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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 ( ...

Cartoon: GUGU GAGA, MAGA sobs MAMA! : “The TACO ruint my FUN” :-( NBF & Buynott! As the monster they’ve loosed on America, turns its lustful, graft sharpened teeth on them, MAGA no longer gets their ‘rocks off’ watching others suffer. But this level of...

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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...

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 ...

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 ...

42 years ago today was the worst industrial disaster of all time. ….while killing off the ...

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...

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,

“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...

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.

In the last month, we have seen significant weakening of the felon and his enablers. A brief summary of some of the evidence of the increased weakness: The elections in November proved that. And,

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....

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...

It’s 4:00�AM and I can’t sleep. There�is a problem weighing on my mind. It’s not just my problem. Sooner or later,�it might be yours too. My mother died a few hours ago. Her body is still ...

They both should be arrested for dishonoring this country.

News came yesterday that after throwing a legion of barely-trained Mobiki at the Ukrainian defenses on the Pokrovsky line, the Russian command has decided that is not working(fast enough?). They have to try something new because they’re : 'Crawling...

Hegseth suddenly realized that he may be liable for ICC courts. That means he can’t travel anywhere after he escapes the MAGA universe or he might get dragged into a real court. So he needed someone to claim that ‘I was not there’. It is so obvious.

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...

My notes from the AI generated "Something Horrifying Just Happened In the "White House" YouTube video: Remember that power is not a gift to be wielded instead it is a responsibility to be honored. The White House wants "Every order from President Trump...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

There is so much corruption and criming being done by the felon, the felon’s family,�and his cronies and minions. On top of it, he has pardon power, which means many of them are getting�away with ...

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...

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI Wired An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to ...

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Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona held a press conference on Monday, taking� President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ...

This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today is a simple open thread. I’m away from my computer all day, so I could use some help in posting the community ...

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 ...

GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri appeared on Fox News on Monday, where he claimed that Democrats’

“Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil society is not dedicated to that end what else could...

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...

"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:...

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ...

The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...

On Truth Social, Donald Trump is using the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members stationed in Washington DC to add to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim hysteria. He announced he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World...

Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about....

Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration. In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ...