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| 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 |
| Morning Open Thread: Witch Burning - Mozart Dies - Joan Didion - AFL-CIO - Global Carbon Emissions ______________________________________________________ “The planet is sending warnings in the form of storms, heat, and extreme weather events. Our choice is to act or to be acted upon.” ― Victor Manan Nyambala Kenyan Supply Chain Expert... |
officebss | 12/05/2025 | 41 |
| 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 |
| IVH: Television / Marquee Moon
Tonight’s selections from Television’s debut album, Marquee Moon . Originally published May 2022.
They came, rewrote the book on guitar rock and then split up, leaving only a pair of seminal ... |
Al Dorado | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of... |
KeithDB | 12/04/2025 | 148 |
| 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 |
| Trump's $2000 "Legal" Bribery Check Here is a quick poem that came to me this morning, when I should have been doing serious work… Trump's $2000 "Legal" Bribery Check Will I take your $2000 bribery check, sure, it's just a refund on my sales taxes from your tariff tyranny, who cares... |
Paul Frea | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| Morning Open Thread Thursday December 4, theme: Naughty songs 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 | 12/04/2025 | 63 |
| IAN: Thursday 12/4/2025 Just a little news... This was a better day for us.� The post op check with his GP went well.� He worked in the garden in the afternoon and I did a door prize DIY after meeting with Margie.� She has taken over the game ... |
art ah zen | 12/03/2025 | 31 |
| Steve Cropper, musician, 1941-2025 Steven Lee Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. You may not know his name, but you know his sound, from Dock on the Bay (which he co-wrote with Otis... |
Rambler797 | 12/03/2025 | 72 |
| 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 |
| Community Needs List: Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour’s Helping Humpday, where people wanting to lend a hand can connect with community members in need. Have a cuppa and join us. |
Aashirs nani | 12/03/2025 | 8 |
| "We ended eight wars… I should get the Nobel prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy." “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.” Trump boasted Tuesday of ending eight wars during his administration, citing examples like a quick ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May after a... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| The 5,000-year-old hack that could cut your sick days by 20% A longer, well-referenced version of this post with graphs and illustrations was posted yesterday on my site Examined. Here is the 1000 word version! I hope it helps you :) ~ Nasal saline irrigation might be one of medicine's most underappreciated... |
Examined | 12/03/2025 | 153 |
| Bone Spurs on the ground, hitting Venezuelan drug cartels and hoping for spillage onto US soil Less blowback than attacking Mexican cartels, but will it spill into regime change for Maduro. New US strikes will offset the September boat killing snafus, because the Trump administration is all about incompetent misdirection. Unfortunately, actual... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 10 |
| Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ... |
Toro Blanco | 12/03/2025 | 21 |
| Morning Open Thread: New Wave Music Some gems of the New Wave. Please include your own favorites in the comments. Brian Eno & David Byrne, “America Is Waiting” x ... |
Youffraita | 12/03/2025 | 62 |
| Hegseth fade - Phase 1: Sink the boat. Phase 2: Eliminate the threat. Phase 3: Profit (or prison) While Hegseth should also be on trial for this, Admiral Bradley could have refused that order if he believed it to be illegal. The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes. Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| "1/6th of people in the US are foreign born. That is not sustainable for our culture" Who sez? Racial Xenophobia and the GOP are not sustainable in 2026, even as one Florida representative favors the “remigration” trope supporting deportation of naturalized citizens. Florida district 3 Representative Kat Cammarck (R-FL): "1/6th of people in the... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 16 |
| Lindsey Graham demands the Pope get on the right side of... Venezuelan boat people? Doubling down to divert attention from those ‘kill them all’ orders from 2 September, since no one seems to have been there during the ‘second strike’ off Venezuela. As a student of Trump’s rhetoric, this is by far the most overtly racist, dehumanizing... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,383: Trump's 'plan' sells out Ukraine, Europe, and American leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the US-Ukrainian peace proposal during his meeting with a US delegation in Moscow on December 2 and remains highly unlikely to accept any compromises short of his original war goals. Because Trump’s plans are... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 57 |
