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Yesterday, as reported by many media outlets, the current sitting president of the United States, at the end of a 2hr meeting of his cabinet, said ranted the following, about Somali-Americans and any other Muslim-Americans generally, to gathered...

NOTE: I thought about putting this into the comments of today APR, but it was too lengthy. Therefore, I decided to write a diary entry instead. Thanks for this morning’s APR. I would just add one thing. I understand that statisticians prefer to take in...

President Donald Trump’s billionaire-focused economy is not improving, the Epstein files are not disappearing, and every distraction the administration throws out is meeting far more scrutiny and ...

So many of our ballots get thrown out in every election. So many voters have their registration canceled. MILLIONS. But voters in BLUE STATES can do something about it. Call your STATE REPRESENTATIVE and demand that they pass a state bill to support...

Damage from Russian bombings to the Chernobyl site will require extensive repair. The containment building had already passed its supposed lifespan before the Russian attack. In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which...

Putin’s argument is that� 1) Russia is now winning 2) therefore, its ultimate victory is inevitable (and imminent) 3) Therefore, Arming Ukraine is useless. Actually, 1) while Rusia is ...

Good morning, beloved Newdists. I’ve spent the whole week guzzling soup and sleeping, and occasionally reading abject trash as a palate cleanser. It’s mostly worked. In fact, has helped prodigiously. I’m even feeling human, instead of feeling like wet...

Shortly after American-born Robert Prevost was elected Pope, J.D. Vance and his wife stopped in to visit with the new pontiff. In addition to a Chicago Bears shirt, Vance brought the American Pope two books by St. Augustine. This gift represented a...

Our winter birdie visitors are arriving. There are flocks of several species which spend the winter here at Crescent Lake Park. Some photos. Crescent ...

A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an...

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under scrutiny for allegedly bending the bureau’s resources to support his personal life, this time involving his girlfriend’s social outings. According ...

President Donald Trump received a made-up peace prize from the International Federation of Association Football ahead of the 2026 World Cup, ...

The Trump administration released its “ National Security Strategy ”� on Thursday night, but the document reads more like a manifesto advocating for white supremacy than a supposed national ...

Please Support Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” As you know, Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones is recovering from a stroke, but has started posting again on DK and...

Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much given up watching any network news. I record Rachel, and occasionally watch Lawrence and maybe catch 30 minutes of Nicole out of her two hour show. So where do I stay informed? Multiple platforms and...

President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo. McCrery Architects, you’re fired.

This Bucket takes you on a short walk we did a couple weeks ago on the northern tip of Camano Island. We’d had several days of rain, more like� gray skies with on and off�showers. On a forecasted ...

A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ...

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...

______________________________________________________ “The planet is sending warnings in the form of storms, heat, and extreme weather events. Our choice is to act or to be acted upon.” ― Victor Manan Nyambala Kenyan Supply Chain Expert...

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...

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 ...

Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ...

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 ...

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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...

Also: Degenerate President spews racist invective against U.S. Somali community ahead of planned federal immigration thuggery... Not that I hope to tip off our degenerate authoritarian oligarchy on today's BradCast. But if the Republican Party still...

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 ...

This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. They all so two people - BOB, a white guy with glasses, and JOE, a Black guy wearing a tan zip jacket - talking as they walk on a suburban sidewalk. PANEL 1...

The battle against biased media is a continuing and exhausting ordeal during the administration of Donald Trump, who frequently refers to the press in Stalinist terms as "the enemy of the people." No American president has been more hostile toward the...

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,

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 ...

Just released. WTF are the masks and chair for? Like something out of a horror movie.

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 ...

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 ...