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Veterans Car Show: Plymouths and Dodges (photo diary)
Shown below are some of the Plymouths and Dodges in the 2025 40et8 Annual Labor Day Car Show in Vancouver, Washington.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Museums 401: Washing Machines (photo diary)
We don’t know for sure how long humans have been� wearing clothes. But we can be certain that sometime after clothing was “invented” the need to wash or clean clothes to rid them of dirt, ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Museum of Work: Axes and other sharp things (photo diary)
The Montana Museum of Work History in Wye, Montana is located in a store with exhibits high on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. The museum, located in the Axmen store, has exhibits featuring ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
📚 The Inoculation Project 12/7/2025: Science in Texas and Montana
This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. �We hope that ...
belinda ridgewood 12/09/2025 1
Hall of World War II: Pearl Harbor (museum exhibit)
The Hall of World War II in the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon is a huge exhibit showing World War II in models. One exhibit shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 184
Hello, my sanity-starved friends!
belinda ridgewood 12/09/2025 1
📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII
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 ...
nomandates 12/06/2025 7
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/6/25
it’s been a�busy couple weeks here at casa del plumber...TLO married...grandma getting a new knee. very well could be at the hospital when this is posted...but will be checking in regardless “...
Glen The Plumber 12/06/2025 58
This Week in the War on Women: Open Thread
Open thread this week. Please put links in comments. Anytime you hit a paywall on articles linked in diaries or comments (or anywhere online) try using   Archive.Today   to see if you can get free ...
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker 12/06/2025 31
WYFP: Open Thread
Another fun week in my building, Wednesday night I went to bed about 9pm and immediately I hear my neighbors out in the hall talking about “how to get in”. Those weren’t the words they used but, on past experience, that’s what the gist was. This has...
blueoregon 12/06/2025 5
What's For Dinner? v.20.23 -- Herring roe appetizer and dining in Fairbanks
With apologies in advance for almost turning this diary into a travelogue... I met Tanya on this site in 2013 when she wrote to me expressing her astonishment at our shared intimate knowledge of ...
Darryl House 12/06/2025 40
The Top Ten Reasons Why Donald Trump Received the FIFA Peace Prize
Trump Deserved It, Too! In case you missed this story. Trump was also up against some tough competition. The Top Ten Reasons Trump Deserved the FIFA Peace Prize #10 — For Trump’s Grace Under Pressure #9 — Well… Because #8 — Trump Likes Getting...
JekyllnHyde 12/06/2025 23
HHS and its brain-wormed boss 'deadnamed' former Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine
Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name. They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn...
annieli 12/06/2025 4
The quiet part out loud before Red States become Confederate States of America, Part Deux
You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at...
annieli 12/06/2025 21
Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for MLK day
Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed. In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according...
annieli 12/06/2025 12
Dahlias (photo diary 9)
Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon, hosts an Annual Dahlia Festival. The Festival features 50 acres of Dahlias. Dahlias were originally native to Mesoamerica where they were domesticated by ...
Ojibwa 12/06/2025 9
Samantha Fulnecky is the Riley Gaines of Charlie Kirks
A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an...
annieli 12/06/2025 98
ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.1059
Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting a new painting. It is a Grand Canyon scene. The photo that I'm using (My own from a recent visit.) is seen directly below. I'll be ...
boran2 12/06/2025 2
Tacky assisted living... when will Vance get TF off the couch and seek 25th Amendment solutions?
Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a...
annieli 12/06/2025 41
Four Reasons I Am Not Sweating the Supreme Court Texas Decision GNR
Before I get to this week’s good news (and there was a lot!) I want to talk about why I am not sweating SCOTUS’s awful decision to let Texas Gerrymandering stand. First, this SCOTUS is terrible and I only expect terrible from it. I keep my mental...
