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No administration likes leaks, except for the leaks they send out on purpose, such as trial balloons in order to find out how popular an idea might be, or to smear a foe or to praise a friend. The ...
chloris creator 12/01/2025
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The headline is true — my mom’s people used to be considered less than fully white. �For those who know me, this is an amusing fact. �I am extremely white. �Hockey is my favorite sport. �I think ...
angryea 12/01/2025
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� � �The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford , which held that African Americans, ...
Matthew D Jones 12/01/2025
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"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/01/2025
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Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad was arraigned for allegedly shoplifting buttons, one day after the former Panamanian dictator was convicted of dealing drugs for a cocaine cartel. Much like Nicolae Ceaușescu’s plumbing fetish, there are always...
annieli 12/01/2025
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The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ...
Mokurai 12/01/2025
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New York Times : Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump ...
Greg Dworkin 12/01/2025
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Welcome back friends to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR Discord ) bring you all the good news to start your ...
Jessiestaf 12/01/2025
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________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life...
officebss 12/01/2025
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the US-proposed peace plan aims to ensure Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and economic development, during the US-Ukrainian talks in Hallandale Beach, Florida on November 30. Other Key Takeaways:...
annieli 12/01/2025
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When I first heard about face book i joined because many of my friends had and it was a way to see what they were all up to. Then it became a place to share notices about my upcoming performances in the Singapore Slingers — A 1920s fox trot orchestra...
iarnstein 12/01/2025
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Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ...
bsegel 12/01/2025
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ZenTrainer 11/30/2025
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Greetings fellow Kossacks. I’m putting out a call for�help. 10 Gems is faltering as @eeff no longer has a desktop computer, @Colonel Nicholson can’t contribute anymore, and I have a severe ...
OzPerspective 11/30/2025
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I hope everyone had a fine holiday weekend. I made a ton of stuffing this year, and turned some of the leftovers into Leftover Stuffing Bread Pudding, with a bit of queso Oaxaca added for that ...
Youffraita 11/30/2025
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The last day to start working for the Federal Government under the old Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) was Dec 31, 1983. When you have worked for 41 years and 11 months, you have earned a retirement annuity equal to 80% of the average of your...
DonaldWindrip 11/30/2025
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ...
side pocket 11/30/2025
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Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives,...
Lawrence S Wittner 11/30/2025
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
gizmo59 11/30/2025
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strawbale 11/30/2025
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What’s behind that kind of reasoning? What’s the deal?
pablobernal 11/30/2025
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Just when you thought you’ve seen everything there is to see about upcycling, recycling, and otherwise managing the mountain of waste generated by modern society, on November 30 DrFlora post a great article about upcycling men’s cotton shirts to make...
JerseyDem25 11/30/2025
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I champion the 'not us' who bring richness to the tapestry of our lives. Who among us is 1st nations? The President has a stated goal of ending birthright citizenship, but if you have 1,000,000 to toss about you can get in by getting a Trump Gold Card....
iarnstein 11/30/2025
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Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison...
annieli 11/30/2025
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Recreating obsolete technology.� A nerd journey.� � Vanity mirrors have a curve to them.� It allows you to see yourself bigger than you are.� Ideal for grooming.� Three thousand years ago everyone ...
ynohtnA 11/30/2025
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Sleep Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ...
side pocket 11/30/2025
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“E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”) — once the US’ official motto, which still appears in a wavy scroll near the eagle, in the Great Seal on the back of every dollar bill. What makes us us? What makes us “America”? What makes us...
dratler 11/30/2025
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The story broke several days ago and NPR “U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces” wrote this in part: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting...
josterberg 11/30/2025
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First it was to kill just anyone on 5th Avenue, then protesters in Lafayette Park, then criminal illegal aliens, then FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations,) then DTOs (Domestic Terrorist Organizations,) then any illegal aliens, then entire countries...
Morgan Reynolds 11/30/2025
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We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...
Clio2 11/30/2025
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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 ...
Girasol 11/30/2025
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz on ABC ‘This Week With George Stephanopolus’ roundtable says republicans have caved on Ukraine. Republicans support for strong aggressive action in Ukraine has melted from 75 percent to 30 percent. Chris Christy says...
