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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
Stoppard, the bard... Sir Tom is dead
I didn't notice any notice of the notice, but Sir Tom Stoppard died a few days ago, https://www.bbc.com/... ... preceeded by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, reportedly peacefully, and surrounded by family. He is due his eternal rest, in my opinion. He...
Murphoney 12/02/2025 10
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
New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder
Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh?
The Marti 12/02/2025 147
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
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 12/02/2025 9
How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media
President Donald Trump has long been all for bullying and demeaning the media and individual reporters, but since taking office it has become an administration-wide affair. In its latest attack on ...
Alix Breeden 12/02/2025 35
More people are caring for dying loved ones at home. A New Orleans nonprofit is showing them how.
By � Halle Parker, Verite News, �for� KFF Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay ...
KFF 12/02/2025 12
Cartoon: Couples therapy
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ...
Mike Luckovich 12/02/2025 16
For SecWar Hegseth, Signalgate was nothing compared to Admiral Bradley pushed in front of...
Will Admiral Bradley get keelhauled with a steam catapult? IT’S STILL HEGSETH’S ORDERS and the WHITE HOUSE gets its firewall. Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules...
annieli 12/02/2025 130
House Dems Release Report on (Some of) the Felon's and His Families' Corruption
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 ...
chloris creator 12/02/2025 66
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
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...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/02/2025 73
Do you believe governments should create dedicated offices to assess how they're using AI?
New York City is taking another swing at something few governments have managed to get right: regulating artificial intelligence. The City Council recently passed a package of bills known as the GUARD Act, short for Guaranteeing Unbiased AI Regulation...
IndiePundit 12/02/2025 6
GNR for December 2, 2025
Good Day, Gnuville! I hope you all had a pleasant Thanksgiving. 🥧🧡🍗 I’d like to open with this nice discussion about Thanksgiving by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. Something that really caught my interest and which...
niftywriter 12/02/2025 155
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Why Latin America and why now?
We begin today with� Greg Sargent �of The New Republic and his many doubt about the Congressional Republicans willingness to investigate the Caribbean boat strikes. To be sure, this does look like ...
Chitown Kev 12/02/2025 331
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
The White House Vulvacollum* is still about Epstein (and scandal)
The end of civilization appears on the horizon in decades of the usual scams mostly vaporware globally applied. For example, if you don’t have a REAL-ID or its equivalent you might not be able to travel, and even if you are, it’ll cost you $45 USD. In...
annieli 12/02/2025 13
Gavin Newsom trolls re:MRI
Did anyone else see this?
joel6653 12/02/2025 157
Morning Open thread Tuesday December 2, songs with a female's name in the title
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 ...
Ozarkblue 12/02/2025 142
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 179
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 42
IAN: My Very Long Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend
I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl.
bigjacbigjacbigjac 12/01/2025 24
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn 'moral clarity' - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow 'peace' talks?
Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016. "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian...
annieli 12/01/2025 47
Overnight News Digest: Who has access to footage of Flock surveillance cameras?
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 ...
maggiejean 12/01/2025 21