms.now/news/trumps-...

For me and clearly many others, the SOB test is now the primary lens for judging Democratic candidates. Every election at every level, from now through 2028, is a referendum on an unbearable presidency. My latest, at The Big Picture. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/democrats-...

The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.

Let's call it the Trump Murder Memo. Based on what we know about it, this memo looks like it may be substantially worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should be talking more about this. #TrumpMurderMemo

“.. Democrats’ sweeping victories last week have the party eyeing gains in even Trumpier territory .. a district .. Trump carried by more than 20 points last November.” @politico.com #TN07 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The Epstein files redux by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Two hours of entertainment and elucidation packed into two hours. Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social and Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social.

Election and shutdown analysis curated by the eagle-eyed @demfromct.bsky.social in this politics pundit roundup. I was upset about the "deal," but I'm now convinced the shutdown itself has cast a harsh light on GOP indifference to high costs and health struggles. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

#BREAKING: Over a public dissent from Justice Jackson, #SCOTUS *extends* the temporary pause of the district court’s order that had mandated full SNAP payments for November—keeping that ruling (and those payments) on hold through the end of the day this Thursday:

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

With multiple procedural steps and potential derailment points still ahead in order to actually end the shutdown, you cannot overlook the fact that this president and these Republicans are more fumble-prone than any politicians in history.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

'The biggest day of protest in US history as an estimated 7 million people showed up for No Kings on 18 October in small towns and red counties as well as big blue cities.'

Helluva hed: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous. Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post: newrepublic.com/article/2028...

"Crooked Hillary" "Sleepy Joe" It's almost like there's a pattern here, but I just can't put my finger on it....

This is ALSO a media story. Non-white, young, and low-income voters were misled about what Trump would do. Now they’re learning, and they hate it.

From the 16 Virginia House of Delegates freshmen from the 2017 blue wave: 4️⃣ earned their 5th term to the House Tuesday; 1️⃣ is returning to the House for a 4th term after a two-year hiatus; 3️⃣ of us in 2023 earned election to the Senate of Virginia (4-year term); and 1️⃣ is the attorney general-elect.

This week was the Trump regime taking loss after loss after loss. Just a steady stream of humiliation. I don't have anything to add, I just wanted to remind you.

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?