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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related |� Two National Guard troops shot in ambush attack just blocks from the White ...

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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 ...

Racial Xenophobia and the GOP are not sustainable in 2026, even as one Florida representative favors the “remigration” trope supporting deportation of naturalized citizens. Florida district 3 Representative Kat Cammarck (R-FL): "1/6th of people in the...

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 �...

Did you know that there’s a whole wiki devoted to cataloguing firearms seen in movies and TV shows? I found it because I was looking to verify my assertion that there are multiple rifles reloaded in The Accountant 2. It’s one of those questions you...

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 ...

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Wayne County, NY — On December 2, 2025, a judge in Wayne County, New York ruled that Wafler Farms, a major apple producer and nursery in upstate New York, must implement the UFW contract it had been refusing to implement for months on end. The long...

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...

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 daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media Journalists and media outlets are being shut out and targeted at record speed. Kristi...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...

After September 2nd, the “kill everybody” policy for alleged drug smugglers who survived boat sinkings was changed. Now they rescue them and let them go free. The Biden policy was to bring them to the US, prosecute them, and jail them if there was...

We begin today with� Greg Sargent �of The New Republic and his many doubt about the Congressional Republicans willingness to investigate the Caribbean boat strikes. To be sure, this does look like ...

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 ...

My father as a Jew and a WWII Veteran would be appalled by the appointment of anyone admitting to a Nazi streak to any government position. And I am as well. Dad fortunately didn’t live to see this and dad was a moderate republican. I think he would be...

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�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 ...

“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...

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...

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 ...

When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...

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...

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