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| 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.�
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Max Burns | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke' � 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 ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Caribbean Matters: The heinous boat bombings continue Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/06/2025 | 118 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Paine & Trmp … the Treasury Department will give $1,000 to the accounts for children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028. Those accounts become the property of a child's guardian and "will track a stock index and allow for additional private contributions... |
gmoke | 12/05/2025 | 1 |
| Trump administration approves plan to export more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish populations and Delta and tribal communities in... |
Dan Bacher | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! Late Night Snark: Welcome to Our Banana Republic Edition "In the new Gallup poll, [Trump’s] approval rating is down to 36 percent with 60 percent disapproval. Trump's underwater in every category. According to a new YouGov poll, he's very unpopular... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/05/2025 | 163 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2025 | 172 |
| 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 |
| I THINK I AGREE WITH THE TN PROJECTIONS I have kept my mind open about what exactly happened in the TN special house election. I really did not want to make the statement that this is a bellwether but that has changed. We live in a small town on the Easternshore of Maryland. I will state... |
BlueCrabby | 12/05/2025 | 78 |
| 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 |
| Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ... |
Emily Singer | 12/05/2025 | 47 |
| Musings for Friday - Belle of the Ranch. A Voice of Clarity I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much given up watching any network news. I record Rachel, and occasionally watch Lawrence and maybe catch 30 minutes of Nicole out of her two hour show. So where do I stay informed? Multiple platforms and... |
TexDem | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/05/2025 | 1 |
| Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links... |
Mokurai | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Feeding America | boatsie | 12/04/2025 | 36 |
| 🕎✡️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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| House speaker to struggling Americans: 'Relax' The rising cost of living is squeezing Americans, with polls finding that roughly three-quarters say prices are higher than they were a year ago and that nearly half blame President Donald Trump for ... |
Emily Singer | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| PWB peeps ~ it's cold out there! Welcome to this afternoon’s PWB diary! Glad to have you join us for a few minutes of relaxing. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate it. So loosen your tie ( ... |
mayim | 12/04/2025 | 63 |
| Sean Duffy vows to make America smoggy again Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on CNBC on Thursday to defend the White House’s announcement that it would reverse fuel economy standards set during the former Biden administration. ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 114 |
| Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s strange. I take long walks to keep this 81-year-old body of mine in some kind of half-decent shape, and the truth is that you... |
TomDispatch | 12/04/2025 | 2 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! �
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David Waldman | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday Must-Seethe TV Stephen Colbert, who still has six months to tear into these idiots—and whose show has a good chance of outlasting Captain Cankles and his bloated carcass that short-circuits MRI machines—previews the reboot of a beloved 1960’s comedy...... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| The Epstein Class: the through line We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with... |
chloris creator | 12/04/2025 | 68 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Van Hollen & MD Dems call for Medicare For All
(and I'm a proud MD Dem) As a Bernie guy (I am too old to have ever been a Bernie Bro) and leader in Maryland’s chapter of Our Revolution, I get a lot of stick from my comrades-in-arms about my ongoing support for and my deep involvement in the Democratic Party. I am on the... |
FischFry | 12/03/2025 | 27 |
| Overnight News Digest: December 3, 2025 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, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
FarWestGirl | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 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 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday Just a quick note above the fold: Holy smokes, Batman. Behn’s MAGA opponent only won by a handful of points. In Tennessee. In a Trump +22 district. My, my, my, look at all those shiny blue arrows... No “conservative tears” in our mug this morning.... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/03/2025 | 148 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and... |
Meteor Blades | 12/02/2025 | 199 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/02/2025 | 73 |
| Top Comments: Seasonal 2025 Part I (Marking Time Til The Holiday) Edition It’s the most wonderful time of the year! OK, maybe not THE most, but it IS time for my annual seasonally-themed diaries. It’s been a tradition �since 2010, with topics ranging from music to ... |
brillig | 12/01/2025 | 10 |
| Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET!
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David Waldman | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday "The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/01/2025 | 130 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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