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| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday Just a quick note above the fold: Holy smokes, Batman. Behn’s MAGA opponent only won by a handful of points. In Tennessee. In a Trump +22 district. My, my, my, look at all those shiny blue arrows... No “conservative tears” in our mug this morning.... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/03/2025 | 148 |
| Gaza: The Inverse Hotel California. As the final verse of the song says Last thing I remember I was running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before "Relax," said the night man "We are programmed to receive You can check-out any time you like But you can... |
LaFeminista | 12/03/2025 | 7 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 180 Hello! I’m among those filling in for the intrepid Oz Perspective while he’s indisposed. Here we go! |
belinda ridgewood | 12/02/2025 | 68 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/2/2025: Cliff Notes Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/02/2025 | 89 |
| Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally. “Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post: |
Black Kos | 12/02/2025 | 176 |
| PWB Toosdai Critters: Cult of Chew n'On 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 fur kids! If you have ... |
samanthab | 12/02/2025 | 88 |
| 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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Another Russian tanker attacked in Black Sea A third oil tanker came under attack near the coast of Turkey. Two others were crippled in an earlier strike. Also, a fourth tanker has been slowly sinking off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. An update from the tanker off the coast of Senegal: 2/... |
quaoar | 12/02/2025 | 168 |
| 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 |
| The Daily Bucket: Friendly Seal shore-feeding November 30, 2025 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest The Harbor seals who live in my nearby bays sometimes employ a feeding strategy easily visible from shore. I call it shore-feeding since it depends on proximity to land. The seals are feeding on very... |
OceanDiver | 12/02/2025 | 38 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/02/2025 | 73 |
| 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 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn 'moral clarity' - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow 'peace' talks? Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016. "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 47 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun dig for buried ... |
strawbale | 12/01/2025 | 18 |
| No One Should Be Shocked:
Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been... |
bison | 12/01/2025 | 29 |
| World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum) The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the... |
sfbob | 12/01/2025 | 17 |
| Trump tariffs gut manufacturing as jobs shrink for 9 months straight The Institute for Supply Management released the results on Monday of its most recent survey of the manufacturing industry, revealing a loss of jobs for the ninth month in a row.
The trend under ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/01/2025 | 83 |
| For those grieving the death of a loved one when the world seems to be on fire. “Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high... |
Scott Janssen | 12/01/2025 | 9 |
| 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 |
| PWB Peeps: Moonday Wiff Da Furbutts Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.��
We can haz funz!� All ob uz!
... |
The Marti | 12/01/2025 | 84 |
| The Second Warning When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a... |
sbanks | 12/01/2025 | 247 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes a Russian naval weapons facility Ukraine sent drones to Dagestan to bomb the Dagdiesel torpedo factory on the Caspian Sea. A plethora of drones hitting Russian soldiers. Ukraine strikes a Russian bridge-laying vehicle. There is video of the evacuation of the shadow fleet tanker Kairos... |
quaoar | 12/01/2025 | 95 |
| 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 |
| I told you so, and here are the receipts.
The economic crash was visible from Trump's first days I’m not particularly brilliant. It’s just a simple reading of history that displays what works and what does not. In particular, proven decades ago, the economy operates from the demand side, ... |
DemandSide | 12/01/2025 | 26 |
| Daily Bucket: A Walk at Sawgrass Lake
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/01/2025 | 46 |
| Israel kills two children a day since "ceasefire" began. More war crimes and atrocities, funded and enabled by our tax dollars. From Reuters: The United Nations children's agency said on Friday that at least 67 children have been killed in what it called conflict-related incidents since the ceasefire went... |
scorinaldi | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Listen to our archived episodes: � |
David Waldman | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Time to Stop Worshipping the Constitution � � �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 | 24 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday "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 | 130 |
| Vegan Christmas Feasts
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 | 7 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,381: everywhere and not a drop to drink 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 | 32 |
| Overnight News Digest November 30, 2025
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 | 23 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: It's The Little Things That Count | strawbale | 11/30/2025 | 57 |
| Scouting and the Military - Another Perspective 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 | 22 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sekrit Armee Sundai — Pozt Hawlidai Napz 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 | 85 |
| 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 |
| Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae 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 | 10 |
| The best time to transition was years ago, the second best time is now 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 | 27 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Will selling gold reserves save Russia's economy? 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 | 133 |
| The crudeness and cruelty are reminiscent of another time, another place... 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 | 12 |
| Sleazy Slenderman and the post-war looting of Ukraine is more about oligarchic crony capitalism 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 | 5 |
| Here’s why Latino voters are turning away from Trump We already knew Latino voters were drifting from President Donald Trump, pushed not just by his hard-edged deportation agenda —... |
Alex Samuels | 11/30/2025 | 160 |
| Why Good Mayors Aren’t Enough to Save Social Democracy: Constitutional Civic Realism’s Leash 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 | 6 |
| A History of Murder on the High Seas: The Execution of Captain Heinz Eck 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 | 113 |
| 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 |
| 📚 The Inoculation Project 11/30/2025: Texas Border and Blackfeet Nation 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 | 12 |
| The Elusivity of Kindness. 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 | 9 |
| GNR Sunday ☀️ 67 Good Pips ☀️ 2 Polls: WWtW? + Donate to replace the damage done to the White House? 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 | 97 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,380: a new Kushner-Witkoff grift resembles a 2018 "Marshall Plan" grift 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 | 42 |
| Saturday Top Comments: Breaking Addiction Behaviors 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 | 25 |
| 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 |