| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAFO: US Chamber of Commerce and Small Businesses Taxes The US Chamber of Commerce membership is 90% small business. They were big supporters of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that reduced their company taxes, increased their business deductions and reduced their estate taxes. Trump made them richer. Boosters... |
CorpFlunky | 12/05/2025 | 57 |
| Guess what, Dan Bongino? Pipe bomb suspect thought the 2020 election was stolen In news that is certain to get an FBI source fired by the corrupt clowns who sit atop the Justice Department and the FBI, CNN is reporting that the D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Coles Jr., has told the FBI that he believed the 2020 election was stolen.... |
Bob Johnson | 12/05/2025 | 154 |
| Out of step: Trump breaks up with his ballroom architect 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. |
Lisa Needham | 12/05/2025 | 190 |
| Why Vance Could Never Be as Dangerous as Trump What with Trump showing increasing signs of dementia and general physical deterioration, thought naturally turns to the question of what would happen if he cannot complete the three years remaining in his term? The obvious answer is that the Vice... |
AndySchmookler | 12/05/2025 | 205 |
| Cartoon: Dozy Don A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Drew Sheneman | 12/05/2025 | 24 |
| How bad is the video of strike two? Will the 2026 election be GOP's strike three Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 50 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump losing both independents and his own voters POLITICO :
Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis
Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/05/2025 | 404 |
| GNR for Friday, December 5, 2025: Hope makes a difference Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ... |
chloris creator | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| Morning Open Thread: Witch Burning - Mozart Dies - Joan Didion - AFL-CIO - Global Carbon Emissions ______________________________________________________ “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... |
officebss | 12/05/2025 | 41 |
| Somalis for Trump??
SOMALIS 4 TRUMP!??
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! I know the norm on KOS is that every diary should be a thoughtful essay of some length. I’ve been a member for 16 years and had several “Recc’d” articles over the years with a few even earning their brief moment at the very top of the Rec List. I am... |
integrate | 12/05/2025 | 193 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 5th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 182 Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection. |
belinda ridgewood | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| My father survived WWII because the Nazis did not kill survivors when his bomber was shot down In May 1943 my father was flight crew on an allied bomber that was shot out of the sky in Germany by a Nazi fighter plane while returning from a raid on Hamburg. The Luftwaffe fighter pilot did not shoot the parachuting “enemies of the Reich” as my... |
integrate | 12/04/2025 | 170 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,385: Putin’s original war aims continue, despite the Alaska misadventure Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 3 to 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea and... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| 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
shower ... |
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 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Sleepy Dump! Check out all the Pinocchio trump cartoons : www.youtube.com/... |
PresidentOso | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| Cartoon: Con job president A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ... |
Clay Jones | 12/04/2025 | 15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic thing During his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed that concerns about the affordability of goods and services are a “fake narrative.” Trump also falsely claimed ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/02/2025 | 167 |
| Cartoon: Pardon Me? www.patreon.com/keefknight
Purchase the 2026 Keefie Cartoon Calendar!
Keef on Substack!
Related |� Delirious president goes on ... |
keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| ‘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 |
| Nancy Mace wants to be governor. Voters feel differently. New polling suggests Republican Rep. Nancy Mace's bid for governor of South Carolina is in danger.
A survey released Tuesday from the polling firm Wick found Mace is fourth in the crowded ... |
Emily Singer | 12/02/2025 | 45 |
| Another huge celebrity gives ICE the cold shoulder The White House can’t seem to take a hint: Artists don’t want their music all over the Trump administration’s egregiously cruel deportation videos.�
Sabrina Carpenter is the latest musician ... |
Alix Breeden | 12/02/2025 | 53 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Fixed it A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete ... |
Clay Bennett | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| The Recap: Noem’s racist ‘full travel ban’ idea, and how you’re funding Trump’s attack on media 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... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/02/2025 | 3 |
| How Trump’s DOJ is pushing the limits of the statute of limitations As sure as the sun will rise, the Justice Department is going to figure out a way to reindict former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James—because why let a little ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/02/2025 | 57 |
| 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 |
| Kristi Noem pushes a ‘full travel ban’ in wake of DC shooting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is seizing on the fatal shooting of a National Guard member in Washington—using the tragedy to push for a sweeping new travel ban that goes well beyond ... |
Alex Samuels | 12/02/2025 | 165 |
| Cartoon: Executing the law A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Related |� ‘Don’t give up the ship’: Democrat stands up to Trump’s death ... |
Jack Ohman | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| House speaker has jaw-dropping defense of Trump's use of slur House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to cover for Donald Trump after the president called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “ seriously retarded " during a Thanksgiving Day rant online. Johnson was asked about ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/02/2025 | 126 |
| 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 |
| Delirious president goes on manic posting binge President Donald Trump went on a manic late night social media posting binge on Monday night, reinforcing concerns about how abnormal his behavior has been during this presidency.
Between the hours ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/02/2025 | 246 |
| Trump's EPA Just Approved What??? 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 ... |
announ | 12/02/2025 | 116 |
| Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday blamed a military commander for the apparent war crime the U.S. military committed in September in the Caribbean Sea, saying that it was Admiral Mitch Bradley, |
Emily Singer | 12/02/2025 | 148 |