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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: Open Thread I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight.
Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 12/03/2025 | 7 |
| Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ... |
kos | 12/03/2025 | 118 |
| Cartoon: Accountability
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Nick Anderson | 12/03/2025 | 19 |
| 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 |
| Pam Bondi is pissing off Republicans by dodging Epstein files release A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing on when, exactly, she’s going to get around ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/03/2025 | 75 |
| 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 |
| Trump targets Venezuelan DJ—yes, really The Trump administration is going after a Venezuelan social media influencer as tensions with the South American country reach a boiling point. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/03/2025 | 35 |
| Vance promises to totally fix economy 'next year' During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance argued that it was unfair to expect the Trump administration to address issues like affordability in the first 10 months of President Donald ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/03/2025 | 117 |
| The Recap: House speaker loses control, and Trump's corrupt DOJ rages on A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Legal watchdogs won’t bite Trump’s corrupt pet lawyers And their excuses are, in technical terms, some bullshit. GOP in crisis mode after... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/03/2025 | 2 |
| '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 |
| Trump regime won’t stop trying to screw over another Comey Earlier this year, Maureen Comey was abruptly—and, let’s face it, wrongly—terminated from her job as a federal prosecutor for the extreme misdeed of being former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter. It also probably didn’t help that she worked on the... |
Lisa Needham | 12/03/2025 | 28 |
| 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 |
| Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary) | Ojibwa | 12/03/2025 | 4 |
| House speaker can’t keep his house in order Even by the standards of this year’s rolling political chaos, you’d expect House Republicans to at least try to project unity—if only to pretend their razor-thin majority isn’t hanging by a ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/03/2025 | 36 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Small businesses suffer brutally under Trump A new report released Wednesday shows that small businesses experienced a six-figure drop in employment in the month of November as millions of Americans struggle with a worsening economy under ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/03/2025 | 78 |
| Cartoon: Following that logic ... A cartoon by David Horsey.
Related |� Two National Guard troops shot in ambush attack just blocks from the White ... |
David Horsey | 12/03/2025 | 20 |
| "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 |
| GOP in crisis mode after Tennessee special election Republicans' unimpressive victory in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District Tuesday night has the party terrified, with lawmakers and strategists alike fearing that a number of House races once ... |
Emily Singer | 12/03/2025 | 147 |
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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 |
| Legal watchdogs won’t bite Trump’s corrupt pet lawyers The Virginia State Bar is the latest watchdog to turn tail and run rather than deal with the crime spree that is President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
The bar, which theoretically ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/03/2025 | 59 |
| AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care
New AI-powered programs offer help to patients stymied by insurance denials.
By Anna Claire Vollers for� Stateline
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, ... |
Stateline | 12/03/2025 | 31 |
| 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 |
| Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America 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 ... |
Toro Blanco | 12/03/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| IAN 12/3/25 - Music for Stargazing, Meditation, and Prayer - Part I For todayâs music therapy, some simply beautiful poetry and compositions for contemplating the night sky, nature, and inward peace, for all religions, pagans, agnostics, and atheists: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 |
Tippy and Dad | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: Busy December Edition This December is shaping up to be a really busy one for me. Tonight and next Tuesday, I am attending two hockey games. Weeknight games are rare for me now that my sister switched to a school in the ... |
cohenzee | 12/02/2025 | 8 |
| 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 |
| ‘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 |
| 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 |