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Donald Trump is giving hypocrisy a bad name. His pardon of former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez has re-focused attention on his baseless contention that he is fighting the illegal drug trade. He has used this...

In September, TN Secretary of State Tre Hargett sent letters to the state's public libraries ordering them to review their children's books for LGBTQ themes or characters. His benchmark? Content the Trump administration deems harmful to kids. Tre ain't...

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I don’t know why folks are so suspicious but I actually do donations and distributions So stuff your doubts. This ain’t about me. Really there’s nothing I like more than taking care of people specially kids in need it makes me happy. That’s the only...

The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ...

When I get to stand in for the Jolly Old Elf himself, I do what I can to make everyone feel happy, welcome and special, no matter how they might otherwise be feeling in this hustle-bustle holiday world. I think I mostly succeed, but there are some kids...

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...

Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] basically ended the year like it began —�knocking on doors for another special ...

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Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives,...

My father as a Jew and a WWII Veteran would be appalled by the appointment of anyone admitting to a Nazi streak to any government position. And I am as well. Dad fortunately didn’t live to see this and dad was a moderate republican. I think he would be...

Of interest to folks here in the commonwealth, and to progressives elsewhere interested in the status of a primary against a progressive Senator which might have included a third, progressive, candidate…. It won’t. For those who haven’t been following...

The title was meant to be satirical, but as we know, satire is dead under his nibs. Then I remembered this from March: Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil- Whitehouse.gov Section 1. Findings. (a) The Tren de Aragua gang, a...

A Strategy for the Bosses The newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (NS), far from being a sober blueprint for safeguarding American interests, reads like a corporate memo: “What can the world deliver us, and how much can we take?” Under the...

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, ...

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...

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...

Comes now Donald Trump, defender of the Jewish people. By appealing or settling charges of antisemitism, he and his minions position themselves as dedicated public servants fighting to protect a besieged minority. The latest esteemed institution to...

Mystery drones attempt Zelensky intercept Live BBC feed final reports Salisbury nerve agent poisoning by Putin’s FSB. In today’s news the BBC reports on the “extremely reckless” Russian nerve agent poisoning attempt on Skripal father and daughter,...

Newsom unexpectedly validates Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders as the voices defining America’s future—and exposes the failures of neoliberal politics in the process. Newsom Echoes Progressives ...

Anybody seen The Daily Show’s “Cocaine News” featuring Don Jr.? Yeah, Hunter Biden was busted for lying about having used drugs when he bought a handgun once and lied about it on the permit application. How many Elephant Guns and automatic rifles does...

The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ...

With its sprawling, wide open spaces and energy-sucking communities, the US is tailor-made to support a thriving domestic solar industry. Other nations are not so lucky. Take Japan, for example. Japan is an island 25 times smaller than the US by land...

Will the Last Pastor in Babylon Please Turn Off the Lights? TL;DR In the last twenty years, church attendance in America has collapsed. Today only one in four Americans attend weekly services, while two‑thirds report seldom or never attending. Casual...

“Kill Them All”: Theme Song of Pete Hegseth and the tRump Admin (To the WWII Song "Bless Them All") - Kill Them All / Kill Them All / The long and the short and the tall - Kill all the fishermen in their little boats Call them all drug lords though...

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...

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Richard Wolff explains why Trump embraced tariffs and how nationalist capitalism signals U.S. economic decline. A powerful breakdown of globalization, China, and worker power. Dr. Richard Wolff Exposes Trump Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....

Though not considered to be film noir, which is one of my favourite genres, 1944's To Have and Have Not is one of my fav films from that period. Though it is considered to be derivative of Casablanca, that doesn't take much if anything away from it,...

I'm just going to shut up and let him speak for himself cuz he does it much better than I could.

Hey, Grandpa Trump— What day of the week is this?� � �� What is today’s date and year? Want a nap? What is wrong ...

People keep commenting that the sight of Trump snoozing through his ego-boosting cabinet meeting whilst his underlings compete to see who can slather his crack the most was like something out of an Armando Iannucci film, so I went ahead and made it....

“Humans are not rational animals, but rationalizing ones.” Trenz Pruca I. Introduction: America’s Favorite Fairy Tale America loves to pretend it came into the world already dressed for the costume ball—powdered wig straight, Declaration crisp as...

First the good news in monopoly www.levernews.com/… 12/3/2025 Youth hockey players at rinks associated with a corporate conglomerate can be immediately kicked off their team if any friends or family record their games, according to the current...

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According to Salesforce, every business should be using “artificial intelligence.” And that A.I. should of course be Agentforce from Salesforce. Without Agentforce, your business makes such ...

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 ...

Tonight’s selections from Television’s debut album, Marquee Moon . Originally published May 2022. They came, rewrote the book on guitar rock and then split up, leaving only a pair of seminal ...

SPOILER ALERT! Cast a Dark Shadow begins with a man and a woman in a car ride at an amusement park. They go through a dark interior where scary demons appear to jump up at them, the sort of ride a romantic couple might enjoy. The woman, whose name is...

My theory on defeating a Trump organization that seemingly only understands profit, especially for white folks, is to deny them that profit. Seemingly, the best way to defeat his PFA nonsense it to make it unprofitable, at least in the U.S. Until we...

“Trump’s Choices of Words Have Consequences”– Congratulations Indiana’s GOP State Senator Mike Bohacek for Finally Growing Some Spine! November 30, 2025 Many people have been absolutely astounded that Dictator/Demagogue Donald has been able to get away...

Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...

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Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America … Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, recently admonished the commoners in his own city that they should be “offering their humble and hearty thanks” to the super-rich, because,...

Gerrymandering isn’t the problem I don’t care how much gerrymandering is done, if US Citizens voted with their brains for their self-interests and for people’s rights over their own bigoted, racism, sexist, and other ism, gerrymandering wouldn’t stand...

So wrathful, so mighty is our First Felon, he’s blown a chunk of our regressively culled taxes to immolate a skiff that looked to be lugging a ‘cargo’ of 11 souls toward Suriname. (That is, DIRECTLY AWAY FROM US.) Which vessel he, Trump, paints...

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you...

As you probably know, Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but became President due to the Electoral College. As you probably also know, Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, but became President due to the Electoral College. There is a way to fix the...

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...