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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Holiday Movies Years ago when we all watched the same TV channels, it seemed that all the shows and sports would go on hiatus between Thanksgiving and New Years. When VCRs and DVD players debuted, I began a movie ... |
lunasminion | 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 |
| Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour: Small Bites Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour. This is an open thread so grab something to drink and let us know what is new with you. With Christmas rapidly approaching I thought I would share some ... |
michelewln | 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 |
| Sunday Morning Open Thread with Snowy Music Good morning, folks. I don’t know if you have seen snow yet this season—or even if you typically�do—but I just came in from traipsing through about eight inches of�white stuff�when it’s ... |
Ice Blue | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 12/08 Open Thread - Diego Rivera's Birthday
Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886. He is probably best known for his murals and or being Frida Kahlo's husband. An assortment of his works, mostly parts of various murals can be found on ... |
enhydra lutris | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 185 | ZenTrainer | 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 |
| 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 |
| 📚 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Black poetry written in the shadows of the Scottsboro trials: Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, where politics meets up with religion, art, science, and life. Come in, have a cuppa, and join us. |
Aashirs nani | 12/06/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| This caller to our radio show has the recipe to defeat Trump. It's not protest only. Tom CZarnik, a member of the PDR Posse, called into our Politics Done Right morning show recently to detail what we need to do to defeat Trump and Trumpism.
Caller with a recipe to defeat Trump.
... |
Egberto Willies | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| Rattner Destroys Trump’s False Claims About Inflation, Tariffs, and Drug Prices Steve Rattner dismantles Trump’s lies about inflation, tariffs, and healthcare, exposing the economic fiction behind his political messaging. Rattner Destroys Trump Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio) Summary Rattner... |
Egberto Willies | 12/06/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Morning Open Thread, Saturday, December 6, theme: 'run' or 'running' songs Welcome to Morning Open Thread , a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, ... |
Ozarkblue | 12/06/2025 | 74 |
| 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 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183 | ZenTrainer | 12/06/2025 | 26 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day Hope your week was a good one! |
eeff | 12/05/2025 | 25 |
| Overnight News Digest 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, JeremyBloom, and doomandgloom. Alumni editors include (but not... |
annetteboardman | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ex-MAGA Activist Reveals the Fear Machine That Radicalized Millions—and How He Escaped He escaped MAGA after years inside. His apology reveals how fear, conspiracy, and isolation fuel the movement.
Ex-MAGA Activist Apologizes
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... |
Egberto Willies | 12/05/2025 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Newsom Echoes Progressives: Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders Shape the Future Democrats Need 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
... |
Egberto Willies | 12/05/2025 | 11 |
| Why Universal Prosperity Is Impossible Under Capitalism’s Exploitative Design This analysis uncovers the uncomfortable truth: capitalism cannot produce universal prosperity without exploiting workers worldwide. Universal Prosperity Is Impossible Under Capitalism Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio)... |
Egberto Willies | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe - Fun With Street View Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ... |
foresterbob | 12/04/2025 | 174 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh? |
The Marti | 12/02/2025 | 147 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe: Piers Faccini and Balake Sissoko Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ... |
samanthab | 12/01/2025 | 151 |
| Morning Open Thread: There Will Be Dancing At My Funeral ________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life... |
officebss | 12/01/2025 | 67 |
| Kitchen table Kibitzing November 30, 2025
Sleep
Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ... |
side pocket | 11/30/2025 | 90 |
| 📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️🌈; We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ... |
Clio2 | 11/30/2025 | 11 |
| New Day Cafe: Beanspiration (pt. 2) Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration.
In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ... |
Chrislove | 11/30/2025 | 250 |
| 📚 The Inoculation Project 11/30/2025: Texas Border and Blackfeet Nation This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school... |
belinda ridgewood | 11/30/2025 | 12 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Guard commanders sounded the warning, but the DOJ called it 'speculative' Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list:
Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ... |
Dartagnan | 11/29/2025 | 118 |
| What's For Dinner? v20.22 - Singapore Noodles
I’m recycling old recipes again. This is probably my favorite recipe that I found here on dKos.�I love pretty much any kind of noodle dish, but these are awesome.
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Singapore Noodles
from� ... |
esquimaux | 11/29/2025 | 57 |
