| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump's Wrecking-Ball Administration The demolition of the East Wing of the White House is symbolic of Trump’s impact on America. Our political climate, our democracy, and our moral standing in the world have all suffered crippling body blows. One way to measure the damage Trump has... |
TheSicilian | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Poetry of Dorothy Parker. Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page. |
A Pagan in Arizona | 12/02/2025 | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh? |
The Marti | 12/02/2025 | 147 |
| The USA has a new face - and it’s awful. I remember the many WW2 films where the pure evil of the German enemy was characterized by showing Germans machine-gunning survivors of torpedoed ships, etc. Who would have thought America would one day take over this role of being shockingly cruel and... |
lenfos | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 2nd, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/02/2025 | 11 |
| IAN: My Very Long Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl. |
bigjacbigjacbigjac | 12/01/2025 | 24 |
| Overnight News Digest: Who has access to footage of Flock surveillance cameras? Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI Wired An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to ... |
maggiejean | 12/01/2025 | 21 |
| Top Comments: Seasonal 2025 Part I (Marking Time Til The Holiday) Edition It’s the most wonderful time of the year! OK, maybe not THE most, but it IS time for my annual seasonally-themed diaries. It’s been a tradition �since 2010, with topics ranging from music to ... |
brillig | 12/01/2025 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ho, Ho, Ho! It finally feels like Winter. A Colorado State Open Thread, December 1, 2025 When I get to stand in for the Jolly Old Elf himself, I do what I can to make everyone feel happy, welcome and special, no matter how they might otherwise be feeling in this hustle-bustle holiday world. I think I mostly succeed, but there are some kids... |
ColoTim | 12/01/2025 | 6 |
| No One Should Be Shocked:
Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been... |
bison | 12/01/2025 | 29 |
| Mutual Aid or as I say Community Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of... |
Smurf | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Pete Hegseth: Secretary of War Crimes The Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has violated the law again. First, it was his dissemination of war plans to his social media friend group. Not satisfied with endangering American servicepeople by revealing their missions, he is now, allegedly, a... |
ReasonaBill | 12/01/2025 | 6 |
| Why Dems Can Ill Afford to Share "Affordability" With Trump's Cult Affordability. Granted, that 6-syllable juggernaut amounts to a polite way of broaching the human costs of decades of governance of/by/for the have-mores. But still. At least the term resonates with countless GOP-ravaged (and potentially enraged)... |
Inspector Clueso | 12/01/2025 | 3 |
| Trump literally phones in rally appearance During a Monday rally for Republican Matt Van Epps, whose Tennessee spe cial election is on Tuesday, House ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/01/2025 | 70 |
| 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 |
| Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Is Impressive I saw Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear address a Nebraska Democratic Party fundraiser on November 7. I was very impressed with what I saw and heard. Beshear’s superb remarks were interrupted numerous times by applause. He is a rare political talent. I... |
NebraskaDemocrat | 12/01/2025 | 25 |
| Arizona Canvass Wrapup: Sure, there's no Climate Change... SMH
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � Arizona initially because of Presidential and Senate elections.� But we ... |
snowbored | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| Time to Stop Worshipping the Constitution � � �The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford , which held that African Americans, ... |
Matthew D Jones | 12/01/2025 | 24 |