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| 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 |
| Pam Bondi is pissing off Republicans by dodging Epstein files release A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing on when, exactly, she’s going to get around ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/03/2025 | 75 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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!
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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 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: The listeria league
This comic was inspired by a recent ProPublica analysis that found inspections of overseas food plants had dropped significantly under Trump despite unsanitary conditions found at several facilities. |
Jen Sorensen | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| Cartoon: Trump's MRI Low humor... |
Hilmbrown | 12/03/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Three-Pronged Approach: Getting House Repubs to Declare as Independent, Caucusing With Dems [after reading and perhaps seeing the video links, please participate in the polls at the end of this post] Only a month ago, the premise of the #ImmediateFlipMovement would’ve been naive at best, excessively optimistic. But now we’re on the verge of a... |
ProgToddNorCal | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| PWB Toosdai Critters: Cult of Chew n'On A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦
Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.
Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have ... |
samanthab | 12/02/2025 | 88 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tomgram: William Astore, A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a... |
TomDispatch | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: Couples therapy A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ... |
Mike Luckovich | 12/02/2025 | 16 |
| 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 |
| Morning Open thread Tuesday December 2, songs with a female's name in the title 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 | 12/02/2025 | 142 |
| Cartoon: Obey my odors! The turkey hates turkey! Check out all the Pinocchio Trump cartoons: www.youtube.com/... |
PresidentOso | 12/01/2025 | 7 |
| Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering: The Crisis Uniting Democracy and Gender Justice A deep dive into abortion rights, Venezuela narratives, global manhood reform, and a Trump-Starmer deal that would raise NHS drug prices—democracy is on the line. Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts... |
Egberto Willies | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| PWB Peeps: Moonday Wiff Da Furbutts Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.��
We can haz funz!� All ob uz!
... |
The Marti | 12/01/2025 | 84 |
| At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/01/2025 | 119 |
| Music open thread: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major Ludwig van Beethoven admired leaders of free men, and despised despots. I believe Beethoven would admire Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his brave fight against the Russian incursion, and despise Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin. When... |
Alonso del Arte | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russification of America This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you... |
TomDispatch | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| 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!
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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 |
| 12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS... |
enhydra lutris | 12/01/2025 | 6 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Overnight News Digest November 30, 2025
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ... |
side pocket | 11/30/2025 | 23 |
| 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 |
| Kitchen table Kibitzing November 30, 2025
Sleep
Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ... |
side pocket | 11/30/2025 | 90 |
| 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 |
| Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary) Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ... |
Ojibwa | 11/30/2025 | 2 |
| Museums 501: Sewing machines (photo diary) Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ... |
Ojibwa | 11/30/2025 | 11 |
| 📚 The Inoculation Project 11/30/2025: Texas Border and Blackfeet Nation This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school... |
belinda ridgewood | 11/30/2025 | 12 |
| 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 |
| Overnight News Digest: November 29, 2025 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
FarWestGirl | 11/29/2025 | 20 |