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Republicans still spouting bullsh-t about imaginary health care plans
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas appeared on Fox Business Thursday, delivering a nonsensical word salad about the GOP’s health insurance plans— none of which would actually reduce the skyrocketing ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 67
You’ll want to hear Mark Kelly’s latest take on Pete Hegseth
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona isn’t done wiping the floor with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Center for American Progress event in Washington Thursday, Kelly was asked how he ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 84
Minneapolis mayor tells Trump what the real 'garbage' is
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey clapped back to President Donald Trump’s racist tirades against Somali immigrants in his city. Trump has recently taken to slandering Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 28
Did The New York Times just grow a spine?
The New York Times and its veteran intelligence reporter, Julian E. Barnes, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on Thursday, accusing the Defense Department of trampling on reporters’ First Amendment rights through a sweeping new set of reporting...
Alex Samuels 12/04/2025 87
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
Sean Duffy vows to make America smoggy again
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on CNBC on Thursday to defend the White House’s announcement that it would reverse fuel economy standards set during the former Biden administration. ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 114
Cartoon Corner (phoning it in)
Truncated with repeats.� �Quarter’s end, retirement’s ignition, and training my replacement have left the entire staff here at Cartoon Corner exhausted.� It’s ...
ynohtnA 12/04/2025 2
Cheers and Jeers: Thursday
Must-Seethe TV Stephen Colbert, who still has six months to tear into these idiots—and whose show has a good chance of outlasting Captain Cankles and his bloated carcass that short-circuits MRI machines—previews the reboot of a beloved 1960’s comedy......
Bill in Portland Maine 12/04/2025 99
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
Trump doubles down on his latest racist obsession
Apparently unsatisfied with his original racist rant against Somali immigrants, President Donald Trump doubled down on it during a Wednesday press conference in the Oval Office. He launched into a ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 90
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
'Time is out’: Democrat rips GOP’s health care shenanigans
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington excoriated Republicans during a Wednesday Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing.� ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 32
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
Commerce secretary has great excuse for Trump’s gruesome jobs numbers
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on CNBC on Wednesday, where he tried to massage Americans’ growing concerns over the economy. When asked by host Sara Eisen about the godawful jobs ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 83
House speaker can’t keep his house in order
Even by the standards of this year’s rolling political chaos, you’d expect House Republicans to at least try to project unity—if only to pretend their razor-thin majority isn’t hanging by a ...
Alex Samuels 12/03/2025 36
Watch Trump’s treasury secretary get schooled on inflation numbers
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed by Andrew Sorkin Wednesday at The New York Times DealBook Summit. And when Bessent attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s poor inflation ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 71
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
Cartoon: Trump's MRI
Low humor...
Hilmbrown 12/03/2025 7
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
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
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
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
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Wonderful Animals
strawbale 12/02/2025 24
‘I don’t want them in our country,’ Trump says in racist rant
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump launched into a racist rant against Somali immigrants that was reminiscent of his earlier “shithole countries” tirade ...
Walter Einenkel 12/02/2025 111
Minneapolis police chief has a message for Trump's shock troops
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara tried to reassure the city’s immigrant communities during a press conference on Tuesday. Responding to concerns over President Donald Trump’s racist new ...
Walter Einenkel 12/02/2025 68
Trump is cutting drug prices by infinity dollars, apparently
President Donald Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during his Cabinet meeting Tuesday. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims like cutting drug prices by 1,500% , his assessment of ...
Walter Einenkel 12/02/2025 91
Kristi Noem pushes a ‘full travel ban’ in wake of DC shooting
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is seizing on the fatal shooting of a National Guard member in Washington—using the tragedy to push for a sweeping new travel ban that goes well beyond ...
Alex Samuels 12/02/2025 165
House speaker has jaw-dropping defense of Trump's use of slur
House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to cover for Donald Trump after the president called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “ seriously retarded " during a Thanksgiving Day rant online. Johnson was asked about ...
Walter Einenkel 12/02/2025 126
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
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