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My Dad was Father Christmas. Christmas was magic. We didn’t get the kind of toys you would see in the Sears Christmas catalog. My Mom created amazing dolls and stuffed animals with her brilliant sewing skills. My Dad gave us unexpected and beautifully...

The Rivals Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) On a night of whirling snow When every twig and star is dead There is a house where I can go � And ...

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So, now that we’ve entered the Daily Televised Nap phase of the Thousand Year Reich, I was thinking it’s probably time for that difficult talk about taking the keys to the death cult away from grandpa. No? Well, then, I suppose we may as well launch...

Venusian pasta and Martian waffles. How so easy it is to promote binary cognitive models that oppress entire populations using anachronistic�ideologies, because there’s always the promise of ...

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE ...

As most Daily Kos readers know by now, the White House has recently created a website which will purportedly battle bias in the news… Titled “A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips”, it seems to me that the intent is to gather “evidence” that any...

Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will review President Trump’s Executive Order stripping the children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States of their citizenship. Don’t ...

By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ...

"All person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Amendment XIV Section 1. A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese...

There is no such thing as “the white race.” (This is not to say white privilege isn’t real. White privilege is 100% real. White privilege is the purpose for which whiteness was invented in the 1600s in Virginia.) Right now you may be thinking: “What?”...

He escaped MAGA after years inside. His apology reveals how fear, conspiracy, and isolation fuel the movement. Ex-MAGA Activist Apologizes x ...

Anybody seen The Daily Show’s “Cocaine News” featuring Don Jr.? Yeah, Hunter Biden was busted for lying about having used drugs when he bought a handgun once and lied about it on the permit application. How many Elephant Guns and automatic rifles does...

Hi, Peeps! I can’t believe we’re already at Krampusnacht. Back when Christmas was separate from SantyKlaus (St. Nick — feast day 12/6), this was the guy who punished the naughty children. Our ...

On Friday, Federal District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of the Grand Jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein's Florida case. He wrote: In its instant motion, the Government argues that the newly enacted Act overrides Rule 6's prohibition on the...

There is no legal difference between pirates that attack ships in international waters and the U.S. Military attacks on motor boats on the high seas. The comment "if they are part of the drug trade, they deserve to be killed" or something like it is...

Newsom unexpectedly validates Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders as the voices defining America’s future—and exposes the failures of neoliberal politics in the process. Newsom Echoes Progressives ...

I guess if you unite the world in hating him, Trump is uniting the world. FIFA is demonstrating how fundamentally corrupt it is by awarding a “peace prize” to Trump. I really want to watch the World Cup next year, but FIFA is making it very very...

This analysis uncovers the uncomfortable truth: capitalism cannot produce universal prosperity without exploiting workers worldwide. Universal Prosperity Is Impossible Under Capitalism Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio)...

First the good news in monopoly www.levernews.com/… 12/3/2025 Youth hockey players at rinks associated with a corporate conglomerate can be immediately kicked off their team if any friends or family record their games, according to the current...

Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from...

“The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca (A TPJ Update and Critique of My 2022 Review) By Trenz Pruca Introduction: Revisiting an Old Warning Several years ago—back in the summer of 2022—I wrote a post on Trenz...

Young people are furious. A survey released this week by the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that under-30 Americans are “a generation under profound strain” who’ve lost pretty much any confidence in government or corporate institutions. By a 57%...

In news that is certain to get an FBI source fired by the corrupt clowns who sit atop the Justice Department and the FBI, CNN is reporting that the D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Coles Jr., has told the FBI that he believed the 2020 election was stolen....

Does the weather have you craving soup? It does me. Here are some that look tasty. Greek Beef & Barley Soup Recipe. �[3:46] ...

Outside of the Stonehenge Air Museum in Ferndale, Montana, is a C-47 Skytrain and an F-5. The museum takes its name from the full-size replica of Stonehenge on the nearby private golf course. All of ...

Okay, so this is a bit of a weird one, and just wanders off a bit, so you have been warned. The latests literary kerfuffle (and I will keep using this word until you admit its perfection) is about some poor person who said that they thought ambiguous...

The continued unimpeded dismantling of democratic systems, norms and values in superpower nations such as Russia, will result in dastardly fallouts that will impact the global community at-large. A countless number of nations will regress to...

Enough of your bullsh*t! Get a spine and make your party stand up for us! We can’t “relax” when our daily affordability is being threatened. TAKE ACTION Write, Email or CALL Capitol Switchboard (202) 224‑3121 to tell your elected officials to stop...

The Price of Blood: How the "Corrupt Administration of the Big Orange Gorilla and His Clique of Greedy, Brain-Dead Morons" Chose to Let the World's Children Die The figures, cold and implacable, have just been released. For the first time this century,...

www.thedailybeast.com/… The first blocks for the foundation of the backstory for future candidate B. Trump are starting to be laid. That team of grifters know they are nothing without their christian nationalists marks.

In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books… I am reading: Obsession: The Life and ...

Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ...

POLITICO : Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The ...

When Donald Trump pulled the plug on minting new pennies — declaring the humble one-cent coin a relic of “government inefficiency” — many Americans shrugged. After all, a penny is hardly ...

I know the norm on KOS is that every diary should be a thoughtful essay of some length. I’ve been a member for 16 years and had several “Recc’d” articles over the years with a few even earning their brief moment at the very top of the Rec List. I am...

Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection.

Happy Friday! For those that missed it yesterday, my chronic wound healed up finally, no more bi-weekly wound care appointments for me. That makes it less likely that I’ll have 2 or 3 appointments ...

Tonight’s selections from Television’s debut album, Marquee Moon . Originally published May 2022. They came, rewrote the book on guitar rock and then split up, leaving only a pair of seminal ...

Guest: Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein Also: J6 pipe bomber IG slams Hegseth Dems 'disturbed' by boat strike video Grand Jury denies new James indictment SCOTUS allows TX' racial gerrymander... Yikes. Quite a news day. We do our best to keep up on...

A user-friendly hike with old chums, after-the-jump ... But first : Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are ...

Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source...

Welcome to the Weekly Fiction WIP Thread! � This is a weekly community diary for writers here on Daily Kos to showcase microfiction, ongoing serialized stories, and pieces of larger works in ...

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS...

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Super bad redistricting news thanks to our lovely Extreme Court this evening. By a 6-3 decision, the racist Texas maps that will cost us between 2 to 5 seats WILL go into effect for 2026. This is a temporary stay until the Extreme Court rules on the...

Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America … Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, recently admonished the commoners in his own city that they should be “offering their humble and hearty thanks” to the super-rich, because,...

One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the...

When political archaeologists investigate the 2025 collapse of the GOP, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane will be used for a case study into why the Southwest turned blue. Tom Petty wasn’t thinking about Trump and Crane when he wrote Free Fallin’ but its lyrics...