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📚 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
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ is tarnishing fast
Republicans were forced on the defensive this week after a slew of new economic data confirmed what regular Americans already know: President Donald Trump’s economy is a mismanaged disaster.� ...
Max Burns 12/09/2025 0
📚 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
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
Exporting Trump's ignorance to allies who aren't buying
In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s ...
sabrina haake 12/06/2025 3
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, � Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!
justiceputnam 12/05/2025 1
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
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � No w Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Fridays! Starting off in the Bistro ...
justiceputnam 12/05/2025 1
The highly unstable idiot from Mar-a-Lardo attacks Swiss universities
A Necessary Clarification on Swiss Sovereignty in the Face of Imperialist Ambitions Since its foundation in 1291, Switzerland has been built in opposition to the dominant powers of the era, whether imperial, royal, or Napoleonic. Today, in the face of...
Swissman 12/05/2025 23
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
Holiday shopping boycott fights Trump with the power of the purse
A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ...
Capital and Main 12/05/2025 44
Morning Open Thread: Witch Burning - Mozart Dies - Joan Didion - AFL-CIO - Global Carbon Emissions
______________________________________________________ “The planet is sending warnings in the form of storms, heat, and extreme weather events. Our choice is to act or to be acted upon.” ― Victor Manan Nyambala Kenyan Supply Chain Expert...
officebss 12/05/2025 41
For-profit college education encourages cheating, hurts academic integrity
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...
Matthew Adarichev 12/04/2025 7
Cartoon: Con job president
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ...
Clay Jones 12/04/2025 15
Mad about the economy? Trump toady says you're just in a bad 'mood'
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was confronted on Fox News, of all places, with polling that shows most Americans have a negative view of the economy and blame it on President ...
Walter Einenkel 12/04/2025 82
In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump
Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump. The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...
Oliver Willis 12/04/2025 58
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thurs Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after calling Trump out at a stop in New York, California...
justiceputnam 12/04/2025 1
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials, Me tro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays! Starting off in the Bistro C ...
justiceputnam 12/04/2025 1
CARTOON: Affordability doesn’t mean anything
It’s the ECONOMY, stupid! TAKE ACTION Write, Email or CALL Capitol Switchboard (202) 224‑3121 to tell your elected officials to stop dropping sh*t on our cities. CLICK HERE to find your officials’ contact information. We must stand up and speak out,...
Power of One 12/04/2025 5
Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ...
kos 12/03/2025 118
Trump Policies Place U.S. Economy at Risk
Economist Paul Krugman and I are very worried. He titled a recent Substack post, “Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008,” the last time there was a global financial meltdown. Putting foxes in charge of the hen house is a recipe for economic disaster....
Alan Singer 12/03/2025 5
Vance promises to totally fix economy 'next year'
During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance argued that it was unfair to expect the Trump administration to address issues like affordability in the first 10 months of President Donald ...
Oliver Willis 12/03/2025 117
Commerce secretary has great excuse for Trump’s gruesome jobs numbers
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on CNBC on Wednesday, where he tried to massage Americans’ growing concerns over the economy. When asked by host Sara Eisen about the godawful jobs ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 83
Watch Trump’s treasury secretary get schooled on inflation numbers
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed by Andrew Sorkin Wednesday at The New York Times DealBook Summit. And when Bessent attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s poor inflation ...
Walter Einenkel 12/03/2025 71
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a panicked Trump ordered his MAGA Department of Justice to...
justiceputnam 12/03/2025 1
Small businesses suffer brutally under Trump
A new report released Wednesday shows that small businesses experienced a six-figure drop in employment in the month of November as millions of Americans struggle with a worsening economy under ...
Oliver Willis 12/03/2025 78
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � Smothered Benedict Wednesdays! ...
justiceputnam 12/03/2025 1
Device Hoarding, AI, Oligarchs, Affordability, And The End of the American Economy
Did you know that your refusal to purchase new devices is destroying the economy? It’s true, at least according to CNBC, the people who sell devices, and various economists. �The problem, you see,
angryea 12/03/2025 102
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
Do stories of the EU/UK Treasury dump plan bring a different crisis into view?
The EU/UK plan to dump US Treasuries if the US abandons Ukraine starts to hint a growing global risk — the lack of underlying ability to trust. We are seeing it develop but haven’t tied it to the one big risk — are currencies going to cease to...
tjlord 12/03/2025 23
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
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
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
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
Trump is cutting drug prices by infinity dollars, apparently
President Donald Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during his Cabinet meeting Tuesday. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims like cutting drug prices by 1,500% , his assessment of ...
Walter Einenkel 12/02/2025 91
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric...
justiceputnam 12/02/2025 1
TN 7th Congressional District: GOP Meltdown in the Special Election? (Updated with Results Links)
UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...
JekyllnHyde 12/02/2025 161
Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ...
Ojibwa 12/02/2025 4
Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit)
Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit)
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 ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
KosAbility: What do I write when I have nothing planned?
The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...
Besame 11/30/2025 27
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary)
Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 2
Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae
Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about....
Trenz Pruca 11/30/2025 10
A History of Murder on the High Seas: The Execution of Captain Heinz Eck
Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface....
KeithDB 11/30/2025 113
Museums 501: Sewing machines (photo diary)
Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 11
This Week in the War on Women, 11/23-29/25: Thanksgiving Week Open Thread
Many Native women promote�the true story of Thanksgiving:� Ramona Peters : The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving: After Squanto’s aid with corn and other planting, the pilgrims had a ...
elenacarlena 11/29/2025 58