| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartoon: A MAGA dilemma A cartoon by David Horsey.
Related |� Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message ... |
David Horsey | 12/06/2025 | 20 |
| Four Reasons I Am Not Sweating the Supreme Court Texas Decision GNR Before I get to this week’s good news (and there was a lot!) I want to talk about why I am not sweating SCOTUS’s awful decision to let Texas Gerrymandering stand. First, this SCOTUS is terrible and I only expect terrible from it. I keep my mental... |
GoodNewsRoundup | 12/06/2025 | 174 |
| Campaign of terror continues—hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. Based on past abductions like these, authorities presume the ... |
FreedomUnited | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Van Doren The Rivals
Mark Van Doren (1894-1972)
On a night of whirling snow
When every twig and star is dead
There is a house where I can go �
And ... |
strawbale | 12/05/2025 | 15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| PWB Peeps: Krampusnacht! Hi, Peeps! I canât believe weâre already at Krampusnacht. Back when Christmas was separate from SantyKlaus (St. Nick â feast day 12/6), this was the guy who punished the naughty children. Our ... |
CathyM | 12/05/2025 | 55 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Holiday shopping boycott fights Trump with the power of the purse A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ... |
Capital and Main | 12/05/2025 | 44 |
| Cartoon: Dozy Don A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Drew Sheneman | 12/05/2025 | 24 |
| GNR for Friday, December 5, 2025: Hope makes a difference Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ... |
chloris creator | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| 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 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Parrots Are Great
shower ... |
strawbale | 12/04/2025 | 40 |
| More kids are dying—thanks to Trump For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?”
The Gates Foundation issued a ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/04/2025 | 47 |
| 🕎✡️Dmytro Klebanov-1st Symphony In Memoriam To The Martyrs of Babi Yar, Ukraine-US Premiere Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in... |
Tippy and Dad | 12/04/2025 | 35 |
| Photo Diary: A Walk at Sunken Gardens Sunken Gardens in St Pete FL is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon. They are always rotating plants in and out, so there is something blooming at every time of year. I come here at ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| Daily Bucket: Birdwing Grasshoppers
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 | 12/04/2025 | 37 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials, Me tro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!
Starting off in the Bistro C ... |
justiceputnam | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| FBI Arrests Suspect In Case Of Pipe Bombs Planted In D.C. The Night Before Insurrection (Updated x4) UPDATE: Friday, Dec 5, 2025 · 12:54:23 AM +00:00 · PvtJarHead INSIDENOVA D.C. pipe bomb suspect Brian Jerome Cole Jr. lived with his mother in a five-bedroom house outside Dale City and worked as a bail bondsman in a family business. (snip) Cole's... |
PvtJarHead | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| Indians 101: Nobleman and Daughter (museum exhibition) The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ... |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| The Epstein Class: the through line We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with... |
chloris creator | 12/04/2025 | 68 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: Open Thread I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight.
Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 12/03/2025 | 7 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/3/25: Toxic Impunity 42 years ago today was the worst industrial disaster of all time.
….while killing off the ... |
jck | 12/03/2025 | 107 |
| Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ... |
kos | 12/03/2025 | 118 |
| Poor, misunderstood Young Republican: racist, antisemitic, misogynistic messages were just jokes! I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into gas chambers and making virulently antisemitic,... |
Bob Johnson | 12/03/2025 | 253 |
| I Have an Axe to Grind || Commentary One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of... |
ReasonaBill | 12/03/2025 | 80 |
| Like something out of a movie... People keep commenting that the sight of Trump snoozing through his ego-boosting cabinet meeting whilst his underlings compete to see who can slather his crack the most was like something out of an Armando Iannucci film, so I went ahead and made it.... |
Hard Left | 12/03/2025 | 2 |
| Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary) | Ojibwa | 12/03/2025 | 4 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a panicked Trump ordered his MAGA Department of Justice to... |
justiceputnam | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Archival Footage Surfaces Of Pete Hegseth Saying Exactly What They're Condemning Mark Kelly For... That MAGA are a bunch of hypocrites is proven once again... CNN A Fox News contributor who at the time had just left a conservative veterans group, Hegseth was asked to comment about soldiers imprisoned for war crimes. He plainly stated there are costs... |
PvtJarHead | 12/03/2025 | 6 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!
... |
justiceputnam | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Portland Art Museum: Spanish Colonial Art (museum exhibition) The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon held an exhibition, Highest Heaven: Andean Art from the Elvin Duerst Bequest , featuring art from the Spanish viceregal or colonial period from 1521 ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2025 | 2 |
| News the felon and GOP don't want us to see! Dec 3, 2025 edition, with poll In the last month, we have seen significant weakening of the felon and his enablers.
A brief summary of some of the evidence of the increased weakness:
The elections in November proved that. And, |
chloris creator | 12/03/2025 | 36 |
| 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 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 3rd, 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 | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Pardon Me? www.patreon.com/keefknight
Purchase the 2026 Keefie Cartoon Calendar!
Keef on Substack!
Related |� Delirious president goes on ... |
keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BL: If music be the food of Boys' Love, play on My apologies to Shakespeare for shamelessly ripping off his line. You know, I think Will would have appreciated Boys’ Love series. No, I have no idea about his sexuality or anything related to that, but just imagine the incredible stories he could have... |
Krotor | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday Podcast (Audio) Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric... |
justiceputnam | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 8am PT / 11am ET West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Trump... |
justiceputnam | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Oligarchs pissing me off, yet again Once again, something online is driving me nuts. Today it’s an oligarch is making billions off a service, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. In this case it's Meta. It's always one of the top few. Their product Facebook Messenger is... |
LilBoyBlu | 12/01/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| Cartoon: Kill him A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him. |
Clay Jones | 12/01/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: The Universe Is NOT a Computer Simulation Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,... |
gizmo59 | 11/30/2025 | 58 |
| 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 |