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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...

More war crimes and atrocities, funded and enabled by our tax dollars. From Reuters: The United Nations children's agency said on Friday that at least 67 children have been killed in what it called conflict-related incidents since the ceasefire went...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

“Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil society is not dedicated to that end what else could...

Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most ...

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...

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,...

Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of...

This is the 3rd 4th in a series. The first two three were: Origami therapy. Part 1 Origami II Origami Basics I threatened to do a series of origami posts and by gum I’m gonna. i think it’s magical to take a 2 dimensional sheet of paper and watch it...

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...

Recreating obsolete technology.� A nerd journey.� � Vanity mirrors have a curve to them.� It allows you to see yourself bigger than you are.� Ideal for grooming.� Three thousand years ago everyone ...

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...

There is no legal difference between pirates that attack ships in international waters and the U.S. Military attacks on motor boats on the high seas. The comment "if they are part of the drug trade, they deserve to be killed" or something like it is...

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 ...

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...

TDS is just an excuse used by Trumplicans to discredit and demean those who actually care about what is happening - and about someone other than themselves. Yes, Trump lives in my brain, rent free. Yes, I’m constantly obsessing about his criminal...

The Price of Blood: How the "Corrupt Administration of the Big Orange Gorilla and His Clique of Greedy, Brain-Dead Morons" Chose to Let the World's Children Die The figures, cold and implacable, have just been released. For the first time this century,...

“The only country that a corporation has allegiance to is its own management.” Trenz Pruca When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization and Mercantilism Can Go a Long Way — 2025 Update In 2012, I wrote that Argentina and...

*** As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild ...

Ok. What are the odds? this cannot be a coincidence! it’s a sign. umm. yes that’s it! Not sure what of but it better be good!

I guess if you unite the world in hating him, Trump is uniting the world. FIFA is demonstrating how fundamentally corrupt it is by awarding a “peace prize” to Trump. I really want to watch the World Cup next year, but FIFA is making it very very...

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 ...

Affordability. Granted, that 6-syllable juggernaut amounts to a polite way of broaching the human costs of decades of governance of/by/for the have-mores. But still. At least the term resonates with countless GOP-ravaged (and potentially enraged)...

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...

Just short take on how we can use ChatGTP to research important issues where accuracy is essential. During my wife’s 2.5 year nightmare with ovarian cancer, I spent hundreds of hours researching every procedure, medication, how any and all of the...

Okay, so this is a bit of a weird one, and just wanders off a bit, so you have been warned. The latests literary kerfuffle (and I will keep using this word until you admit its perfection) is about some poor person who said that they thought ambiguous...

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....

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

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… has hacked his social media accounts. It is the only truth possible. Autopen, 2028 — Make America Helveticagain! Thank You for Cleaning your Printheads of this MATTER!

What’s behind that kind of reasoning? What’s the deal?

A 2020 study by the International Center for Academic Integrity found that large minorities of college students are cheating. I’m not surprised: our system of for-profit education gives students, professors, and administrators every incentive to cheat...

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...

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 ...

As a child I never wrote to the North Pole hoping Santa would deliver my requests. I knew it was a long shot, but it seemed worth a try. As an adult I don’t keep To Do Lists, a Bucket List, a shopping list, or any other kind of list. But this year I...

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...

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Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour.� This is an open thread so grab something to drink and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have always said the most important person ...

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a...

In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) � will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and ...

As reported by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski yesterday, Whiskey Pete Hegseth didn’t always believe soldiers should obey unlawful orders. In fact, during a speech to a conservative cult in 2016, he said the very opposite: The US military “won’t follow unlawful...

Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal is accused of shooting two national guard soldiers in Washington DC and killing one of them. The trust of the government’s account is to highlight the evils of immigrants in our society particularly those coming...