| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
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| Florida Canvass Wrapup Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] basically ended the year like it began —�knocking on doors for another special ... |
snowbored | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| California Canvass Wrapup: Resisting Trump's hostile takeover of our Democracy Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � circumvent� president felon’s hostile takeover of our Democracy.� It’s ... |
snowbored | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| #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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today! Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic... |
Brainwrap | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media President Donald Trump has long been all for bullying and demeaning the media and individual reporters, but since taking office it has become an administration-wide affair.
In its latest attack on ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/02/2025 | 35 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after... |
justiceputnam | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Arizona Canvass Wrapup: Sure, there's no Climate Change... SMH
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � Arizona initially because of Presidential and Senate elections.� But we ... |
snowbored | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, River City Hash Mondays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � River City Hash Mondays!
... |
justiceputnam | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Blue26.org November 2025 Fundraising update: $17.4K for the month, $541K for the cycle We're now past the halfway mark of the 2025-2026 election cycle. So far I've raised 4.3x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and 2.5x as much as I had at this point 2 years ago! In November 2025 specifically, I raised nearly... |
Brainwrap | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 29 times Fox News made us cringe in disgust this year President Donald Trump is attached at the hip to Fox News, the right-wing propaganda network. The relationship goes back more than a decade, when Fox held a regular commentary slot open for Trump to ... |
Oliver Willis | 11/30/2025 | 15 |
| SHEESH! Trump's White House Website Now Has a Page to Attack Media that Tells the Truth About Him Presidents throughout history have had some rocky relationships with the free press. It's a natural conflict given the media's mission to report truthfully about everything that a political leader does and says, and the leader's determination to always... |
News Corpse | 11/30/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| Dawn Chorus: Lanius of Arabia - Act II When we last left our intrepid hero, he was crossing the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. However, unlike his pseudo-namesake, Lawrence of Arabia, who crossed the Nefud on a camel (at least according to the movie), our hero did it on Saudia Airlines…and... |
laniusX | 11/30/2025 | 83 |
| 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 |