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| 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 |
| Cartoon: Tick, tick, tick ... A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� 'Time is out’: Democrat rips GOP’s health care ... |
Clay Bennett | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Saturday, December 6, 2025 (Regional edition) WELCOME
TO THE EVENING SHADE
A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
AND EVEN MORE ... |
kraigo | 12/06/2025 | 190 |
| Another Saturday Night: Captain Jack will get you high tonight I’m a rookie when it comes to these diaries so I am not sure what themes have already been used and which ones haven’t. I don’t remember this one but it was probably used before. Hopefully it was long enough ago that y’all don’t mind doing it again.... |
quaoar | 12/06/2025 | 106 |
| Trump rages as Fox News guest says life under Trump will be "more unaffordable" than with Biden Trump ran on being younger, fitter, and smarter than Biden. He said he had the cure to all that ails the nation. And he would build a great America in six days before working even harder in the seventh — because unlike God, he didn't take days off. It... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/06/2025 | 28 |
| Another Great Example of the Corruption in The Media. Olivia Nuzzi Just Got Fired from Vanity Fair. For those not in the know, Olivia Nuzzi was a “reporter” for New York Magazine, and her beat was to cover politics, especially the 2024 Presidential Election. However, Nuzzi “fell in love” with RFK Jr., and the two carried on what might be called a... |
Merlin196360 | 12/06/2025 | 34 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mad Marjorie says that Trump was "furious" with her over the Epstein files during a phone call https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-trump-052955263.html "He was extremely angry at me," the Georgia Republican told '60 Minutes' in a preview of her first national interview since announcing plans to resign. In a preview... |
djbigf | 12/06/2025 | 10 |
| Cartoon: Off duty A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI? |
Clay Bennett | 12/06/2025 | 11 |
| Birthright citizenship and Scotus. Don't panic. Definitely. Naturalization rule are an enumerated congressional power. If you read the 14th amendment it is very clear that citizenship attaches at birth. Wong Kim Ark is very clear about the historical reasons that Birthright citizenship was the... |
HM2Viking | 12/06/2025 | 28 |
| 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 |
| Great APR Today by Greg Dworkin. However, Trump's Approval Numbers Are WORSE than Reported. NOTE: I thought about putting this into the comments of today APR, but it was too lengthy. Therefore, I decided to write a diary entry instead. Thanks for this morning’s APR. I would just add one thing. I understand that statisticians prefer to take in... |
Merlin196360 | 12/06/2025 | 51 |
| Today my opinion changed of U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva from a woman who eventually became of u.s. representative because of her birth, to a woman who is willing to stand up to the cruelty being dealt by the taco administration. it took bravery at a local eatery in tucson to stand face to face with i.c.e.... |
sbaustian | 12/06/2025 | 44 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: IAEA says Chernobyl needs urgent repairs Damage from Russian bombings to the Chernobyl site will require extensive repair. The containment building had already passed its supposed lifespan before the Russian attack. In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which... |
quaoar | 12/06/2025 | 37 |
| 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 |
| The Daily Bucket. Various valley fare. Fabulous Ferruginous. American Valley, Quincy, CA. Friday, Dec. 5, 2025
Quincy, CA
The afternoon was approaching 2:00 p.m.� Temperature had climbed all the way up to a sizzling 49 oF.� Bundle up, hop on the e-bike, go out “Hawk Alley”, see what�� |
funningforrest | 12/06/2025 | 24 |
| 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 |
| The upside-down world of MAGA Darnold Trump’s approval ratings have been dropping notably over the past year. But before you get too optimistic, please remember that there are folks out there who say that they don’t like the ... |
Perlinator | 12/06/2025 | 13 |
| CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country. |
bilboteach | 12/06/2025 | 49 |
| 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 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183 | ZenTrainer | 12/06/2025 | 26 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Friday, December 5, 2025
WELCOME
TO THE EVENING SHADE
A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
AND EVEN MORE ... |
Girasol | 12/05/2025 | 232 |
| 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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Drone strike damages Chechnya's iconic skyscraper Ukraine struck a prominent skyscraper in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. There are Chechen security offices in that building, which is pictured on the 50 ruble banknote, but the target might have been a nearby FSB office or Ramzan Kadyrov’s nearby... |
