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Museum of Work: Axes and other sharp things (photo diary)
The Montana Museum of Work History in Wye, Montana is located in a store with exhibits high on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. The museum, located in the Axmen store, has exhibits featuring ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Hall of World War II: Pearl Harbor (museum exhibit)
The Hall of World War II in the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon is a huge exhibit showing World War II in models. One exhibit shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Veterans Car Show: Plymouths and Dodges (photo diary)
Shown below are some of the Plymouths and Dodges in the 2025 40et8 Annual Labor Day Car Show in Vancouver, Washington.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Museums 401: Washing Machines (photo diary)
We don’t know for sure how long humans have been� wearing clothes. But we can be certain that sometime after clothing was “invented” the need to wash or clean clothes to rid them of dirt, ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 185
ZenTrainer 12/09/2025 1
📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII
In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) � will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and ...
nomandates 12/06/2025 7
The Top Ten Reasons Why Donald Trump Received the FIFA Peace Prize
Trump Deserved It, Too! In case you missed this story. Trump was also up against some tough competition. The Top Ten Reasons Trump Deserved the FIFA Peace Prize #10 — For Trump’s Grace Under Pressure #9 — Well… Because #8 — Trump Likes Getting...
JekyllnHyde 12/06/2025 23
Sudan The Forgotten War(s).
The history of conflict in Sudan ...
rebel ga 12/06/2025 6
Dahlias (photo diary 9)
Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon, hosts an Annual Dahlia Festival. The Festival features 50 acres of Dahlias. Dahlias were originally native to Mesoamerica where they were domesticated by ...
Ojibwa 12/06/2025 9
Caribbean Matters: The heinous boat bombings continue
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...
Denise Oliver Velez 12/06/2025 118
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183
ZenTrainer 12/06/2025 26
Campaign of terror continues—hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria
In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. Based on past abductions like these, authorities presume the ...
FreedomUnited 12/06/2025 7
Insomniacs' Venthole
Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. �This is a late-night gathering for non-serious palaver, enter at your own risk. Frivolity and silliness are highly ...
MTmofo 12/05/2025 6
FUN FACT: Donald Trump is the First Rapist to Win the FIFA Peace Prize!
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...
ShowerCap 12/05/2025 71
I THINK I AGREE WITH THE TN PROJECTIONS
I have kept my mind open about what exactly happened in the TN special house election. I really did not want to make the statement that this is a bellwether but that has changed. We live in a small town on the Easternshore of Maryland. I will state...
BlueCrabby 12/05/2025 78
Trump tries to revoke all Biden pardons, orders and laws signed by autopen
This is a weird obsession of Drumphfs. He delusionally believes that Biden was so mentally addled while in office that he had no idea what laws, order or pardons were being issued in his name. He has therefore ordered that all documents signed by...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/05/2025 20
Judge orders public release of Jeffrey Epstein-related grand jury records in Florida
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...
TheCriticalMind 12/05/2025 35
Meet Pete Hegseth, Drunken War Criminal — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #8)
Please Support Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” As you know, Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones is recovering from a stroke, but has started posting again on DK and...
JekyllnHyde 12/05/2025 47
Earth Matters: Fuel economy retreat feeds Trump's energy bonfire; plus a Stewart & Kolbert convo
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...
Meteor Blades 12/05/2025 30
Stonehenge Air Museum: C-47 and F-5 (photo diary)
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 ...
Ojibwa 12/05/2025 5
What are you reading? December 5, 2025
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 ...
Chitown Kev 12/05/2025 32
Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails
I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links...
Mokurai 12/05/2025 9
RANT
Bombing the shit out of a bunch of small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific to satisfy the blood lust of a demented old man is WRONG! The Senators and Representatives who go along with this are as complicit as the military officers who ordered the...
Mitch inWWA 12/04/2025 77
Write On! Seasons Writings, or, the Advent of Winter
Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...
dconrad 12/04/2025 56
Write-On Weekly Fiction Works in Progress (WIP) diary: A Busyness of Ferrets (DaKoWriMo)
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 ...
sagesource 12/04/2025 26
🕎✡️Dmytro Klebanov-1st Symphony In Memoriam To The Martyrs of Babi Yar, Ukraine-US Premiere
Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...
Tippy and Dad 12/04/2025 35
The village of Mammoth Hot Springs
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 16
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths? 
We all seemed to breathe a sigh of relief two weeks ago when it was reported the “Chainsaw” Musk’s DOGE and the DOGEbags had ceased operating inside our national government. It was a lie. Mike Masnick posted on TechDirt, Dec 3rd 2025, Forget Whether Or...
NBBooks 12/04/2025 11
Indians 101: Nobleman and Daughter (museum exhibition)
The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 1
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181
ZenTrainer 12/04/2025 29
The PLA General Who Refused to Wage War Against Student Protesters in 1989
By an odd historical coincidence, just as potential war crimes are finally being directed against the US military officers (and their civilian overseers in the Defense Department) involved with the now 3-month long terror campaign against small boats...
Irontortoise 12/03/2025 14
Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary)
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 4
Portland Art Museum: Spanish Colonial Art (museum exhibition)
The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon held an exhibition, Highest Heaven: Andean Art from the Elvin Duerst Bequest , featuring art from the Spanish viceregal or colonial period from 1521 ...
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 2
Nonfiction Views: Franklin the Turtle vs Hegseth, plus the week's notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. A little late posting this evening. This afternoon we had to say goodbye to out sweet kitty Charlie Brown. He was a wonderful companion, and we will miss him. There have been dozens of musicians who have pushed back and even...
DebtorsPrison 12/02/2025 12
Contemporary Fiction Views: A newly translated Olga Tokarczuk work to savor
This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ...
bookgirl 12/02/2025 10
Hidden History: China's Almost-War With Taiwan and the US
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ...
Lenny Flank 12/02/2025 14
TN 7th Congressional District: GOP Meltdown in the Special Election? (Updated with Results Links)
UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...
JekyllnHyde 12/02/2025 161
Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions
Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and...
Meteor Blades 12/02/2025 199
Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ...
Ojibwa 12/02/2025 4
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 179
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 42
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 12.1.25
�I pay my electric and gas bills with a budget program called the Equal Payment Plan (EPP).� After a year of service, the companies�average out your monthly payments. I’ve done this for years and ...
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 102
The decline in Trump's approval stuns CNN's numbers guy. The GOP is staring at a midterm abyss
In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him...
TheCriticalMind 12/01/2025 149
Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit)
Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions
I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/01/2025 119
Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit)
The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
Morning Open Thread: There Will Be Dancing At My Funeral
________________________________________________________ “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 67
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 178
ZenTrainer 11/30/2025 13
📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️‍🌈​;
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 11
AntiCapitalist MeetUp - The A.I. Bubble: peak A.I. is not like 'peak oil' or peak tulip
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 15
Opting to be on the leading edge: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris's missed opportunity
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 64
Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary)
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 2
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 177
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 35
Museums 501: Sewing machines (photo diary)
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 11
This Week in the War on Women, 11/23-29/25: Thanksgiving Week Open Thread
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 58