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| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 10th, 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 | 12/10/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 9th, 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 | 12/09/2025 | 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 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 184 Hello, my sanity-starved friends! |
belinda ridgewood | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| US government removes critical report addressing trafficking epidemic of Indigenous peoples The disappearance of a federally mandated report to address high numbers of Indigenous deaths, disappearances, and trafficking has exposed a deeper setback. The administration has reduced a national ... |
FreedomUnited | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| New Day Cafe: Things That Appeal, But Are Not Bananas Good morning, Newdists!� Aren’t you lot cold, going around all Newd and such?� Get yer clothes on, grab a cuppa and warm up with us for a bit! |
The Marti | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 8th, 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 | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 7th, 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 | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 185 | ZenTrainer | 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 |
| 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 |
| Has Trump Already Pardoned the DC Pipe Bomber? It has been nearly five years since Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection against the United States, exhorting his MAGA cult followers to storm the Capitol in order to undermine democracy and retain his authoritarian grip on power. On that day... |
News Corpse | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| 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 |
| Smoke on the Water: Fire in His Lies 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... |
Inspector Clueso | 12/06/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Caturday Pootie Diary: HELPING I sat on the floor, surrounded by unwrapped gifts. I took stock. Wrapping paper? Check. Scissors? Check. Tape? I picked up the tape and held it in the air. “Check,” I said.
“Check what?” ... |
Flowergirl77 | 12/06/2025 | 93 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe - Saturday: Birds, Fishes, Flowers & Waters. Oh My! Good morning, beloved Newdists. I’ve spent the whole week guzzling soup and sleeping, and occasionally reading abject trash as a palate cleanser. It’s mostly worked. In fact, has helped prodigiously. I’m even feeling human, instead of feeling like wet... |
Crimson Quillfeather | 12/06/2025 | 138 |
| Vampire Billionaire Attacks Pope Shortly after American-born Robert Prevost was elected Pope, J.D. Vance and his wife stopped in to visit with the new pontiff. In addition to a Chicago Bears shirt, Vance brought the American Pope two books by St. Augustine. This gift represented a... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2025 | 217 |
| 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 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's approval slide continues apace New York Times:
Trump’s Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour
The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump’s approval rating. |
Greg Dworkin | 12/06/2025 | 338 |
| 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 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183 | ZenTrainer | 12/06/2025 | 26 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 6th, 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 | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| Not My Daddy, Just an Airbnb Guest Trump isn’t anyone’s daddy — he’s just a temporary tenant with borrowed keys. The presidency isn’t a family title, and the White House isn’t his forever home. He’s basically a short-term Airbnb guest with delusions of royalty, mistaking a... |
bison | 12/05/2025 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Friday Night Beer Blog Happy Friday beer fans!�
Big thanks to 3CM for writing last week!
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This week in my countdown of Barstool Mountain’s Top 100 Drinking Songs :
#83 — � Good Old Mountain Dew - Grandpa ... |
esquimaux | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| FUN FACT: Donald Trump is the First Rapist to Win the FIFA Peace Prize! So, now that we’ve entered the Daily Televised Nap phase of the Thousand Year Reich, I was thinking it’s probably time for that difficult talk about taking the keys to the death cult away from grandpa. No? Well, then, I suppose we may as well launch... |
ShowerCap | 12/05/2025 | 71 |
| 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 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2025 | 172 |
| Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democratic Plan to Add 12 New Supreme Court Justices - That Doesn't Exist The frequency with which Donald Trump deliberately lies in order to keep his glassy-eyed flock of MAGA disciples both dumbed down and fired up is really pretty impressive. It's a machine gun style of disseminating disinformation that his fellow... |
News Corpse | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| Street Prophets Friday: Castle Malbork, Poland, Part II (open thread/photo diary) Greetings and welcome to another wee bit of open-threaded fluff. This week I'll be continuing my series of diaries featuring photos from my Summer trip to Poland with part two of my tour of Castle ... |
Marko the Werelynx | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| 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 |
| Texas Canvass Wrapup
Our final state wrapup�for the year. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to �Texas in 2021, but skipped a year because of the existing organizing groups in the state.� Turned out� |
snowbored | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| Musings for Friday - Belle of the Ranch. A Voice of Clarity I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much given up watching any network news. I record Rachel, and occasionally watch Lawrence and maybe catch 30 minutes of Nicole out of her two hour show. So where do I stay informed? Multiple platforms and... |
TexDem | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| New Day CAfé: In the Soup Does the weather have you craving soup? It does me. Here are some that look tasty.
Greek Beef & Barley Soup
Recipe. �[3:46]
... |
Youffraita | 12/05/2025 | 165 |
| 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 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump losing both independents and his own voters POLITICO :
Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis
Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/05/2025 | 404 |
| Overnight News Digest Dec. 4, 2025, Oops I forgot top put it in the Q I finished the benches tonight! 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,... |
eeff | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 182 Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection. |
belinda ridgewood | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 5th, 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 | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| IAN: December 5, 2025: Brain Break Happy Friday! For those that missed it yesterday, my chronic wound healed up finally, no more bi-weekly wound care appointments for me. That makes it less likely that I’ll have 2 or 3 appointments ... |
FloridaSNMOM | 12/04/2025 | 46 |
| 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 |
| Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built. Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 195 |
| THE TRUMP REGIME Wants to Take America Back - To the 1970s So They Can Buy Crappy Cars and Stuff One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the... |
News Corpse | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| "I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 93 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?" US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 33 |
| A CALL TO ACTION: The Trump White House Launches a 'Media Bias Offender Tipline' - Let's Use It! The battle against biased media is a continuing and exhausting ordeal during the administration of Donald Trump, who frequently refers to the press in Stalinist terms as "the enemy of the people." No American president has been more hostile toward the... |
News Corpse | 12/03/2025 | 27 |
| "We ended eight wars… I should get the Nobel prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy." “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.” Trump boasted Tuesday of ending eight wars during his administration, citing examples like a quick ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May after a... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| New Day Cafe: Whimsy Us A Thing Or Two Good morning, Cafe!� Grab a cuppa, snag yer whimsies, and join us for a bit!
All are welcome to join the fun, the silliness, the ... |
The Marti | 12/03/2025 | 208 |
| 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 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A weak Mike Johnson attacked by his own leadership team TN-07 comes in strong for Democrats. No upset, not strong enough to overcome a 22 point Trump district with the Republicans winning by single digits, but an excellent showing for Aftyn Behn (D) and an embarrassing one for Matt Van Epps (R). Good news... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/03/2025 | 276 |