OakCA 11/30/2025
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The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...
Besame 11/30/2025
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The Autopen Gambit: When Political Theater Costs Billions President Trump just announced he's canceling "all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so...
lobachevsky 11/30/2025
03:34 PM
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The Google A.I. Gemini sucked up to me as I applied it to this page. That's an insightful connection, and the web page you are viewing directly addresses both Karl Marx's concept of General ...
annieli 11/30/2025
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Though not considered to be film noir, which is one of my favourite genres, 1944's To Have and Have Not is one of my fav films from that period. Though it is considered to be derivative of Casablanca, that doesn't take much if anything away from it,...
metzomagic 11/30/2025
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On Truth Social, Donald Trump is using the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members stationed in Washington DC to add to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim hysteria. He announced he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World...
Alan Singer 11/30/2025
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TAKE ACTION Write, Email or CALL Capitol Switchboard (202) 224‑3121 to tell your elected officials to stop dropping sh*t on our cities. CLICK HERE to find your officials’ contact information. We must stand up and speak out, not because something is...
Power of One 11/30/2025
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[← Start here Part 1 ] [Previous Chapter] [Next Chapter Coming Soon→] [Start theCompanion Book Attuned→] The clouds bunched and stretched across the sky like sheep herded by a lazy child. The smell of wet earth was rising already, though the rain...
AuntieB 11/30/2025
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The killing of boat strike survivors story is rapidly metastasizing into the one that actually might bring down the T administration. The news that Congress will be vigorously investigating the murders/war crimes should set the WH off into deep panic...
Tablas 11/30/2025
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There are moments in American history when the actions of a few reveal the moral stakes for the entire nation. We are in one of those moments now. The story that Heather Cox Richardson has outlined over the past two days is not simply another troubling...
Shawn510 11/30/2025
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Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour.� This is an open thread so grab something to drink and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have always said the most important person ...
michelewln 11/30/2025
01:00 PM
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Yes, some will label a Democrat “radical” if they’re on the leading edge of an issue. And? Will a Democrat be immune from criticism from the right or from the chattering class if they take a more middle-of-the-road position? Not likely! But they’ll get...
Rob in Vermont 11/30/2025
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“Trump’s Choices of Words Have Consequences”– Congratulations Indiana’s GOP State Senator Mike Bohacek for Finally Growing Some Spine! November 30, 2025 Many people have been absolutely astounded that Dictator/Demagogue Donald has been able to get away...
Blue Choir Singer 11/30/2025
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Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...
Brainwrap 11/30/2025
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Presidents throughout history have had some rocky relationships with the free press. It's a natural conflict given the media's mission to report truthfully about everything that a political leader does and says, and the leader's determination to always...
News Corpse 11/30/2025
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A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your ...
FosterMomInCA 11/30/2025
12:01 PM
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For once, Newsweek has an interesting article about how health insurance premiums for those obtaining it through the ACA will increase for next year when the enhanced subsidies dry up. Basically, Newsweek pulled this information from the Kaiser Family...
Merlin196360 11/30/2025
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richlu 11/30/2025
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Just short take on how we can use ChatGTP to research important issues where accuracy is essential. During my wife’s 2.5 year nightmare with ovarian cancer, I spent hundreds of hours researching every procedure, medication, how any and all of the...
riverguy99 11/30/2025
11:21 AM
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TDS is just an excuse used by Trumplicans to discredit and demean those who actually care about what is happening - and about someone other than themselves. Yes, Trump lives in my brain, rent free. Yes, I’m constantly obsessing about his criminal...
ST4U 11/30/2025
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Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025
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💚The Hero's Journey - Happy Birthday Marines Nov 10th💚 Marine Toys For Tots Need Toys? Get Toys Applying For Toys - About Marine Toys For Tots Find Your Local Marine Toys for Tots Chapter To request a toy; submit your application with...
rebel ga 11/30/2025
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My theory on defeating a Trump organization that seemingly only understands profit, especially for white folks, is to deny them that profit. Seemingly, the best way to defeat his PFA nonsense it to make it unprofitable, at least in the U.S. Until we...
Btemmink 11/30/2025
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Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about....
