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| Legal watchdogs won’t bite Trump’s corrupt pet lawyers The Virginia State Bar is the latest watchdog to turn tail and run rather than deal with the crime spree that is President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
The bar, which theoretically ... |
Lisa Needham | 12/03/2025 | 59 |
| AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care
New AI-powered programs offer help to patients stymied by insurance denials.
By Anna Claire Vollers for� Stateline
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, ... |
Stateline | 12/03/2025 | 31 |
| Cartoon: The listeria league
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. |
Jen Sorensen | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| 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 |
| Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ... |
Toro Blanco | 12/03/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| Morning Open Thread: New Wave Music Some gems of the New Wave. Please include your own favorites in the comments. Brian Eno & David Byrne, “America Is Waiting” x ... |
Youffraita | 12/03/2025 | 62 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: "Meat Assaults" Not Working So Russian "Special Forces" to Pokrovsk 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... |
Decimus | 12/02/2025 | 70 |
| 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 |
| IAN 12/3/25 - Music for Stargazing, Meditation, and Prayer - Part I For todayâs music therapy, some simply beautiful poetry and compositions for contemplating the night sky, nature, and inward peace, for all religions, pagans, agnostics, and atheists: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 |
Tippy and Dad | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| Insomniacs' Late Night Vent Hole -
In Support of Mark Kelly Edition Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a no flame zone . This vent-hole (hereinafter known as IVH), if lost or stolen will not be replaced or ... |
RRG3DAV | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| Overnight News Digest December 2, 2025
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �... |
Chitown Kev | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| Pete Hegseth's Fatal Fabrication: The Shadowy Order to "Kill Them All" This is a Forensic Psychological and Operational Reconstruction of the September 2nd Directive 1. Introduction: The Semiotics of Lethality in the New American Century On September 2, 2025, the serene expanse of the Caribbean Sea was ruptured by a... |
ArizonaLiberal | 12/02/2025 | 22 |
| Election News Digest: December 2 Mandela Barnes jumps into crowded race for Wisconsin governor Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes launched his bid to replace retiring Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, joining an already crowded and competitive Democratic primary. Barnes, who lost a... |
cbastian | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| 'Fog of War'?: Hegseth, War Crimes and the DoD's 'Politicization Death Spiral': 'BradCast' 12/2/2025 Guest: Carrie A. Lee, civil-military relations expert, formerly of the U.S. Army War College Also: Trump pardons notorious cocaine trafficker... On today's BradCast: Things are now moving very quickly, it seems, in the story of our Defense Secretary... |
TheBradBlog | 12/02/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| DVD review: The Accountant 2 Did you know that there’s a whole wiki devoted to cataloguing firearms seen in movies and TV shows? I found it because I was looking to verify my assertion that there are multiple rifles reloaded in The Accountant 2. It’s one of those questions you... |
Alonso del Arte | 12/02/2025 | 9 |
| PWB Peeps Open Thread: Wonderful Animals | strawbale | 12/02/2025 | 24 |
| Nonfiction Views: Franklin the Turtle vs Hegseth, plus the week's notable new nonfiction Good evening, everyone. A little late posting this evening. This afternoon we had to say goodbye to out sweet kitty Charlie Brown. He was a wonderful companion, and we will miss him. There have been dozens of musicians who have pushed back and even... |
DebtorsPrison | 12/02/2025 | 12 |
| It's Neck and Neck in Tennessee 7 With 58% of the vote counted, Republican Matt Van Epps leads Democrat Aftyn Behn by 0.74% (47,288 to 46,585) Election Results: www.nytimes.com/... |
cbastian | 12/02/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| Contemporary Fiction Views: A newly translated Olga Tokarczuk work to savor This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ... |
bookgirl | 12/02/2025 | 10 |
| Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Tuesday, December 2, 2025 WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS... |
Nanny Ogg | 12/02/2025 | 255 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Pardon Me? www.patreon.com/keefknight
Purchase the 2026 Keefie Cartoon Calendar!
Keef on Substack!
Related |� Delirious president goes on ... |
keefknight | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| ‘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 |
| White to move and mate in two #752 - New Solar Flares
Two new active regions on the Sun's surface are now rotating into view.
Region 4294 emitted an M5.9 (R2-Moderate) solar flare on Friday.
Region 4299 emitted a 2x more energetic X1.9 (R3-Strong) ... |
AKALib | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hidden History: China's Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| The Recap: Noem’s racist ‘full travel ban’ idea, and how you’re funding Trump’s attack on media A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. How you’re paying for Trump’s latest attack on the media Journalists and media outlets are being shut out and targeted at record speed. Kristi... |
Daily Kos Staff | 12/02/2025 | 3 |
| Next Up: Blame the Survivors for Not Dying in Boat Bombing Secretary Hegseth and the Trump administration cannot seem to decide on who exactly to scapegoat for the murder of the two survivors of that boat bombing off the coast of Venezuela. Hegseth has scapegoated the Admiral who executed the Hegseth order.... |
jdanrothwel | 12/02/2025 | 5 |