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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
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
Birthright citizenship - a logical conundrum
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a case that may redefine who is a citizen. The Trump executive order that is being challenged stated that children born on US soil to non-citizens are not US citizens, even though the 14th Amendment says they are....
liberaldad2 12/05/2025 23
Whiteness is a Myth
There is no such thing as “the white race.” (This is not to say white privilege isn’t real. White privilege is 100% real. White privilege is the purpose for which whiteness was invented in the 1600s in Virginia.) Right now you may be thinking: “What?”...
cai 12/05/2025 37
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
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
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
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
DVD review: The Accountant 2
Did you know that there’s a whole wiki devoted to cataloguing firearms seen in movies and TV shows? I found it because I was looking to verify my assertion that there are multiple rifles reloaded in The Accountant 2. It’s one of those questions you...
Alonso del Arte 12/02/2025 9
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
Is an “AI” Really “Intelligent”?
Don’t get me wrong. After some hesitation, I’ve taken to AI as a duck takes to water. I seldom use “normal” online searches anymore. Most “normal” online search results now appear in the order for which for-profit providers of goods or services have...
dratler 12/02/2025 83
Tired of being suckered by the latest email request, I created a political donation budget.
I’ve always dipped into my retirement income to donate to political campaigns. I give of my time as well, but haven’t attempted to quantify that. In past years, however, I found myself committing some of the cardinal sins of so many donors: giving on...
Blue Boomer 12/02/2025 9
No One Should Be Shocked: Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was
Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been...
bison 12/01/2025 29
World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum)
The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the...
sfbob 12/01/2025 17
For those grieving the death of a loved one when the world seems to be on fire.
“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...
Scott Janssen 12/01/2025 9
The Second Warning
When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...
sbanks 12/01/2025 247
Time to Stop Worshipping the Constitution
� � �The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford , which held that African Americans, ...
Matthew D Jones 12/01/2025 24
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
Scouting and the Military - Another Perspective
The story broke several days ago and NPR “U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces” wrote this in part: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting...
josterberg 11/30/2025 22
📚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
The best time to transition was years ago, the second best time is now
I came out as bisexual in 2009. It was hard, having been raised to believe that being queer was the worst thing you could be, worse than a murderer, a rapist or a pedophile, as gay people were automatically all 3. It was, I thought, the hardest thing I...
A Bleeding God 11/30/2025 27
The crudeness and cruelty are reminiscent of another time, another place...
conditioning As this administration violates norms nearly every day, what matters most is its consistency. Each new transgression adds to a body of anti-democratic moves that condition us to accept aberrance and become inured to it. What was once...
vjr7121 11/30/2025 12
Holiday shopping with my son. It’s a unique experience. Update: done!
UPDATE: Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 · 3:50:32 PM Eastern Standard Time · RandomNeuron Mission accomplished. No toes run over. Gifts found, cards purchased . Curious kid s seen. last gift purchased today. A coffee cup for a staff person who help care for him....
RandomNeuron 11/30/2025 11

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