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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
Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary)
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 4
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
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
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
Q: What's wrong with Janet Mills to replace Susan Collins?
www.levernews.com/… A: It depends on what’s more important to you. Do you want a Senator that’s good on social issues or one that good on labor and kitchen table issues? Judging from her record as Governor of Maine, you can’t have both with her. In...
Robpos 12/03/2025 64
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
Trump’s Popularity: A 4-Week Snapshot — November 2025
You must be a republican if you believe that: Public schools are an unnecessary government expense but prisons are not. A minimum wage is a governmental intrusion in the private market but the oil depletion allowance for corporations to drill for oil...
Trenz Pruca 12/02/2025 1
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
Dickens and the Common Good
Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
otter54 12/02/2025 3
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
How to fix the Electoral College
As you probably know, Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but became President due to the Electoral College. As you probably also know, Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, but became President due to the Electoral College. There is a way to fix the...
tedfuller 12/02/2025 29
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
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
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
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
Krugman's explanation for Trump's pardon of the former Honduran president needs prime time attention
This past Friday, Trump announced he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in March 2024 was convicted by a U.S. jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import massive amounts of cocaine into the...
RETIII 12/01/2025 204
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
Trump rushes to rescue GOP in surprisingly tight special election
President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps on Monday, calling into a Nashville rally for the special election that has grown uncomfortably tight for the GOP. “The whole world is watching Tennessee...
Alex Samuels 12/01/2025 67
Cartoon: Obey my odors! The turkey hates turkey!
Check out all the Pinocchio Trump cartoons: www.youtube.com/...
PresidentOso 12/01/2025 7