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| 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 |
| Photo Diary: A Walk at Sunken Gardens Sunken Gardens in St Pete FL is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon. They are always rotating plants in and out, so there is something blooming at every time of year. I come here at ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ohio Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ... |
snowbored | 12/04/2025 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s strange. I take long walks to keep this 81-year-old body of mine in some kind of half-decent shape, and the truth is that you... |
TomDispatch | 12/04/2025 | 2 |
| New Day Cafe - Fun With Street View Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ... |
foresterbob | 12/04/2025 | 174 |
| Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug—When they came, did you speak up? Not me. Two-Week Black-Friday Sale on signed Tom the Dancing Bug books! Get your loved ones a Holiday Six-Pak or a Super Fun Two-Pak! Info here . Please join the team that makes it possible for your ... |
RubenBolling | 12/04/2025 | 30 |
| Origami How To: open box AKA masu This is the 3rd 4th in a series. The first two three were: Origami therapy. Part 1 Origami II Origami Basics I threatened to do a series of origami posts and by gum I’m gonna. i think it’s magical to take a 2 dimensional sheet of paper and watch it... |
RandomNeuron | 12/03/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: The Benefit of Colorblindness This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. They all so two people - BOB, a white guy with glasses, and JOE, a Black guy wearing a tan zip jacket - talking as they walk on a suburban sidewalk. PANEL 1... |
Barry Deutsch | 12/03/2025 | 6 |
| '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 |
| I Have an Axe to Grind || Commentary One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of... |
ReasonaBill | 12/03/2025 | 80 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A Little Google Fail - With Music Time was you could type an equation into Das Gurgle and get and answer. Now, I haven’t done that in a long time since my iphone calculator is fine for my needs. But I decided on a whim to use the GoGoGoggle bar, and what I got was — not an answer.... |
dadadata | 12/03/2025 | 8 |
| 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 |
| Ayanna Pressley will not join the Primary race against Massachusetts Senator Markey. From the Globe Of interest to folks here in the commonwealth, and to progressives elsewhere interested in the status of a primary against a progressive Senator which might have included a third, progressive, candidate…. It won’t. For those who haven’t been following... |
RandomNeuron | 12/03/2025 | 22 |
| 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 |
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keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| ‘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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |