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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 08:58 PM Jun 26

Trump's DOJ is targeting Daily Kos


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/26/2330241/-Trump-s-DOJ-is-targeting-Daily-Kos?

Trump’s DOJ is targeting Daily Kos

by kos
Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 7:01:07p CDT

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is coming after us.

That’s not a metaphor. It’s real.

I wish I could tell you more, but I’m not allowed to say anything further. Convenient, isn’t it? A perfect gift for an authoritarian regime—using the power of the state to silence dissent and debate, all while shielding Trump from criticism.

We’ve watched them go after ActBlue. After Media Matters. I guess it was inevitable that we’d get our turn.

But you all know me: I don’t back down from a fight. This is what I’m built for. Mounting a vigorous legal defense doesn’t come cheap, though. And as you all know, independent media isn’t flushed with cash these days. We certainly aren’t.


You—our supporters—got us through our legal fight with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I’m counting on you to help us now. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this one is existential.

So please contribute to Daily Kos’ legal defense.

Honestly, we were planning to fundraise for something entirely different—the next great version of Daily Kos. A new platform built for this community, with the features you’ve been begging for over the last two decades.

I can’t wait to tell you all about it. I’m downright bursting at the seams!

But first? We’ve gotta deal with this bullshit.

Here are other ways to support us in this fight.

As always, thank you for being here. We couldn’t do this without you.
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Trump's DOJ is targeting Daily Kos (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 26 OP
Wow newdeal2 Jun 26 #1
Wonder if we are next? Tree Lady Jun 26 #2
No need for spies. Everything you/me/we post is already scraped and ingested and being analyzed. erronis Jun 26 #3
Added to that they sold my mortgage Tree Lady Jun 27 #18
this is a much tinier site compared to DailyKos.... Jack Valentino Jun 26 #12
I can't say about size of people posting here etc. versus Kos but moniss Jun 27 #22
No wonder. It's going to get a lot worse. They already Klarkashton Jun 26 #13
So says the begging letter. Liberal In Texas Jun 26 #4
I was going to respond to you but I can't, however BOSSHOG Jun 26 #5
Kos is the founder of Daily Kos and I would never say such a thing about Earl... EastBayGuy Jun 26 #7
Sometimes when media, businesses etc. receive moniss Jun 26 #9
it's obvious they're going after leftwing sites NJCher Jun 26 #10
How about this is totally legit maybe? Klarkashton Jun 26 #14
Quite possibly a big solicitation email, but he sure blew the whole wad on THAT one! Jack Valentino Jun 26 #15
If I hadn't been around so many years to develop trust in both Kos and clearly, EarlG and Skinner before him, hlthe2b Jun 27 #20
Have trouble with AlterNet crashing. rickyhall Jun 26 #6
During the Nixon years and Vietnam moniss Jun 26 #8
I remember them tapping our phones NJCher Jun 27 #17
Yes indeed and so many people today have no idea moniss Jun 27 #21
Gotta wonder if the DOJ is fishing for member information. progressoid Jun 26 #11
he should "say anything further" and reveal all contact from the DOJ. FUndraising on this sucks nt msongs Jun 26 #16
I don't give a candied rat-fuck about a shit-talking MAGA fuckstain. Piss on every one of those fucking turds. SoFlaBro Jun 27 #19

erronis

(20,778 posts)
3. No need for spies. Everything you/me/we post is already scraped and ingested and being analyzed.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 09:54 PM
Jun 26

Last edited Fri Jun 27, 2025, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Not just current content. Everything that can be read from historical web captures also.

Assume facebuck, twitter, linkedin, reddit, etc. are also hoovered.

Assume that linkages between your logins and aliases are being connected also.

Oh, and of course, google already "owns" all content you've posted (emails, photos, videos). Microsoft cloudy services are also owned.

Tree Lady

(12,570 posts)
18. Added to that they sold my mortgage
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:58 AM
Jun 27

After telling me when I got loan they wouldn't to Mr Cooper, less than one month later major leak all my financial stuff, SS everything in dark web. I got email today my free 2 yrs of checking my credit is up. I guess now I get to pay for them taking over my loan...sigh...