quaoar | 12/05/2025 | 118 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Daily Bucket: English Boom This Bucket takes you on a short walk we did a couple weeks ago on the northern tip of Camano Island. We’d had several days of rain, more like� gray skies with on and off�showers. On a forecasted ... |
BrownsBay | 12/05/2025 | 32 |
| 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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: 'We can't leave Ukraine alone with these guys' A Ukrainian drone takes out a Russian Mig-29 at a Crimean airfield. Behind the scenes European leader have had their fill of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Incompetents. They need to start saying some of these things publicly. Maybe Ukraine could... |
quaoar | 12/04/2025 | 91 |
| Daily Bucket: Birdwing Grasshoppers
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 37 |
| Cartoon: GUGU GAGA, MAGA sobs “MAMA! : The TACO ruint my FUN” :-( NBF & Buynott! Cartoon: GUGU GAGA, MAGA sobs MAMA! : “The TACO ruint my FUN” :-( NBF & Buynott! As the monster they’ve loosed on America, turns its lustful, graft sharpened teeth on them, MAGA no longer gets their ‘rocks off’ watching others suffer. But this level of... |
mikeymikey | 12/04/2025 | 19 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets a refinery in Tambov Ukraine struck the oil refinery in the Tambov region, which is about 420 km southeast of Moscow. A section of the Druzhba pipeline was destroyed by Ukraine. Russia hit this church in Kostiantynivka. All those fiber-optic cables laying around came in... |
quaoar | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| 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 |
| ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: "Meat Assaults" Not Working So Russian "Special Forces" to Pokrovsk News came yesterday that after throwing a legion of barely-trained Mobiki at the Ukrainian defenses on the Pokrovsky line, the Russian command has decided that is not working(fast enough?). They have to try something new because they’re : 'Crawling... |
Decimus | 12/02/2025 | 70 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Fixed it A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete ... |
Clay Bennett | 12/02/2025 | 25 |
| Hidden History: China's Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Another Russian tanker attacked in Black Sea A third oil tanker came under attack near the coast of Turkey. Two others were crippled in an earlier strike. Also, a fourth tanker has been slowly sinking off the coast of Senegal in West Africa. An update from the tanker off the coast of Senegal: 2/... |
quaoar | 12/02/2025 | 168 |
| Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ... |
Ojibwa | 12/02/2025 | 4 |
| The Daily Bucket: Friendly Seal shore-feeding November 30, 2025 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest The Harbor seals who live in my nearby bays sometimes employ a feeding strategy easily visible from shore. I call it shore-feeding since it depends on proximity to land. The seals are feeding on very... |
OceanDiver | 12/02/2025 | 38 |
| Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ... |
Mokurai | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| 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 |
| Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit) Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ... |
Ojibwa | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes a Russian naval weapons facility Ukraine sent drones to Dagestan to bomb the Dagdiesel torpedo factory on the Caspian Sea. A plethora of drones hitting Russian soldiers. Ukraine strikes a Russian bridge-laying vehicle. There is video of the evacuation of the shadow fleet tanker Kairos... |
quaoar | 12/01/2025 | 95 |
| Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit) The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ... |
Ojibwa | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| Daily Bucket: A Walk at Sawgrass Lake
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/01/2025 | 46 |
| A call for help from 10 Gems Greetings fellow Kossacks. I’m putting out a call for�help. 10 Gems is faltering as @eeff no longer has a desktop computer, @Colonel Nicholson can’t contribute anymore, and I have a severe ... |
OzPerspective | 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 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Will selling gold reserves save Russia's economy? Russia has been selling off some of its gold reserves to finance the war, but even that desperate move won’t work forever. Russia’s central bank has about 2,330 tons of gold in its reserves (worth about $300 billion) and the National Wealth Fund held... |
quaoar | 11/30/2025 | 133 |
| Cartoon: Just like Jesus would have wanted A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related |� How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and ... |
Clay Bennett | 11/30/2025 | 25 |
| ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE Clears Dobropilya. Pokrovsk Becomes New 'Chasiv Yar' Against Russia GOOD NEWS from the Pokrovsky-Dobropilya direction. Remember the alarm back in August 2025 when Russia surprised and made a bee line towards Dobropilya in the hopes of creating a northern pincer against Pokrovsk as well as drive a wedge between Pokrovsk... |
Decimus | 11/29/2025 | 54 |
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