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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 anti-climate policies are driving up insurance costs for homeowners, say experts
Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits. By� Marcus Baram �for Capital & ...
Capital and Main 12/09/2025 0
Milton Friedman is Why Trump is About to Betray Ukraine
Bold statement, yes, but backed up by this Wall Street Journal article on the “peace negotiations” being run by Trump’s special envoy. � The take away from the article is that in exchange for ...
angryea 12/09/2025 1
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 184
Hello, my sanity-starved friends!
belinda ridgewood 12/09/2025 1
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by � Tony Schick ,� Oregon ...
ProPublica 12/09/2025 0
Cartoon: Naughty to nice list
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ...
Mike Luckovich 12/09/2025 0
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 185
ZenTrainer 12/09/2025 1
Behold the Pharaoh’s Pyramid Scheme East Wing—receptacle of tribute, sifter of the giftless.
The new east wing is being built from corporate profits to gain favor with the Pharaoh. It is something Jews understand, but where is Moses? The Pharaoh sits upon his gilded throne of money, chains and handcuffs as he directs the building and stocking...
iarnstein 12/06/2025 2
📚 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
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
Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay
Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. Conservatives have spent the last week ...
Oliver Willis 12/06/2025 45
Who is fooled by "totally made up" propaganda
This is about former Secy of State Hillary Clinton. A woman I voted for enthusiastically in 2016. A woman who I supported enthusiastically in 2008. As you may have inferred from that framework, I am not enthused by her recent remarks. Speaking at a...
SevenStrings 12/06/2025 11
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
We're Watching a Deranged Individual Occupying the American Presidency
Yesterday, as reported by many media outlets, the current sitting president of the United States, at the end of a 2hr meeting of his cabinet, said ranted the following, about Somali-Americans and any other Muslim-Americans generally, to gathered...
citixen 12/06/2025 11
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
The “Art-of-the-Deal” Foreign Policy: Trump's Extraction-First Strategy
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...
Shawn510 12/06/2025 14
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
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
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
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183
ZenTrainer 12/06/2025 26
Campaign of terror continues—hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria
In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. Based on past abductions like these, authorities presume the ...
FreedomUnited 12/06/2025 7
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day
Hope your week was a good one!
eeff 12/05/2025 25
Somali-American Trump voter just shocked to discover Trump thinks his kids are "garbage"
On Friday, CNN Law Enforcement correspondent Whitney Wild interviewed a Minneapolis man who said he and his neighbors "campaigned for" Trump. The man, Mohamed Ahmed, is a Somali-American who voted for Trump. Ergo, he should be happy that Trump won....
TheCriticalMind 12/05/2025 157
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
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
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
Nurses Must Strike – A Misogynist Government Aims to Take Away Their Professional Status
One feature of the Republican administration in Washington and Project 2025 is their apparent wish to demote people in “women’s professions”. They are stripping them of their professional status at work. New government student loan caps will increase...
pouncecafe 12/05/2025 12
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
IVH: Television / Marquee Moon
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 ...
Al Dorado 12/04/2025 7
🕎✡️Dmytro Klebanov-1st Symphony In Memoriam To The Martyrs of Babi Yar, Ukraine-US Premiere
Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...
Tippy and Dad 12/04/2025 35
Morning Open Thread Thursday December 4, theme: Naughty songs
Welcome to Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ...
Ozarkblue 12/04/2025 63
Steve Cropper, musician, 1941-2025
Steven Lee Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. You may not know his name, but you know his sound, from Dock on the Bay (which he co-wrote with Otis...
Rambler797 12/03/2025 72
IAN 12/3/25 - Music for Stargazing, Meditation, and Prayer - Part I
For todayâs music therapy, some simply beautiful poetry and compositions for contemplating the night sky, nature, and inward peace, for all religions, pagans, agnostics, and atheists: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Tippy and Dad 12/02/2025 23
Morning Open thread Tuesday December 2, songs with a female's name in the title
Welcome to � Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ...
Ozarkblue 12/02/2025 142
Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81
Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you�
Denise Oliver Velez 11/30/2025 135
Sunday Morning Open Thread with Music by Franz Schubert
Good morning, everyone. This morning’s artist is the Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Though he was only 31 when he died, he left a vast body of work. This diary only gives you three examples, ...
Ice Blue 11/30/2025 41
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