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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
Community Needs List: Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Coffee Hour
Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour’s Helping Humpday, where people wanting to lend a hand can connect with community members in need. Have a cuppa and join us.
Aashirs nani 12/03/2025 8
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
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
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
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
Dickens and the Common Good
Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
otter54 12/02/2025 3
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 178
ZenTrainer 11/30/2025 13
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
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 11/30/2025 3
Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary)
Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 2
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 177
Sound up Holy Shit! This is where my story ends. Anything between this and the comments has nothing to do with me. ZT
ZenTrainer 11/30/2025 35
Russian stuff blowing up: Will selling gold reserves save Russia's economy?
Russia has been selling off some of its gold reserves to finance the war, but even that desperate move won’t work forever. Russia’s central bank has about 2,330 tons of gold in its reserves (worth about $300 billion) and the National Wealth Fund held...
quaoar 11/30/2025 133
Museums 501: Sewing machines (photo diary)
Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 11
Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81
Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you�
Denise Oliver Velez 11/30/2025 135
The Elusivity of Kindness.
Hmm, where to start? A modern definition, American Psychological Association n. benevolent and helpful action intentionally directed toward another person. Kindness is often considered to be motivated by the desire to help another, not to gain explicit...
LaFeminista 11/30/2025 9
Bob's Picture of the Day for November 30th, 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 11/30/2025 20
IAN: November 30, 2025 - How can tomorrow be December?
I swear, this year has lasted forever and it’s still almost over. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, ...
loggersbrat 11/29/2025 20
Saturday Top Comments: Breaking Addiction Behaviors
The mind can be a fickle monster. A chemical imbalance, some faulty wiring, and things can happen. Any recovering addict will tell you that they’re still an addict. Ask a neurodivergent person how ...
zenbassoon 11/29/2025 25
Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Guard commanders sounded the warning, but the DOJ called it 'speculative'
Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...
Dartagnan 11/29/2025 118