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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Parrots Are Great
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strawbale 12/04/2025 40
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
Write On! Seasons Writings, or, the Advent of Winter
Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...
dconrad 12/04/2025 56
Write-On Weekly Fiction Works in Progress (WIP) diary: A Busyness of Ferrets (DaKoWriMo)
Welcome to the Weekly Fiction WIP Thread! � This is a weekly community diary for writers here on Daily Kos to showcase microfiction, ongoing serialized stories, and pieces of larger works in ...
sagesource 12/04/2025 26
More kids are dying—thanks to Trump
For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?” The Gates Foundation issued a ...
Lisa Needham 12/04/2025 47
🕎✡️Dmytro Klebanov-1st Symphony In Memoriam To The Martyrs of Babi Yar, Ukraine-US Premiere
Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...
Tippy and Dad 12/04/2025 35
Mad about the economy? Trump toady says you're just in a bad 'mood'
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was confronted on Fox News, of all places, with polling that shows most Americans have a negative view of the economy and blame it on President ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 82
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
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
THE TRUMP REGIME Wants to Take America Back - To the 1970s So They Can Buy Crappy Cars and Stuff
One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the...
News Corpse 12/04/2025 26
This tech bro hopes Trump's boat bombings will bring big bucks
We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently ...
Lisa Needham 12/04/2025 55
Cartoon: A stab, er, pat on the back
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ...
Mike Luckovich 12/04/2025 11
You’ll want to hear Mark Kelly’s latest take on Pete Hegseth
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona isn’t done wiping the floor with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Center for American Progress event in Washington Thursday, Kelly was asked how he ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 84
The village of Mammoth Hot Springs
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 16
House speaker to struggling Americans: 'Relax'
The rising cost of living is squeezing Americans, with polls finding that roughly three-quarters say prices are higher than they were a year ago and that nearly half blame President Donald Trump for ...
Emily Singer 12/04/2025 99
Minneapolis mayor tells Trump what the real 'garbage' is
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey clapped back to President Donald Trump’s racist tirades against Somali immigrants in his city. Trump has recently taken to slandering Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 28
As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis
There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by...
annieli 12/04/2025 39
JD Vance invites attendees to a VP Hanukkah observance to celebrate"50 Years of Christmas"
In 2008, the Bush administration had to apologize when the White House Hanukkah party invitation featured a Christmas tree. The Trump administration scoffs at that slur as small potatoes. It is now metaphorically saying, "Hold my beer." To hell with a...
TheCriticalMind 12/04/2025 212
Did The New York Times just grow a spine?
The New York Times and its veteran intelligence reporter, Julian E. Barnes, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on Thursday, accusing the Defense Department of trampling on reporters’ First Amendment rights through a sweeping new set of reporting...
Alex Samuels 12/04/2025 87
USPS part of vote suppression?
So, the last diary I could find was from tenacious12 in October of this year, www.dailykos.com/… , and didn’t mention a new USPS policy. I saw an article from WBAY 2 titled “USPS policy change on postmarks may affect property tax payments” and started...
geekydee 12/04/2025 35
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thurs Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after calling Trump out at a stop in New York, California...
justiceputnam 12/04/2025 1
Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again)
Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the...
annieli 12/04/2025 31
Russian stuff blowing up: 'We can't leave Ukraine alone with these guys'
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...
quaoar 12/04/2025 91
Ohio Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ...
snowbored 12/04/2025 3
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths? 
We all seemed to breathe a sigh of relief two weeks ago when it was reported the “Chainsaw” Musk’s DOGE and the DOGEbags had ceased operating inside our national government. It was a lie. Mike Masnick posted on TechDirt, Dec 3rd 2025, Forget Whether Or...
NBBooks 12/04/2025 11
Hegseth could have killed troops with Signal chat leak
The Department of Defense inspector general’s report on the Signalgate scandal reveals that Secretary of State Pete Hegseth’s actions endangered the lives of American troops by revealing key ...
Oliver Willis 12/04/2025 25
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
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials, Me tro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays! Starting off in the Bistro C ...
justiceputnam 12/04/2025 1
Happy Birthday to the Greatest Station in the Nation
Forty-five years ago today, WWOZ went on the air at 90.7 FM, dedicated to promoting the music and culture of New Orleans. Initially the dream of brothers Walter and Jerry Brock (Jerry was also a co-founder of the Louisiana Music Factory store), the...
Crashing Vor 12/04/2025 10