Jack Valentino

(2,890 posts)
12. this is a much tinier site compared to DailyKos....
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:29 PM
Jun 26

We could be on the list, but are much further down the list....
and yeah, a lotta potential spies been here--

most of them get kicked out by outing themselves as right-wingers or Trump apologists...

moniss

(7,767 posts)
22. I can't say about size of people posting here etc. versus Kos but
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jun 27

I will say that we do not take a back seat to anybody when it comes to thoughtful postings and a minimum of nonsense. Earl G and the mods do the best job I've ever seen in all the many years being around of allowing a very wide range of discussion while also keeping the nonsense and personal attacks etc. away with good Forum rules, well checked and adjudicated.

I'm here because this site is about the issues, events and other topics and is about people being able to have spirited views and exchange with each other without making it about each other. I would point out also that nobody should think that this site isn't checked or participated in by at least some staff members to elected officials and media if not the officials etc. themselves.

Klarkashton

(3,670 posts)
13. No wonder. It's going to get a lot worse. They already
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:30 PM
Jun 26

Have unaccountable goons in the street unchecked.

Liberal In Texas

(15,461 posts)
4. So says the begging letter.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 09:57 PM
Jun 26

I'm getting a lot of these from various politicians and podcasters. Some of them talk about the RW targeting them some are just saying they need the money to keep up the fight. I'm sure Kos could use the money.

But the text is kind of fishy. "I wish I could tell you more, but I’m not allowed to say anything further. Convenient, isn’t it?" C'mon, why can't you "tell us more?" Convenient indeed. I can't imagine a situation where they're prevented discussing how the RW is targeting them.

It's just another solicitation email.


BOSSHOG

(43,454 posts)
5. I was going to respond to you but I can't, however
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:04 PM
Jun 26

I can make it easy for you to send me money.

moniss

(7,767 posts)
9. Sometimes when media, businesses etc. receive
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:15 PM
Jun 26

"requests" for info etc. from the DOJ/FBI they are instructed they cannot talk about it.

NJCher

(40,851 posts)
10. it's obvious they're going after leftwing sites
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:38 PM
Jun 26
It's just another solicitation email.


I wouldn't discount it that easily. As posted on this thread by moniss, lawyers tell their clients to be circumspect in what they say. Having fought legal battles myself, I understand where they are coming from. You can't make it easy for your adversary to hang you with your own words. (Although trump constantly gets away with it on the basis that he's nuts.)

Jack Valentino

(2,890 posts)
15. Quite possibly a big solicitation email, but he sure blew the whole wad on THAT one!
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:35 PM
Jun 26

I don't think KOS would have made such a post, without there being "something to it"---
but the immediate appeal for money with no real answers turned me off, as well


According to history, the DailyKos site OUGHT to be doing BETTER now,
with Trump back in the White House.... as far as users, ad revenue and contributions are concerned....

(They have often bemoaned the fact that all three fell off,
after Joe Biden kicked Trump out of the White House!)
So, with that situation reversed, I presume they should be doing better now!




hlthe2b

(110,829 posts)
20. If I hadn't been around so many years to develop trust in both Kos and clearly, EarlG and Skinner before him,
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 05:24 AM
Jun 27

--as well as several other smaller site developers who have been with us since the 2000 "selection" and some even longer, I might automatically share your skepticism. But, I have and I don't. Think about it. If exploitation (of fear) for fundraising was within their ethics, do you not think it would not have been done long ago--at least during the first TSF term?

moniss

(7,767 posts)
8. During the Nixon years and Vietnam
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:12 PM
Jun 26

they targeted "underground" newspapers. It still goes on today in places.

NJCher

(40,851 posts)
17. I remember them tapping our phones
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:53 AM
Jun 27

at our NOW office and also at the professors' homes who supported NOW.

We actually caught them in the act at one professor's residence.

Women's rights, for crying out loud. Cheebus.

moniss

(7,767 posts)
21. Yes indeed and so many people today have no idea
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:15 AM
Jun 27

of the repression of activists for all issues back then. In many areas you had to be aware of who you were interacting with. I can remember activists trying to use a bulk mail permit to send out information to a community about meetings on issues and they would take them to the local Post Office for mailing. The Post Office would take them and your payment and then they would languish in the back and not get delivered until the day of the meeting or later and so it would blunt the turnout. Local activists would have unofficial "background checks" made on them by the local police and elected officials.

msongs

(71,888 posts)
16. he should "say anything further" and reveal all contact from the DOJ. FUndraising on this sucks nt
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:55 PM
Jun 26

SoFlaBro

(3,581 posts)
19. I don't give a candied rat-fuck about a shit-talking MAGA fuckstain. Piss on every one of those fucking turds.
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 01:10 AM
Jun 27
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