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| What are you reading? December 5, 2025
In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…
I am reading:
Obsession: The Life and ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/05/2025 | 32 |
| Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links... |
Mokurai | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| Voter Supression Intimidation Sign Removal, and Police Involvement in East Point, GA Mayoral Race. I’m a Black resident and community advocate in East Point, Georgia. I help feed people in underserved neighborhoods. I never imagined that trying to inform my neighbors... |
miya love | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| Political Landscape as Dems Seek to Avoid the GOP's Year-End Health Care Cliff: 'BradCast' 12/4/2025 Guest: Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein Also: J6 pipe bomber IG slams Hegseth Dems 'disturbed' by boat strike video Grand Jury denies new James indictment SCOTUS allows TX' racial gerrymander... Yikes. Quite a news day. We do our best to keep up on... |
TheBradBlog | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Parrots Are Great
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strawbale | 12/04/2025 | 40 |
| RANT Bombing the shit out of a bunch of small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific to satisfy the blood lust of a demented old man is WRONG! The Senators and Representatives who go along with this are as complicit as the military officers who ordered the... |
Mitch inWWA | 12/04/2025 | 77 |
| Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built. Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 195 |
| 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 |
| Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday, December 4, 2025 WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS... |
Nanny Ogg | 12/04/2025 | 334 |
| More kids are dying—thanks to Trump For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?”
The Gates Foundation issued a ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/04/2025 | 47 |
| Cartoon: Con job president A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ... |
Clay Jones | 12/04/2025 | 15 |
| Mad about the economy? Trump toady says you're just in a bad 'mood' National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was confronted on Fox News, of all places, with polling that shows most Americans have a negative view of the economy and blame it on President ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 82 |
| Supreme Court Grants Stay; Gerrymandered and Racist Texas Maps Are Okay Super bad redistricting news thanks to our lovely Extreme Court this evening. By a 6-3 decision, the racist Texas maps that will cost us between 2 to 5 seats WILL go into effect for 2026. This is a temporary stay until the Extreme Court rules on the... |
bilboteach | 12/04/2025 | 133 |
| Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of... |
KeithDB | 12/04/2025 | 148 |
| In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump.
The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 58 |
| Republicans still spouting bullsh-t about imaginary health care plans GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas appeared on Fox Business Thursday, delivering a nonsensical word salad about the GOP’s health insurance plans— none of which would actually reduce the skyrocketing ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 67 |
| Cartoon: Reasons To Support Trump! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. PANEL 1 A grinning man stands in his living room. MAN: That TV Star billionaire son of a billionaire is an underdog like me! PANEL 2 A woman standing behind a fence gestures at her phone. WOMAN: Trump... |
Barry Deutsch | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Sloth, Incompetence, Hate, Greed, Hubris, Healthcare Cuts, and Food Costs Are Collapsing the GOP When political archaeologists investigate the 2025 collapse of the GOP, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane will be used for a case study into why the Southwest turned blue. Tom Petty wasn’t thinking about Trump and Crane when he wrote Free Fallin’ but its lyrics... |
EricAZ | 12/04/2025 | 8 |
| The Recap: How Hegseth risked soldiers’ lives, and Trump’s latest ‘garbage’ take A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace? When you order a Nobel Peace Prize from Temu. Hegseth could have killed troops with... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| This tech bro hopes Trump's boat bombings will bring big bucks We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/04/2025 | 55 |
| Cartoon: A stab, er, pat on the back A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ... |
Mike Luckovich | 12/04/2025 | 11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| House speaker to struggling Americans: 'Relax' The rising cost of living is squeezing Americans, with polls finding that roughly three-quarters say prices are higher than they were a year ago and that nearly half blame President Donald Trump for ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| 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 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| 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 |
| ICE Employees Spill Tea About the Misfit Toy Applicants Rushed Through Hiring Process by Kristi Noem The Daily Mail has an exclusive on the rampaging incompetence of the hiring process going on at ICE. The nicest thing that can be said about the new applicants at ICE is they are misfit toys. The truth is that most are mentally, morally, and physically... |
Merlin196360 | 12/04/2025 | 137 |
| 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 |
| Did The New York Times just grow a spine? The New York Times and its veteran intelligence reporter, Julian E. Barnes, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on Thursday, accusing the Defense Department of trampling on reporters’ First Amendment rights through a sweeping new set of reporting... |
Alex Samuels | 12/04/2025 | 87 |
| Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/04/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: 'We can't leave Ukraine alone with these guys' A Ukrainian drone takes out a Russian Mig-29 at a Crimean airfield. Behind the scenes European leader have had their fill of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Incompetents. They need to start saying some of these things publicly. Maybe Ukraine could... |
quaoar | 12/04/2025 | 91 |
| Hegseth could have killed troops with Signal chat leak The Department of Defense inspector general’s report on the Signalgate scandal reveals that Secretary of State Pete Hegseth’s actions endangered the lives of American troops by revealing key ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 25 |
| 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 |
| Would You Pee on Trump's Grave? Take the poll Would you pee on Trumps Grave? Take The Poll! |
Noamjunior | 12/04/2025 | 107 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 8am PT/11am ET
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justiceputnam | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace? The United States Institute of Peace has officially been named after President Donald Trump, with the egomaniac’s name now etched into the building.
