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| 4 Republican states will help Homeland Security obtain driver’s license records Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio agreed to aid the Trump administration as part of a legal settlement.
By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline
Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump ... |
Stateline | 12/06/2025 | 21 |
| Clips of the week: Mark Kelly hits back at Hegseth, and Trump's drug price doozy President Donald Trump’s billionaire-focused economy is not improving, the Epstein files are not disappearing, and every distraction the administration throws out is meeting far more scrutiny and ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| Should we be panicking about birthright citizenship or not? The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/06/2025 | 318 |
| The Daily Bucket. Various valley fare. Fabulous Ferruginous. American Valley, Quincy, CA. Friday, Dec. 5, 2025
Quincy, CA
The afternoon was approaching 2:00 p.m.� Temperature had climbed all the way up to a sizzling 49 oF.� Bundle up, hop on the e-bike, go out “Hawk Alley”, see what�� |
funningforrest | 12/06/2025 | 24 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: A MAGA dilemma A cartoon by David Horsey.
Related |� Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message ... |
David Horsey | 12/06/2025 | 20 |
| Overnight News Digest 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, JeremyBloom, and doomandgloom. Alumni editors include (but not... |
annetteboardman | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| Top Comments: Open Thread
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: RV life ahead, maybe, or just getting an apartment. 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 ... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 49 |
| Trump administration approves plan to export more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish populations and Delta and tribal communities in... |
Dan Bacher | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message flops Republicans are in disarray as they begin to realize that they may lose the House in ... |
Emily Singer | 12/05/2025 | 95 |
| The World Cup sucks up to Trump, and it sucks Remember when we learned in 2018 that the United States would host the 2026 World Cup along with Mexico and Canada? Back then, it seemed like an amazing opportunity to be part of an inherently ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/05/2025 | 156 |
| Cartoon: Leaked MRIs Support � my � Patreon � for early access and exclusives. Follow me on � Mastodon ,� ... |
BrianMcFadden | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| The 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine is more about Teddy Roosevelt Sadly, Trump’s viewing of the Sicario movie sequel has not left his lizard brain. He confuses movies and reality. and he’s lazy Remember when he ordered the pardoning of J6 insurrectionists en masse because he simply got tired of looking at individual... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 4 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
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 ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2025 | 172 |
| Trump’s revenge plot unravels as another grand jury shuts him down President Donald Trump’s plans for revenge against his political enemies were disrupted yet again on Thursday after a grand jury declined to pursue charges against New York Attorney General ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 46 |
| Street Prophets Friday: Castle Malbork, Poland, Part II (open thread/photo diary) Greetings and welcome to another wee bit of open-threaded fluff. This week I'll be continuing my series of diaries featuring photos from my Summer trip to Poland with part two of my tour of Castle ... |
Marko the Werelynx | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| The Recap: Trump’s ballroom breakup, and Kash Patel’s reported FBI taxi service A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump releases racist blueprint for the world The “great replacement” theory is now getting echoed in national policy. Out of step: Trump... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| FBI agents now reportedly acting as Kash Patel’s personal Uber FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under scrutiny for allegedly bending the bureau’s resources to support his personal life, this time involving his girlfriend’s social outings.
According ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/05/2025 | 50 |
| Cartoon: I'm with stupid A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Jack Ohman | 12/05/2025 | 16 |
| Trump finally gets his ‘peace prize’ President Donald Trump received a made-up peace prize from the International Federation of Association Football ahead of the 2026 World Cup, ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/05/2025 | 126 |
| Trump releases racist blueprint for the world The Trump administration released its “ National Security Strategy ”� on Thursday night, but the document reads more like a manifesto advocating for white supremacy than a supposed national ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| Watch 'wartime' House speaker drop some baffling bullsh-t Mike Johnson branded himself a “wartime” speaker of the House during a Friday appearance on Fox Business. He also claimed he and President Donald Trump work nearly every hour in the day�doing ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/05/2025 | 97 |
| 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 |
| Texas Canvass Wrapup
Our final state wrapup�for the year. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to �Texas in 2021, but skipped a year because of the existing organizing groups in the state.� Turned out� |
snowbored | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ... |
Emily Singer | 12/05/2025 | 47 |
| Cartoon: Under the rug A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/05/2025 | 22 |
| Musings for Friday - Belle of the Ranch. A Voice of Clarity I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much given up watching any network news. I record Rachel, and occasionally watch Lawrence and maybe catch 30 minutes of Nicole out of her two hour show. So where do I stay informed? Multiple platforms and... |
TexDem | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| Out of step: Trump breaks up with his ballroom architect President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo.
McCrery Architects, you’re fired. |
Lisa Needham | 12/05/2025 | 190 |
| New Day CAfé: In the Soup Does the weather have you craving soup? It does me. Here are some that look tasty.
Greek Beef & Barley Soup
Recipe. �[3:46]
... |
Youffraita | 12/05/2025 | 165 |
| The Daily Bucket: English Boom This Bucket takes you on a short walk we did a couple weeks ago on the northern tip of Camano Island. We’d had several days of rain, more like� gray skies with on and off�showers. On a forecasted ... |
BrownsBay | 12/05/2025 | 32 |
| Sean Duffy faces pajama protest after playing fashion police Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party.
After the transportation secretary told people to “ dress up ” at the airport as a way to make air travel better ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/05/2025 | 109 |
| How bad is the video of strike two? Will the 2026 election be GOP's strike three Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 50 |
| Overnight News Digest Dec. 4, 2025, Oops I forgot top put it in the Q I finished the benches tonight! 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,... |
eeff | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 182 Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection. |
belinda ridgewood | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 5th, 2025 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 | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| IAN: December 5, 2025: Brain Break 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 ... |
FloridaSNMOM | 12/04/2025 | 46 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,385: Putin’s original war aims continue, despite the Alaska misadventure Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 3 to 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea and... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| Top Comments: A Walk in the Woods edition 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 ... |
Ed Tracey | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built. 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... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 195 |
| For-profit college education encourages cheating, hurts academic integrity A 2020 study by the International Center for Academic Integrity found that large minorities of college students are cheating. I’m not surprised: our system of for-profit education gives students, professors, and administrators every incentive to cheat... |
Matthew Adarichev | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| The Worst Murder Ever Committed by Republicans. It took almost 80 years, but the Republicans have done it. They have killed trust. Trust in Institutions. Trust in Truth. Trust in Competence and Ability. Today the FBI made an arrest in the “January 6 Bomber” case. Immediately all the cynical comments... |
zenbassoon | 12/04/2025 | 16 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Ohio Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ... |
snowbored | 12/04/2025 | 3 |
| Happy Birthday to the Greatest Station in the Nation Forty-five years ago today, WWOZ went on the air at 90.7 FM, dedicated to promoting the music and culture of New Orleans. Initially the dream of brothers Walter and Jerry Brock (Jerry was also a co-founder of the Louisiana Music Factory store), the... |
Crashing Vor | 12/04/2025 | 10 |
| New Day Cafe - Fun With Street View Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ... |
foresterbob | 12/04/2025 | 174 |
| Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181 | ZenTrainer | 12/04/2025 | 29 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 4th, 2025 - Throwback Thursday 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 | 12/04/2025 | 10 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?" US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 33 |