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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
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
Would You Pee on Trump's Grave? Take the poll
Would you pee on Trumps Grave? Take The Poll!
Noamjunior 12/04/2025 107
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
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
Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore
There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to...
Mokurai 12/04/2025 98
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: ICE storm into The Big Easy
We begin today with� Lucy Campbell �of The Guardian reporting on new ICE actions in the city of New Orleans. Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a ...
Chitown Kev 12/04/2025 343
Morning Open Thread Thursday December 4, theme: Naughty songs
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 ...
Ozarkblue 12/04/2025 63
"I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete
It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because...
annieli 12/04/2025 93
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181
ZenTrainer 12/04/2025 29
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?"
US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's...
annieli 12/03/2025 33
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
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/3/25: Toxic Impunity
42 years ago today was the worst industrial disaster of all time. ….while killing off the ...
jck 12/03/2025 107
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
Steve Cropper, musician, 1941-2025
Steven Lee Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. You may not know his name, but you know his sound, from Dock on the Bay (which he co-wrote with Otis...
Rambler797 12/03/2025 72
The PLA General Who Refused to Wage War Against Student Protesters in 1989
By an odd historical coincidence, just as potential war crimes are finally being directed against the US military officers (and their civilian overseers in the Defense Department) involved with the now 3-month long terror campaign against small boats...
Irontortoise 12/03/2025 14
Hillary Clinton - Some Unnamed Gaza Videos "Pure Propaganda"
Hillary Clinton recently said that Tik Tok is responsible for young people being opposed to what’s happening in Gaza. She accused young people of, among many other things, ignoring what happened on October 7th and of being ignorant on Israel’s history....
PJ the WB Lefty 12/03/2025 90
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
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
Jack Smith Subpoenaed
So, Jim Jordan is demanding Jack Smith appear before his oversight committee, in a CLOSED DOOR meeting. And they request the documentation he possesses in Trump’s theft of National Security documents case, be turned over to the committee. For oversight...
SpaceElevator 12/03/2025 94
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
Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets a refinery in Tambov
Ukraine struck the oil refinery in the Tambov region, which is about 420 km southeast of Moscow. A section of the Druzhba pipeline was destroyed by Ukraine. Russia hit this church in Kostiantynivka. All those fiber-optic cables laying around came in...
quaoar 12/03/2025 45
"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
Seriously, WTF are these new Epstein photos?
Just released. WTF are the masks and chair for? Like something out of a horror movie.
Gramarye 12/03/2025 163
Donald's ducking the real reason he's using aspirin.
This will be brief because I have written about it before. The White House cover-up artists have stated that the bruises on the President’s right hand are due to his use of aspirin and trauma from shaking hands. But the American Heart Association and...
mrli 12/03/2025 220
"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
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 180
Hello! I’m among those filling in for the intrepid Oz Perspective while he’s indisposed. Here we go!
belinda ridgewood 12/02/2025 68
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
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/2/2025: Cliff Notes
Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving...
belinda ridgewood 12/02/2025 89
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
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
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
#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
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
For SecWar Hegseth, Signalgate was nothing compared to Admiral Bradley pushed in front of...
Will Admiral Bradley get keelhauled with a steam catapult? IT’S STILL HEGSETH’S ORDERS and the WHITE HOUSE gets its firewall. Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules...
annieli 12/02/2025 130
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
The White House Vulvacollum* is still about Epstein (and scandal)
The end of civilization appears on the horizon in decades of the usual scams mostly vaporware globally applied. For example, if you don’t have a REAL-ID or its equivalent you might not be able to travel, and even if you are, it’ll cost you $45 USD. In...
annieli 12/02/2025 13
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
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn 'moral clarity' - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow 'peace' talks?
Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016. "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian...
annieli 12/01/2025 47
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
'Imperial Blowback' or PTSD? DC shooter part of CIA death squad in Afghanistan? Too soon to tell.
The GOP and the White House may be hoping Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a Marinus van der Lubbe? Too soon to tell, as long as he’s not dead, because the ICE cosplay death squads need their continuing anonymity in the service of mass deportation and migration...
annieli 12/01/2025 14
Hegseth fired JAG officers because they can't handle the truth: War Crime or Murder on the high seas
Was it a traditional wooden Trini fishing boat, not even a “go-fast” boat? So video of strike #1 used for propaganda is unclassified but video of strike #2 is classified? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the...
annieli 12/01/2025 128
Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit)
The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
Daily Bucket: A Walk at Sawgrass Lake
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 12/01/2025 46
12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
enhydra lutris 12/01/2025 6
Cartoon: The war on woke
As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
Tom Tomorrow 12/01/2025 28
Cheers and Jeers: Monday
"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/01/2025 130
Why stop there? Free Felicidad Noriega's hubby. Oh wait, he's dead, Jaime.
Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad was arraigned for allegedly shoplifting buttons, one day after the former Panamanian dictator was convicted of dealing drugs for a cocaine cartel. Much like Nicolae Ceaușescu’s plumbing fetish, there are always...
annieli 12/01/2025 4
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,381: everywhere and not a drop to drink
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the US-proposed peace plan aims to ensure Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and economic development, during the US-Ukrainian talks in Hallandale Beach, Florida on November 30. Other Key Takeaways:...
annieli 12/01/2025 32
Pardoning ex-Presidente Jefe because 400 tons of trafficked drugs isn't like trafficking children
Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison...
annieli 11/30/2025 36