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| 🕎✡️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 |
| Why is it that the left is so frightened of modern monetary theory (MMT)? Because of INFLATION!!! Countries that supply money based on how the economy creates it are less likely to put an oversupply of money into the economy and cause inflation. The way the United States puts money into the economy is through distributing... |
joelado | 12/04/2025 | 29 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| JD Vance invites attendees to a VP Hanukkah observance to celebrate"50 Years of Christmas" In 2008, the Bush administration had to apologize when the White House Hanukkah party invitation featured a Christmas tree. The Trump administration scoffs at that slur as small potatoes. It is now metaphorically saying, "Hold my beer." To hell with a... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/04/2025 | 14 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: 'We can't leave Ukraine alone with these guys' A Ukrainian drone takes out a Russian Mig-29 at a Crimean airfield. Behind the scenes European leader have had their fill of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Incompetents. They need to start saying some of these things publicly. Maybe Ukraine could... |
quaoar | 12/04/2025 | 91 |
| Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to... |
Mokurai | 12/04/2025 | 98 |
| 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 |
| Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| "I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 93 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?" US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 33 |
| Election News Digest: December 3 DeSantis Will Call for Special Legislative Session on Congressional Redistricting TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his intention to call a special legislative session on congressional redistricting in the spring of 2026 during an... |
cbastian | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Mike Lindell throws his pillow into the ring..... Minnesota Public Radio reports that Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and rabid pro-Trump election denier has filed to run in the Republican Primary for Governor of Minnesota against Tim Walz. He’ll first have to defeat a large Republican field consisting... |
cbastian | 12/03/2025 | 25 |
| 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 |
| Pentagon IG says Hegseth shared CLASSIFIED information on a commercial app from his personal phone Hegseth shared classified information On Tuesday, sources revealed that an investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General had determined that Pete Hegseth had shared CLASSIFIED military information on a commercial messaging app. This contradicts the... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/03/2025 | 37 |
| Wednesday Woozles: A Few Humpday Chuckles Good day, Peeps. How’s December treating you? Are your pets doing okay?
A gentle reminder of how we do things: �
Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, |
Ice Blue | 12/03/2025 | 105 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets a refinery in Tambov Ukraine struck the oil refinery in the Tambov region, which is about 420 km southeast of Moscow. A section of the Druzhba pipeline was destroyed by Ukraine. Russia hit this church in Kostiantynivka. All those fiber-optic cables laying around came in... |
quaoar | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| "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 |
| Diabetes News: Medicare Price Cuts for Diabetes, Other Drugs Medicare has just added another 15 drugs to the Medicare Maximum Fair Prices (MFPs) for prices that will take effect on January 1, 2027. The negotiations for these price cuts began under President ... |
Mokurai | 12/03/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Election News Digest: December 2 Mandela Barnes jumps into crowded race for Wisconsin governor Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes launched his bid to replace retiring Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, joining an already crowded and competitive Democratic primary. Barnes, who lost a... |
cbastian | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| It's Neck and Neck in Tennessee 7 With 58% of the vote counted, Republican Matt Van Epps leads Democrat Aftyn Behn by 0.74% (47,288 to 46,585) Election Results: www.nytimes.com/... |
cbastian | 12/02/2025 | 21 |
| Proving "States' Rights" is just code for bigotry, TN embraces federal law to censor books In September, TN Secretary of State Tre Hargett sent letters to the state's public libraries ordering them to review their children's books for LGBTQ themes or characters. His benchmark? Content the Trump administration deems harmful to kids. Tre ain't... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/02/2025 | 8 |
| Cartoon: Fixed it A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete ... |
Clay Bennett | 12/02/2025 | 25 |