"This morning, the State Department renamed ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 201 |
| FBI Arrests Suspect In Case Of Pipe Bombs Planted In D.C. The Night Before Insurrection (Updated x4) UPDATE: Friday, Dec 5, 2025 · 12:54:23 AM +00:00 · PvtJarHead INSIDENOVA D.C. pipe bomb suspect Brian Jerome Cole Jr. lived with his mother in a five-bedroom house outside Dale City and worked as a bail bondsman in a family business. (snip) Cole's... |
PvtJarHead | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| 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 |
| Tennessee is best sign yet for Democrats' 2026 hopes Republicans are in a full-on panic following Tuesday's special election in Tennessee's 7th District, after the GOP ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 49 |
| Medicaid work rules exempt the 'medically frail.' Deciding who qualifies is tricky. By � Samantha Liss � and � Sam Whitehead �for KFF
Eliza Brader worries she soon will ... |
KFF | 12/04/2025 | 13 |
| CBC Roundup: Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-1) - "This healthcare crisis is by design." Congressman� Gabe Amo �won the 2023 September Democratic Primary� in an upset, defeating 11 other Democratic candidates�vying to succeed� David Cicilline �in the special election to represent� ... |
lpeacock | 12/04/2025 | 55 |
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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 |
| The Epstein Class: the through line We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with... |
chloris creator | 12/04/2025 | 68 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "We ended eight wars… I should get the Nobel prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy." “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.” Trump boasted Tuesday of ending eight wars during his administration, citing examples like a quick ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May after a... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 8am PT/11am ET
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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 |
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David Waldman | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: The listeria league
This comic was inspired by a recent ProPublica analysis that found inspections of overseas food plants had dropped significantly under Trump despite unsanitary conditions found at several facilities. |
Jen Sorensen | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| Bone Spurs on the ground, hitting Venezuelan drug cartels and hoping for spillage onto US soil Less blowback than attacking Mexican cartels, but will it spill into regime change for Maduro. New US strikes will offset the September boat killing snafus, because the Trump administration is all about incompetent misdirection. Unfortunately, actual... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A weak Mike Johnson attacked by his own leadership team TN-07 comes in strong for Democrats. No upset, not strong enough to overcome a 22 point Trump district with the Republicans winning by single digits, but an excellent showing for Aftyn Behn (D) and an embarrassing one for Matt Van Epps (R). Good news... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/03/2025 | 276 |
| Hegseth fade - Phase 1: Sink the boat. Phase 2: Eliminate the threat. Phase 3: Profit (or prison) While Hegseth should also be on trial for this, Admiral Bradley could have refused that order if he believed it to be illegal. The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes. Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| 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 |
| "1/6th of people in the US are foreign born. That is not sustainable for our culture" Who sez? 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... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 16 |
| Lindsey Graham demands the Pope get on the right side of... Venezuelan boat people? Doubling down to divert attention from those ‘kill them all’ orders from 2 September, since no one seems to have been there during the ‘second strike’ off Venezuela. As a student of Trump’s rhetoric, this is by far the most overtly racist, dehumanizing... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,383: Trump's 'plan' sells out Ukraine, Europe, and American leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the US-Ukrainian peace proposal during his meeting with a US delegation in Moscow on December 2 and remains highly unlikely to accept any compromises short of his original war goals. Because Trump’s plans are... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 57 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Pardon Me? www.patreon.com/keefknight
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keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| #RogueAutoPen strikes: "Stop me before I do absurd things again!" Trump's 150 manic posts last night Epstein distractions continue now with oldies-but-goodies meant to keep the MAGAs in line, considering his murdering screw-ups and deflections from Epstein. The well is drying up, even as he continues his lethal scamming. The unhingery of 150 posts in... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 18 |
| 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 |
| Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today! 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... |
Brainwrap | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
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David Waldman | 12/02/2025 | 1 |