| IAN 12/3/25 - Music for Stargazing, Meditation, and Prayer - Part I For todayâs music therapy, some simply beautiful poetry and compositions for contemplating the night sky, nature, and inward peace, for all religions, pagans, agnostics, and atheists: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 |
Tippy and Dad | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026 How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald... |
kos | 12/02/2025 | 339 |
| DVD review: The Accountant 2 Did you know that there’s a whole wiki devoted to cataloguing firearms seen in movies and TV shows? I found it because I was looking to verify my assertion that there are multiple rifles reloaded in The Accountant 2. It’s one of those questions you... |
Alonso del Arte | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| Is an “AI” Really “Intelligent”? Don’t get me wrong. After some hesitation, I’ve taken to AI as a duck takes to water. I seldom use “normal” online searches anymore. Most “normal” online search results now appear in the order for which for-profit providers of goods or services have... |
dratler | 12/02/2025 | 83 |
| Calls for Trump to Send in the Troops to Storm a Colorado State Prison Tina Peters is the one-time Mesa County (CO) clerk who was convicted in August 2024 on three counts of attempting to influence a public official; conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation; official misconduct; violation of duty; and failure to comply... |
Dan K | 12/02/2025 | 75 |
| 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 |
| Hegseth claims he didn't see the "second strike" because of the 'Gaslight of War' There was the usual cabinet meeting today, where the occasion was used as a press opportunity. In this instance, ‘narco-terrorist’ remains a misnomer, the 2 September mission’s Target Engagement Authority (TEA) was the SecDef, and both Trump and... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 70 |
| #RogueAutoPen strikes: "Stop me before I do absurd things again!" Trump's 150 manic posts last night Epstein distractions continue now with oldies-but-goodies meant to keep the MAGAs in line, considering his murdering screw-ups and deflections from Epstein. The well is drying up, even as he continues his lethal scamming. The unhingery of 150 posts in... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 18 |
| 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 |
| For SecWar Hegseth, Signalgate was nothing compared to Admiral Bradley pushed in front of... Will Admiral Bradley get keelhauled with a steam catapult? IT’S STILL HEGSETH’S ORDERS and the WHITE HOUSE gets its firewall. Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 130 |
| The White House Vulvacollum* is still about Epstein (and scandal) The end of civilization appears on the horizon in decades of the usual scams mostly vaporware globally applied. For example, if you don’t have a REAL-ID or its equivalent you might not be able to travel, and even if you are, it’ll cost you $45 USD. In... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DOD's Own Manual Uses Firing on Shipwrecked People as an EXAMPLE of an Illegal Order The Department of Defense [sic] maintains a manual on the Law of War, last updated in July 2023. The foreword opens with these words: The law of war is of fundamental importance to the Armed Forces of the United States. The law of war is part of who we... |
Dan K | 12/01/2025 | 14 |
| 'Imperial Blowback' or PTSD? DC shooter part of CIA death squad in Afghanistan? Too soon to tell. The GOP and the White House may be hoping Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a Marinus van der Lubbe? Too soon to tell, as long as he’s not dead, because the ICE cosplay death squads need their continuing anonymity in the service of mass deportation and migration... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 14 |
| Hegseth fired JAG officers because they can't handle the truth: War Crime or Murder on the high seas Was it a traditional wooden Trini fishing boat, not even a “go-fast” boat? So video of strike #1 used for propaganda is unclassified but video of strike #2 is classified? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 128 |
| Why stop there? Free Felicidad Noriega's hubby. Oh wait, he's dead, Jaime. 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| IAN: Stuff & Nonsense 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 | 44 |
| Pardoning ex-Presidente Jefe because 400 tons of trafficked drugs isn't like trafficking children 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 | 36 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Making the National Guard into Mall Cops, gardeners. Trump goes fuzzy, calling reporters 'stupid' 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 | 37 |