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| WYFP: Open Thread Another fun week in my building, Wednesday night I went to bed about 9pm and immediately I hear my neighbors out in the hall talking about “how to get in”. Those weren’t the words they used but, on past experience, that’s what the gist was. This has... |
blueoregon | 12/06/2025 | 5 |
| Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know.
Conservatives have spent the last week ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/06/2025 | 45 |
| Cartoon: No survivors A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Jack Ohman | 12/06/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains By � Amy Maxmen �for KFF The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common ... |
KFF | 12/06/2025 | 52 |
| HHS and its brain-wormed boss 'deadnamed' former Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name. They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 4 |
| Smoke on the Water: Fire in His Lies So wrathful, so mighty is our First Felon, he’s blown a chunk of our regressively culled taxes to immolate a skiff that looked to be lugging a ‘cargo’ of 11 souls toward Suriname. (That is, DIRECTLY AWAY FROM US.) Which vessel he, Trump, paints... |
Inspector Clueso | 12/06/2025 | 1 |
| The quiet part out loud before Red States become Confederate States of America, Part Deux You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 21 |
| We're Watching a Deranged Individual Occupying the American Presidency Yesterday, as reported by many media outlets, the current sitting president of the United States, at the end of a 2hr meeting of his cabinet, said ranted the following, about Somali-Americans and any other Muslim-Americans generally, to gathered... |
citixen | 12/06/2025 | 11 |
| Caturday Pootie Diary: HELPING I sat on the floor, surrounded by unwrapped gifts. I took stock. Wrapping paper? Check. Scissors? Check. Tape? I picked up the tape and held it in the air. “Check,” I said.
“Check what?” ... |
Flowergirl77 | 12/06/2025 | 93 |
| Great APR Today by Greg Dworkin. However, Trump's Approval Numbers Are WORSE than Reported. NOTE: I thought about putting this into the comments of today APR, but it was too lengthy. Therefore, I decided to write a diary entry instead. Thanks for this morning’s APR. I would just add one thing. I understand that statisticians prefer to take in... |
Merlin196360 | 12/06/2025 | 51 |
| Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for MLK day Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed. In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 12 |
| New Day Cafe - Saturday: Birds, Fishes, Flowers & Waters. Oh My! Good morning, beloved Newdists. I’ve spent the whole week guzzling soup and sleeping, and occasionally reading abject trash as a palate cleanser. It’s mostly worked. In fact, has helped prodigiously. I’m even feeling human, instead of feeling like wet... |
Crimson Quillfeather | 12/06/2025 | 138 |
| Vampire Billionaire Attacks Pope Shortly after American-born Robert Prevost was elected Pope, J.D. Vance and his wife stopped in to visit with the new pontiff. In addition to a Chicago Bears shirt, Vance brought the American Pope two books by St. Augustine. This gift represented a... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2025 | 217 |
| Small victories- Starbucks pays up, minimum wage to address housing, challenge to a turncoat, +... www.levernews.com/… Hopefully, just the beginning… Largest worker protection settlement in NYC NYC’s Department of Consumer & Worker Protection has ordered Starbucks to pay roughly $35 million to 15,000 + workers for denying workers stable work... |
Robpos | 12/06/2025 | 3 |
| The “Art-of-the-Deal” Foreign Policy: Trump's Extraction-First Strategy A Strategy for the Bosses The newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (NS), far from being a sober blueprint for safeguarding American interests, reads like a corporate memo: “What can the world deliver us, and how much can we take?” Under the... |
Shawn510 | 12/06/2025 | 14 |
| Samantha Fulnecky is the Riley Gaines of Charlie Kirks A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 98 |
| ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.1059 Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be starting a new painting. It is a Grand Canyon scene. The photo that I'm using (My own from a recent visit.) is seen directly below.
I'll be ... |
boran2 | 12/06/2025 | 2 |
| Tacky assisted living... when will Vance get TF off the couch and seek 25th Amendment solutions? Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 41 |
| Dickens and the Common Good Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the... |
otter54 | 12/02/2025 | 3 |
| Poetry of Dorothy Parker. Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page. |
A Pagan in Arizona | 12/02/2025 | 20 |
| Randy Rainbow takes on RFK Jr. Parody of “Cabaret” (Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb)Parody Lyrics by Randy RainbowSong Produced, Orchestrated, Mixed, Mastered by: Michael J Moritz Jr @michaeljmoritz There is an ad for Ground news, sorry. |
alamancedem | 12/02/2025 | 11 |
| 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 |
| Trump's EPA Just Approved What??? There are harmful administrative decisions that have immediate but reversable negative consequences. But what of decisions that are reversable in policy only – those whose effects will almost ... |
announ | 12/02/2025 | 116 |
| New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh? |
The Marti | 12/02/2025 | 147 |
| 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 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Why Latin America and why now? We begin today with� Greg Sargent �of The New Republic and his many doubt about the Congressional Republicans willingness to investigate the Caribbean boat strikes.
To be sure, this does look like ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/02/2025 | 331 |
| 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 |
| Morning Open thread Tuesday December 2, songs with a female's name in the title Welcome to � Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ... |
Ozarkblue | 12/02/2025 | 142 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 179 | ZenTrainer | 12/01/2025 | 42 |
| IAN: My Very Long Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl. |
bigjacbigjacbigjac | 12/01/2025 | 24 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun dig for buried ... |
strawbale | 12/01/2025 | 18 |
| 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 |
| Mutual Aid or as I say Community Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of... |
Smurf | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| Street Prophets Open Thread This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today is a simple open thread. I’m away from my computer all day, so I could use some help in posting the community ... |
linkage | 12/01/2025 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS... |
enhydra lutris | 12/01/2025 | 6 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Listen to our archived episodes: � |
David Waldman | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: The war on woke As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ... |
Tom Tomorrow | 12/01/2025 | 28 |
| My People Used To Be Not White 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 | 105 |
| 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 |
| The 7 Deadly Sins of Facebook: How a Social Network De-evolved Into a Manipulation Machine 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 | 53 |
| 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 |
| KosAbility: What do I write when I have nothing planned? 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 | 27 |
| GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ... |
kos | 11/30/2025 | 232 |
| Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour: The Mind of an Artist 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 | 3 |
| 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 |
| Marine Toys For Tots. It's That Time. Need A Toy? Get A Toy. Or, Give A Toy. 💚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 | 3 |
| 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 |
| Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81 Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you� |
Denise Oliver Velez | 11/30/2025 | 135 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Of Venezuela, AI, and...Duke? 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 | 355 |
| Sunday Morning Open Thread with Music by Franz Schubert 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 | 41 |