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📚 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
Sudan The Forgotten War(s).
The history of conflict in Sudan ...
rebel ga 12/06/2025 6
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
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
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
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
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
🕎✡️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
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James
A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...
KeithDB 12/04/2025 148
The village of Mammoth Hot Springs
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 16
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
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
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
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
Dickens and the Common Good
Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
otter54 12/02/2025 3
Poetry of Dorothy Parker.
Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page.
A Pagan in Arizona 12/02/2025 20
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
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
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun
dig for buried ...
strawbale 12/01/2025 18
Mutual Aid or as I say Community
Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of...
Smurf 12/01/2025 4
Street Prophets Open Thread
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today is a simple open thread. I’m away from my computer all day, so I could use some help in posting the community ...
linkage 12/01/2025 3
12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
enhydra lutris 12/01/2025 6
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
The 7 Deadly Sins of Facebook: How a Social Network De-evolved Into a Manipulation Machine
When I first heard about face book i joined because many of my friends had and it was a way to see what they were all up to. Then it became a place to share notices about my upcoming performances in the Singapore Slingers — A 1920s fox trot orchestra...
iarnstein 12/01/2025 53
📚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
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
Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour: The Mind of an Artist
Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour.� This is an open thread so grab something to drink and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have always said the most important person ...
michelewln 11/30/2025 3
Marine Toys For Tots. It's That Time. Need A Toy? Get A Toy. Or, Give A Toy.
💚The Hero's Journey - Happy Birthday Marines Nov 10th💚 Marine Toys For Tots Need Toys? Get Toys Applying For Toys - About Marine Toys For Tots Find Your Local Marine Toys for Tots Chapter To request a toy; submit your application with...
rebel ga 11/30/2025 3

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