Trenz Pruca 11/30/2025
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The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Happened in the 1980s You've seen the arguments. Seed oils are poison. Sugar is the devil. Fast food destroyed America. The government ruined everything. Or maybe it's all Big Pharma's fault. Everyone's got a villain....
lobachevsky 11/30/2025
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I came out as bisexual in 2009. It was hard, having been raised to believe that being queer was the worst thing you could be, worse than a murderer, a rapist or a pedophile, as gay people were automatically all 3. It was, I thought, the hardest thing I...
A Bleeding God 11/30/2025
09:45 AM
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Sound up Holy Shit! This is where my story ends. Anything between this and the comments has nothing to do with me. ZT
ZenTrainer 11/30/2025
09:41 AM
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Russia has been selling off some of its gold reserves to finance the war, but even that desperate move won’t work forever. Russia’s central bank has about 2,330 tons of gold in its reserves (worth about $300 billion) and the National Wealth Fund held...
quaoar 11/30/2025
09:32 AM
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I want to help, but Countless people around the globe want to help those facing hard times so they say. But the number of obstacles people seem to place on their own path towards helping others has me baffled most of the time. That’s one of the major...
MurielVieux 11/30/2025
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Hunger did not end with the Government opening and #SNAP benefits being paid. As I wrote earlier this month www.dailykos.com/... ABC reporting here. Benefits may have returned but people could rely on assistance from food pantries as they catch up on...
Smurf 11/30/2025
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conditioning As this administration violates norms nearly every day, what matters most is its consistency. Each new transgression adds to a body of anti-democratic moves that condition us to accept aberrance and become inured to it. What was once...
vjr7121 11/30/2025
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How do oligarchies and their crony capitalists manage to dominate our lives: Five points on the current treachery First, the WSJ story highlights all of the downsides to Trump’s brand of start-up diplomacy. Both Witkoff and the Russians had little...
annieli 11/30/2025
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The second part and sequel to the Talk about "go"! My 50th anniversary in model rocketry this time from the ‘90s on…. I find myself on a weekend deep in the middle of sunniest June 1994 on a daylight savings evening. I’m down in the basement of Mom’s...
Stude Dude 11/30/2025
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Politics usually turns into shouting past each other. But sometimes, the clearest way to understand power is not in a debate hall or a think-tank — it’s in a walk through Central Park. This dialogue is between Eli, a working-class New Yorker excited...
jasciu 11/30/2025
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Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration. In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ...
Chrislove 11/30/2025
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Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface....
KeithDB 11/30/2025
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The Trump Administration has launched a website claiming to debunk/disprove biased media reports on it's actions. It doubles down on the claim that the American military veterans and intelligence service members who created the now famous "refuse...
A Pagan in Arizona 11/30/2025
07:25 AM
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Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025
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Introduction Here is another month showing the changes in how we generate electricity in the US of A. I have made some changes to the charts that I hope will make the information more clear. The ...
RustyRobot 11/30/2025
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This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school...
belinda ridgewood 11/30/2025
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Seriously, what have they got to lose?
martoons1 11/30/2025
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Why Trumpism Makes Obsolete Psychological Terms Trend Again Indiana State Senator Mike Bohacek (R) recently took to Facebook to warn that “words have consequences” after the president hurled a slur during a late-night immigration rant, branding a...
bison 11/30/2025
06:21 AM
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When we last left our intrepid hero, he was crossing the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. However, unlike his pseudo-namesake, Lawrence of Arabia, who crossed the Nefud on a camel (at least according to the movie), our hero did it on Saudia Airlines…and...
laniusX 11/30/2025
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UPDATE: Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 · 3:50:32 PM Eastern Standard Time · RandomNeuron Mission accomplished. No toes run over. Gifts found, cards purchased . Curious kid s seen. last gift purchased today. A coffee cup for a staff person who help care for him....
RandomNeuron 11/30/2025
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This is an important story published by the WSJ of the story behind the Ukraine/Russia “peace deal” and how it is driven by the self-dealing grifters in the White House and its extended group of megadonors working to maximize their spoils of war....
AKALib 11/30/2025
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I hope everyone has recovered from the big meals, football games and travel. �This is a light version for those very reasons. �I didn’t travel for the holiday, but enjoyed family time and football ...
