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Russian stuff blowing up: Another Russian tanker attacked in Black Sea
A third oil tanker came under attack near the coast of Turkey. Two others were crippled in an earlier strike. Also, a fourth tanker has been slowly sinking off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. An update from the tanker off the coast of Senegal: 2/...
quaoar 12/02/2025 168
Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions
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...
Meteor Blades 12/02/2025 199
Time for Change is here
So many people have vested interests in maintaining the status quo that change is difficult at best. Depending on the magnitude of the change, it can be nearly impossible. Take, for instance, America’s body politic before Trump. Our government had, for...
40ford 12/02/2025 5
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
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
Now, the Trump administration's policy is to let alleged drug-boat smugglers go scot-free
After September 2nd, the “kill everybody” policy for alleged drug smugglers who survived boat sinkings was changed. Now they rescue them and let them go free. The Biden policy was to bring them to the US, prosecute them, and jail them if there was...
tadamsmar 12/02/2025 7
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
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
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
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
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun
dig for buried ...
strawbale 12/01/2025 18
Krugman's explanation for Trump's pardon of the former Honduran president needs prime time attention
This past Friday, Trump announced he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in March 2024 was convicted by a U.S. jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import massive amounts of cocaine into the...
RETIII 12/01/2025 204
Costco sues Trump admin seeking tariff refunds before SCOTUS rules if they’re illegal
Costco has sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out. From...
AKALib 12/01/2025 109
No One Should Be Shocked: Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was
Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been...
bison 12/01/2025 29
World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum)
The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the...
sfbob 12/01/2025 17
Europe Might Leave America Hanging By Dumping $2.34 Trillion In U.S. Debt If Trump Sells Out Ukraine
This doesn’t sound good... Daily Express European nations are reportedly weighing the "nuclear option" of destabilizing the American economy should Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and compromise continental security. Discussions between American and...
PvtJarHead 12/01/2025 311
The decline in Trump's approval stuns CNN's numbers guy. The GOP is staring at a midterm abyss
In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him...
TheCriticalMind 12/01/2025 149
For those grieving the death of a loved one when the world seems to be on fire.
“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...
Scott Janssen 12/01/2025 9
Spot the AI in this Diary - UPDATED
I Use AI to Help Me Write. That's Not What's Happening Here. I've been writing here on Daily Kos for a while now, and yes, I started using AI to help. Claude helps me fact-check death tolls in genocides. It helps me smooth a clunky transition. It finds...
LilBoyBlu 12/01/2025 48
NEW VIDEO: MRFF supports Mark Kelly 100%, with a few choice words for ESPN's Stephen A. Smith!
NOTE: For anyone who hasn’t yet heard about ESPN's Stephen A. Smith’s despicable comments about Mark Kelly, read this very short article from The Hill: “Stephen A. Smith rips Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video: ‘How dare you do that.’”
Mikey Weinstein 12/01/2025 73
PWB Peeps: Moonday Wiff Da Furbutts
Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.�� We can haz funz!� All ob uz! ...
The Marti 12/01/2025 84
The Second Warning
When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...
sbanks 12/01/2025 247
At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions
I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/01/2025 119
Cartoon: The war on woke
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Tom Tomorrow 12/01/2025 28
Top Comments: The Universe Is NOT a Computer Simulation
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
gizmo59 11/30/2025 58
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
Cartoon: Treason!
A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.
Drew Sheneman 11/30/2025 22
29 times Fox News made us cringe in disgust this year
President Donald Trump is attached at the hip to Fox News, the right-wing propaganda network. The relationship goes back more than a decade, when Fox held a regular commentary slot open for Trump to ...
Oliver Willis 11/30/2025 15
An incomplete list of Musk’s insane promises for his robots
If you believe Elon Musk—though, honestly, why would you ?—he is going to build eleventy billion humanoid robots that will do literally everything , ushering in an unprecedented era of ...
Lisa Needham 11/30/2025 107
Cartoon: Kash Patel's girlfriend, your ride is here
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Kash Patel and Kristi Noem take corruption to new heights—...
Jack Ohman 11/30/2025 14
Not serious enough to turn on the siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance ride still cost over $9,000
By � Tony Leys �for KFF Elisabeth Yoder’s son, Darragh, was 15 months old in August when he developed what at first looked to his parents like hand, foot, and mouth disease. The common�
KFF 11/30/2025 138
11 times Karoline Leavitt earned her ‘propaganda princess’ nickname
Since stepping into the role of White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt has revealed herself to be shameless enough to earn the moniker of “propaganda princess.” No matter the Trump ...
Walter Einenkel 11/30/2025 42
Here’s why Latino voters are turning away from Trump
We already knew Latino voters were drifting from President Donald Trump, pushed not just by his hard-edged deportation agenda —...
Alex Samuels 11/30/2025 160
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
Cartoon: Just like Jesus would have wanted
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and ...
Clay Bennett 11/30/2025 25
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
Americans say 'no thanks' to red states
President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ...
Andrew Mangan 11/29/2025 132