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| Bone Spurs on the ground, hitting Venezuelan drug cartels and hoping for spillage onto US soil Less blowback than attacking Mexican cartels, but will it spill into regime change for Maduro. New US strikes will offset the September boat killing snafus, because the Trump administration is all about incompetent misdirection. Unfortunately, actual... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 10 |
| Device Hoarding, AI, Oligarchs, Affordability, And The End of the American Economy Did you know that your refusal to purchase new devices is destroying the economy?
It’s true, at least according to CNBC, the people who sell devices, and various economists. �The problem, you see, |
angryea | 12/03/2025 | 102 |
| News the felon and GOP don't want us to see! Dec 3, 2025 edition, with poll 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, |
chloris creator | 12/03/2025 | 36 |
| Do stories of the EU/UK Treasury dump plan bring a different crisis into view? The EU/UK plan to dump US Treasuries if the US abandons Ukraine starts to hint a growing global risk — the lack of underlying ability to trust. We are seeing it develop but haven’t tied it to the one big risk — are currencies going to cease to... |
tjlord | 12/03/2025 | 23 |
| Need Some Early Holiday Cheer? Special Delivery! December 3rd Good News Roundup (GNR) No matter what holiday people celebrate this time of year is usually celebrated. The days are getting super short and the harvest is in. For us Americans, Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror and ... |
bilboteach | 12/03/2025 | 88 |
| Hegseth fade - Phase 1: Sink the boat. Phase 2: Eliminate the threat. Phase 3: Profit (or prison) While Hegseth should also be on trial for this, Admiral Bradley could have refused that order if he believed it to be illegal. The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes. Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| "1/6th of people in the US are foreign born. That is not sustainable for our culture" Who sez? Racial Xenophobia and the GOP are not sustainable in 2026, even as one Florida representative favors the “remigration” trope supporting deportation of naturalized citizens. Florida district 3 Representative Kat Cammarck (R-FL): "1/6th of people in the... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 16 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 3rd, 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 | 12/03/2025 | 11 |
| Lindsey Graham demands the Pope get on the right side of... Venezuelan boat people? Doubling down to divert attention from those ‘kill them all’ orders from 2 September, since no one seems to have been there during the ‘second strike’ off Venezuela. As a student of Trump’s rhetoric, this is by far the most overtly racist, dehumanizing... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 180 Hello! I’m among those filling in for the intrepid Oz Perspective while he’s indisposed. Here we go! |
belinda ridgewood | 12/02/2025 | 68 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,383: Trump's 'plan' sells out Ukraine, Europe, and American leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the US-Ukrainian peace proposal during his meeting with a US delegation in Moscow on December 2 and remains highly unlikely to accept any compromises short of his original war goals. Because Trump’s plans are... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 57 |
| 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 |
| Top Comments: Busy December Edition This December is shaping up to be a really busy one for me. Tonight and next Tuesday, I am attending two hockey games. Weeknight games are rare for me now that my sister switched to a school in the ... |
cohenzee | 12/02/2025 | 8 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/2/2025: Cliff Notes 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... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/02/2025 | 89 |
| Trump's Wrecking-Ball Administration The demolition of the East Wing of the White House is symbolic of Trump’s impact on America. Our political climate, our democracy, and our moral standing in the world have all suffered crippling body blows. One way to measure the damage Trump has... |
TheSicilian | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| ‘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 |
| VICTORY: Judge orders implementation of UFW contract at NY's Wafler Farms Wayne County, NY — On December 2, 2025, a judge in Wayne County, New York ruled that Wafler Farms, a major apple producer and nursery in upstate New York, must implement the UFW contract it had been refusing to implement for months on end. The long... |
ufw | 12/02/2025 | 8 |
| 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 |
| The Three-Pronged Approach: Getting House Repubs to Declare as Independent, Caucusing With Dems [after reading and perhaps seeing the video links, please participate in the polls at the end of this post] Only a month ago, the premise of the #ImmediateFlipMovement would’ve been naive at best, excessively optimistic. But now we’re on the verge of a... |
ProgToddNorCal | 12/02/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| Poetry of Dorothy Parker. Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page. |
A Pagan in Arizona | 12/02/2025 | 20 |
| DEMENTIA J. TRUMP Says Affordability is a Scam. And Also that He is the Affordability President? It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the meandering mental mania that emanates from the mind of Donald Trump. Anyone observing his increasingly deranged behavior has to be concerned about the risk of harm that he is capable of to the... |
News Corpse | 12/02/2025 | 15 |
| Trump is cutting drug prices by infinity dollars, apparently President Donald Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during his Cabinet meeting Tuesday. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims like cutting drug prices by 1,500% , his assessment of ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/02/2025 | 91 |
| 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 |
| A History of Murder on the High Seas: The Execution of Captain Heinz Eck Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface.... |
KeithDB | 11/30/2025 | 113 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sunday Morning Open Thread with Music by Franz Schubert Good morning, everyone. This morning’s artist is the Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Though he was only 31 when he died, he left a vast body of work. This diary only gives you three examples, ... |
Ice Blue | 11/30/2025 | 41 |
| This Week in the War on Women, 11/23-29/25: Thanksgiving Week Open Thread Many Native women promote�the true story of Thanksgiving:� Ramona Peters : The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving: After Squanto’s aid with corn and other planting, the pilgrims had a ... |
elenacarlena | 11/29/2025 | 58 |
| 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 |