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Morning Open Thread: Witch Burning - Mozart Dies - Joan Didion - AFL-CIO - Global Carbon Emissions
______________________________________________________ “The planet is sending warnings in the form of storms, heat, and extreme weather events. Our choice is to act or to be acted upon.” ― Victor Manan Nyambala Kenyan Supply Chain Expert...
officebss 12/05/2025 41
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Parrots Are Great
shower ...
strawbale 12/04/2025 40
Top Comments: A Walk in the Woods edition
A user-friendly hike with old chums, after-the-jump ... But first : Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are ...
Ed Tracey 12/04/2025 7
Write On! Seasons Writings, or, the Advent of Winter
Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...
dconrad 12/04/2025 56
Write-On Weekly Fiction Works in Progress (WIP) diary: A Busyness of Ferrets (DaKoWriMo)
Welcome to the Weekly Fiction WIP Thread! � This is a weekly community diary for writers here on Daily Kos to showcase microfiction, ongoing serialized stories, and pieces of larger works in ...
sagesource 12/04/2025 26
THE TRUMP REGIME Wants to Take America Back - To the 1970s So They Can Buy Crappy Cars and Stuff
One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the...
News Corpse 12/04/2025 26
The village of Mammoth Hot Springs
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 16
Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Thursday, December 4, 2025
Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman and Greg Dworkin did it again! For a couple of hours today. The U.S. Institute of Peace has been renamed as the U.S....
Scott Anderson 12/04/2025 1
PWB peeps ~ it's cold out there!
Welcome to this afternoon’s PWB diary! Glad to have you join us for a few minutes of relaxing. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate it. So loosen your tie ( ...
mayim 12/04/2025 63
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thurs Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after calling Trump out at a stop in New York, California...
justiceputnam 12/04/2025 1
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
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
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman 12/04/2025 1
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
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181
ZenTrainer 12/04/2025 29
Overnight News Digest: December 3, 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 12/03/2025 15
PWB Kitties Love Shopping
Kitties are ready to do some shopping… But first, the rules… You are all welcome to join us! Here are few not-too-onerous PWB rules Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries,
mamajo2k 12/03/2025 32
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
Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * On today’s KITM, David Waldman tells it like it is. Today, Greg Dworkin also tells it like it is, at the same time! Donald K. Trump...
Scott Anderson 12/03/2025 1
A CALL TO ACTION: The Trump White House Launches a 'Media Bias Offender Tipline' - Let's Use It!
The battle against biased media is a continuing and exhausting ordeal during the administration of Donald Trump, who frequently refers to the press in Stalinist terms as "the enemy of the people." No American president has been more hostile toward the...
News Corpse 12/03/2025 27
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
From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump Accounts”: Exposing Power and Defending Democracy
A president fuels hate, billionaires seed “Trump Accounts,” Congress moves to block a Venezuela war, and Van Hollen calls for Medicare for All. A sweeping look at power, justice, and democratic resistance. From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump...
Egberto Willies 12/03/2025 1
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
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
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
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
Listen to our archived episodes: �
David Waldman 12/03/2025 1
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
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
Overnight News Digest December 2, 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 �...
Chitown Kev 12/02/2025 14
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Wonderful Animals
strawbale 12/02/2025 24
Nonfiction Views: Franklin the Turtle vs Hegseth, plus the week's notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. A little late posting this evening. This afternoon we had to say goodbye to out sweet kitty Charlie Brown. He was a wonderful companion, and we will miss him. There have been dozens of musicians who have pushed back and even...
DebtorsPrison 12/02/2025 12
Contemporary Fiction Views: A newly translated Olga Tokarczuk work to savor
This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ...
bookgirl 12/02/2025 10
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
DEMENTIA J. TRUMP Says Affordability is a Scam. And Also that He is the Affordability President?
It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the meandering mental mania that emanates from the mind of Donald Trump. Anyone observing his increasingly deranged behavior has to be concerned about the risk of harm that he is capable of to the...
News Corpse 12/02/2025 15
Kagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman knows all, reveals about two hours' worth, on today’s KITM. Is Pete Hegseth more sober, or less, today? Pete has Donald...
Scott Anderson 12/02/2025 1
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
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
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
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/02/2025 73
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 179
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 42
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 12.1.25
�I pay my electric and gas bills with a budget program called the Equal Payment Plan (EPP).� After a year of service, the companies�average out your monthly payments. I’ve done this for years and ...
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 102
YUCK! Pete Hegseth's Disgusting, Bloodthirsty, 'Christmas Wish' Will Nauseate You
As the American people recover from their Thanksgiving feasts, Donald Trump and his Republican MAGA cult in Washington are demonstrating their ability to sink lower in morality, legality, and even holiday spirit, than anyone previously thought...
News Corpse 12/01/2025 23
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
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
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