Janesaunt 11/30/2025
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Once Trump is out of office – and one way or another, he will be – and Democrats have regained the Federal trifecta of Presidency, House, and Senate – and they will – it will be time to act to ensure that this never happens again. While restraining the...
psychbob 11/30/2025
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Making the military into media production extras, Trump can do things in DC he hasn’t been able to do elsewhere in the country. We deport. You decide. Original RIFF on original Nothing in her mission suggested she would die on a street corner while...
annieli 11/30/2025
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The Washington Post reported on Friday that Pete Hegseth commanded US forces to “kill everybody” on a small wooden fishing boat off the coast of Trinidad on September 2, 2025. This included two men seen clinging for their lives to charred wreckage...
sabrina haake 11/30/2025
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I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. �Or, for those who do not celebrate, a nice Thursday. A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From. : Science will ID the dead planet ...
angryea 11/30/2025
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Hmm, where to start? A modern definition, American Psychological Association n. benevolent and helpful action intentionally directed toward another person. Kindness is often considered to be motivated by the desire to help another, not to gain explicit...
LaFeminista 11/30/2025
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We began posting Good News Roundups (GNRs) in 2017. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating corporate media. Choosing not to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage...
2thanks 11/30/2025
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We begin today with� Heather Cox Richardson �writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. In the ...
Chitown Kev 11/30/2025
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Good morning, everyone. This morning’s artist is the Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Though he was only 31 when he died, he left a vast body of work. This diary only gives you three examples, ...
Ice Blue 11/30/2025
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Whistleblower Wendell Potter reveals how Medicare Advantage denies care, inflates costs, and enriches Wall Street while draining the Medicare trust fund. Wendell Potter: The Medicare Advantage ...
Egberto Willies 11/30/2025
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Laying out the shirt stripe box pattern The Shirt Stripes Box quilt design, featured in Kaffe Fassett’s Passionate Patchwork , is an invitation to upcycle everyday fabric as a clever, eye-...
DrFlora 11/30/2025
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Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ...
bsegel 11/30/2025
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I swear, this year has lasted forever and it’s still almost over. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, ...
loggersbrat 11/29/2025
09:55 PM
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It’s always about the money, unfortunately US/Russian money. The war will end when Russia leaves. And crony capitalism will be all the more wealthier. Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sell out Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad...
annieli 11/29/2025
09:02 PM
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
FarWestGirl 11/29/2025
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GOOD NEWS from the Pokrovsky-Dobropilya direction. Remember the alarm back in August 2025 when Russia surprised and made a bee line towards Dobropilya in the hopes of creating a northern pincer against Pokrovsk as well as drive a wedge between Pokrovsk...
Decimus 11/29/2025
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strawbale 11/29/2025
07:00 PM
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The mind can be a fickle monster. A chemical imbalance, some faulty wiring, and things can happen. Any recovering addict will tell you that they’re still an addict. Ask a neurodivergent person how ...
zenbassoon 11/29/2025
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Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...
Dartagnan 11/29/2025
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Per NBC news, state Sen. Michael Bohacek is voting against the upcoming redistricting bill. Source: www.nbcnews.com/… It’s not clear yet what impact this will have on the vote tally or its efforts, but Bohacek was quite blunt about his reaction to...
Toro Blanco 11/29/2025
05:13 PM
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As you must be aware, Airbus has grounded and ordered software updates (downgrades actually) for ~6,000 A320 family aircraft — more than half its global fleet — in the middle of this busy holiday weekend - after discovering that bit flips in the flight...
AKALib 11/29/2025
05:06 PM
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Many Native women promote�the true story of Thanksgiving:� Ramona Peters : The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving: After Squanto’s aid with corn and other planting, the pilgrims had a ...
elenacarlena 11/29/2025
05:01 PM
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American Psycho satirizes the narcissism, greed and insecurity of the corporate world, and the murders are a metaphor for the frenzy of the territorial male. Trump is turning the nation against him. Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term...
annieli 11/29/2025
05:00 PM
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I’m recycling old recipes again. This is probably my favorite recipe that I found here on dKos.�I love pretty much any kind of noodle dish, but these are awesome. --- Singapore Noodles from� ...
esquimaux 11/29/2025
04:30 PM
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