GoodNewsRoundup 12/06/2025 174
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,386: The White House has become Russia House annex again
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on December 4 to 5. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 137 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other strike drones, of which about 90 were Shaheds, from...
annieli 12/06/2025 37
Top Comments: Open Thread
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 ...
Chitown Kev 12/05/2025 6
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: RV life ahead, maybe, or just getting an apartment.
Venusian pasta and Martian waffles. How so easy it is to promote binary cognitive models that oppress entire populations using anachronistic�ideologies, because there’s always the promise of ...
annieli 12/05/2025 49
The 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine is more about Teddy Roosevelt
Sadly, Trump’s viewing of the Sicario movie sequel has not left his lizard brain. He confuses movies and reality. and he’s lazy Remember when he ordered the pardoning of J6 insurrectionists en masse because he simply got tired of looking at individual...
annieli 12/05/2025 4
Trump is awarded (soccer's) Peace Prize...That plus a dollar buys coffee
As FIFA Prez Gianni Infantino gave Trump a large gold-coloured trophy & a gold-coloured medal hanging from a blue ribbon, Trump responded, "This is truly one of the great honours of my life". Trump received an entirely made-up peace prize on Friday,...
annieli 12/05/2025 23
Meet Pete Hegseth, Drunken War Criminal — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #8)
Please Support Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” As you know, Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones is recovering from a stroke, but has started posting again on DK and...
JekyllnHyde 12/05/2025 47
Earth Matters: Fuel economy retreat feeds Trump's energy bonfire; plus a Stewart & Kolbert convo
Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from...
Meteor Blades 12/05/2025 30
Stonehenge Air Museum: C-47 and F-5 (photo diary)
Outside of the Stonehenge Air Museum in Ferndale, Montana, is a C-47 Skytrain and an F-5. The museum takes its name from the full-size replica of Stonehenge on the nearby private golf course. All of ...
Ojibwa 12/05/2025 5
What are you reading? December 5, 2025
In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books… I am reading: Obsession: The Life and ...
Chitown Kev 12/05/2025 32
How bad is the video of strike two? Will the 2026 election be GOP's strike three
Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral...
annieli 12/05/2025 50
GNR for Friday, December 5, 2025: Hope makes a difference
Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ...
chloris creator 12/05/2025 145
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 182
Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection.
belinda ridgewood 12/05/2025 35
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,385: Putin’s original war aims continue, despite the Alaska misadventure
Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 3 to 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea and...
annieli 12/04/2025 26
Top Comments: A Walk in the Woods edition
A user-friendly hike with old chums, after-the-jump ... But first : Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are ...
Ed Tracey 12/04/2025 7
Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Feeding America
boatsie 12/04/2025 36
Write On! Seasons Writings, or, the Advent of Winter
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...
dconrad 12/04/2025 56
Write-On Weekly Fiction Works in Progress (WIP) diary: A Busyness of Ferrets (DaKoWriMo)
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 ...
sagesource 12/04/2025 26
The Epstein Class: the through line
We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with...
chloris creator 12/04/2025 68
Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore
There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to...
Mokurai 12/04/2025 98
Top Comments: Open Thread
I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight. Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ...
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker 12/03/2025 7
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/3/25: Toxic Impunity
42 years ago today was the worst industrial disaster of all time. ….while killing off the ...
jck 12/03/2025 107
Community Needs List: Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Coffee Hour
Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour’s Helping Humpday, where people wanting to lend a hand can connect with community members in need. Have a cuppa and join us.
Aashirs nani 12/03/2025 8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Top Comments: Seasonal 2025 Part I (Marking Time Til The Holiday) Edition
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! OK, maybe not THE most, but it IS time for my annual seasonally-themed diaries. It’s been a tradition �since 2010, with topics ranging from music to ...
brillig 12/01/2025 10
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 12.1.25
�I pay my electric and gas bills with a budget program called the Equal Payment Plan (EPP).� After a year of service, the companies�average out your monthly payments. I’ve done this for years and ...
ZenTrainer 12/01/2025 102

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