Donald Trump Jr. said he wants people who “don’t think they know better” than his father, President-elect Trump, to be a part of the Republican administration. “I’m going to be heavily involved on the transition. I want to make sure now that we know who the real players are, the people who will actually deliver…
Striking New York Times tech workers have created a custom Connections puzzle so fans can get their daily fix without crossing the digital picket line. “We have seen a groundswell of support from subscribers who have been proudly tweeting about purposely breaking their game streaks to support our strikers,” says Jen Sheehan, spokesperson for the […]
Getty Images The New York Yankees’ year came to a close on Wednesday night with a loss in World Series Game 5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Whereas the Dodgers moved on to celebrating and planning their championship parade, the Yankees had to shift their focus to the future. That means, among other things, accepting […]
Fear of the oceans, or thalassophobia, is an understandable emotional reaction. The environment is dark, inhospitable to humans, and contains some of the planet’s biggest and weirdest creatures. But you can take some small comfort in the knowledge that, at the very least, evolution saved us from deep sea crocodiles. Crocodilian ancestors known as thallatosuchians […]
Of course, this being a Gaga video, her macabre costumes had to be avant-garde—and completely fabulous. If her eerie wardrobe is a disease, we simply do not want the cure. Playing a masked villain of sorts, Gaga emerges wearing a zippered gimp mask with a long, black, ruffled overcoat and extra-long steel fingernails; She runs […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has one job. Literally, one job. To win. Nothing else matters right now, and yet some people seem to have a difficult time with this. “As Vice President Kamala Harris makes a broad play to the political center, some Democrats worry that she is going too far in her bid to […]
New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s decision to preannounce disappointing earnings is no reason to sell the stock, Jim Cramer said Wednesday. “I find it surprising that anyone thinks [these results are] surprising,” Jim said. “If you sell the stock today, you’re only selling it because you’re reacting to the press reports and the analysts, who are backward […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the U.S. presidential election approaches, news reports and social media feeds are increasingly filled with data from public opinion polls. How do pollsters know which candidate is ahead in what swing state or with which key demographic group? Or what issues are most important to as many as 264 million […]
A view on Oct. 18, 2024, of destruction in Nabatieh, Lebanon, after Israeli warplanes launched massive air raids destroying a big part of the city’s old market and the municipal buildings. AP Images For readers of Western media since the start of the invasion of Lebanon, Israeli maneuvers appear to be a blinding success. Israeli […]
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump stages elaborate McDonald’s photo op to push absurd Harris lie Pretending to work an actual job was the hardest 15 minutes of his life. Who’s ‘sleepy’ now? Tired Trump cancels yet another interview […]
