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2023-10-20 15:22:04
An Ear for Music
A group to share and explore many different genres of music: folk, classical, pop, country, oldies, world. Sometimes the selections focus on a political subject - as music often does. Mostly it's just showcasing good music of all sorts.
 2025-12-06 11:28:45
Backyard Bird Racers
The Daily Kos Backyard Science Yardbird Race is a birding competition where, over the course of one year, participants strive to identify the most bird species - by sight and/or by sound - from the confines of their yards. Everyone who is participating in the race will be an editor of the group, which will be a place for announcements about tallies, as well as a place where everyone can access the information that we've all gathered over the year.
 2025-10-18 13:00:05
Backyard Science
Phenology is a science that anyone can practice without a lab coat, microscope, or PhD. It's the study of seasonal events such as first flowers, appearance of certain butterflies, etc. People have tracked these dates for decades -- even centuries -- and now there's a place on DK to record your own observations. A casual spot to tell what you're seeing in the park down the road or in your own back yard.
 2025-12-06 15:00:07
Barriers and Bridges
Created to facilitate conversations about race and racism. We invite people to share their personal experiences and perspectives. We will also be providing links to interesting articles and teaching tools. We plan to republish relevant posts from other groups and writers at Daily Kos.
 2025-12-06 14:23:04
Birds and Birdwatching
Birdwatchers, birders, and anyone else who just wants to learn. If you're interested in reading and commenting in posts from this, please just click on the "follow" link. We'll only be inviting people to "join" the group if they post diaries related to birds.
2025-11-30 14:08:41
Black Kos community
Black Kos community group. This group publishes diaries that cover a broad range of topics including black history, the arts, politics, and the culture of peoples of African descent worldwide.
2025-12-06 14:22:30
Bob's Picture of the Day
Sharing a daily photograph that I took either with my iPhone or Nikon.
2025-12-10 08:00:03
Climate Action Hub
We've run out of time! A group dedicated to promoting news about the climate crisis.
 2025-12-06 00:46:16
Climate Change Anxiety Support Group
Climate Change Anxiety Support Group (A nonpartisan group in Kosability) Experts call it "climate grief-depression, anxiety and mourning over climate change. According to a Yale ,a survey taken this year, anxiety is rising in the U.S. over the climate. Sixty-two percent of people surveyed said they were at least somewhat worried about the climate, up from 49 percent in 2010. The rate of those who described themselves very worried was 21 percent, about double the rate of a similar study in 2015....
 2025-12-05 12:01:12
Climate Change SOS
Launched in 2012 to promote engagement and provide information on climate change.
2025-12-05 12:01:12
Climate Hawks
Climate matters. We vote.
2025-12-06 22:04:15
Climate/Environment Fight
Inspired by Governor Jay Inslee who prioritizes defeating climate change first and foremost, this group embraces his positive message that the same Americans who put humankind on the moon can defeat climate change and thrive while doing it. As the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, we accept the mantle of being the last generation who can defeat it. FACEBOOK :https://m.facebook.com/InsleeClimate-First-346799152621048/
 2025-12-06 08:36:01
ClimateBrief
The writers in Climate Brief work to keep the Daily Kos community informed and engaged with breaking news about the climate crisis around the world while providing inspiring stories of environmental heroes, opportunities for direct engagement, and perspectives on the intersection of climate activism with spirituality, politics, and the arts.
 2025-12-05 17:24:40
Community Contributors Team
This group features content written by participants in the Daily Kos Community Contributors program. Group Logo by Myriams-Fotos, via Pixabay
 2024-08-11 12:59:18
Community Spotlight
Community Spotlight is dedicated to finding great writing by little-known or unknown Community members whose work hasn't gotten the visibility it deserves. We rescue and promote their stories based on the original vision set out by Susan Gardner, who single-handedly began our mission in 2006.
 2025-12-06 15:00:07
Covid19 State by State
A temporary group to aggregate diaries by anyone who wishes to contribute informative pieces based on FACTS only. Reports are to be dependent on statistics from health departments, newspaper articles, and media originating with government and health OFFICIALS. Opinions and anecdotes will be welcome in comments. The duration of the Group will be throughout the duration of the pandemic in the USA.
2022-02-12 21:00:48
Covid19 support group on Daily Kos
Covid19 support group on Daily Kos This group provides a forum for those seeking and those wishing to provide - information, help and support on the Coronavirus. If you are feeling stressed out, if you want to share your experiences about the disease, if you seek or want to provide practical knowledge on how to protect yourself and others from the virus, if you want to share knowledge on dealing with isolation and loneliness, please visit these diaries and contribute. This is not a forum to deb...
 2025-09-12 18:18:08
Cranky Users
The Cranky Users group was founded in 2011 for DKos users who thought DK4 was scary or weird or hard to figure out. We made our way through DK4 and DK5, and now we're back! We're still gonna hold hands, help each other out, ask dumb questions, and laugh ourselves silly, this time as we navigate the jump to WordPress. Follow the group or the #CrankyUsers tag.
 2025-11-19 17:39:11
Cyber Warfare Footing
A group to voice our concerns about the America's defense preparedness against cyber warfare. Lets talk about how it is done and how to defend democracy from its destructive effects.
2025-05-19 14:12:45
Daily Kos Announcements
Official Blog of Meta Stuff You Might Want To Know About Happenings At Daily Kos. Infrequent but important postings. Managed by staff.
 2025-07-30 21:38:19
Daily Kos Elections
Daily Kos's official elections vertical.
 2024-08-19 12:00:02
Daily Kos Emerging Fellows
Tune in here to catch all the work from writers in the Daily Kos Emerging Fellows Program
 2023-01-10 13:59:02
Daily Kos Oregon
A community blog for Beaver State politics. Have something to say? We are open to all. Just click 'MESSAGES' to ask to be granted the ability to post here.
2025-01-04 01:32:57
Daily Kos Science
 2018-12-10 12:49:32
Daily Kos Social
Group created for the social media team at Daily Kos
2025-12-05 20:22:40
DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY
This is being set up to facilitate the much richer group in DK3 and with respect to all those who worked under its banner there. I just want to compel myself to take a greater role in its community and am happy to hand over administrative duties to those with greater investment in its history {annieli}
 2025-12-06 14:39:17
Daily Kos Weather Center
A group for forecasting the weather, discussing the weather, delivering current and useful information during weather emergencies for the US and around the world. January 30th 2016 Launch Date hopefully. While this is going to be primarily a weather forecasting group, topics of a geological nature are also welcome, as well as documenting our changing planetary climate.
2025-08-17 01:57:16
DK Fans of 90 for 90
Voter registration and getting out the vote (GOTV) are critical to positive change in legislative bodies, from the very local level to the national level. Dr. Fergie Reid, Jr., and Brenda Hill started a movement in Virginia called 90 for 90, in honor of and inspired by Dr. Fergie Reid, Sr., who was the first black person elected to the Virginia legislature since Reconstruction, who served there for many years with distinction, and who recently turned 90 yea...
 2025-12-06 22:04:32
DK Geezers & Sustainable Senior Living
Sustainable living in the U.S.A. for Orange geezers, and all topics of particular geezer-age interest.
 2025-12-04 03:35:44
DK GreenRoots
DK GR is a forum for advocacy, education and discussion of all environmental issues, including climate change, eco justice and environmental racism, conservation of natural resources and wildlife, energy, environmental degradation, human health, pollution, water resources, resource depletion and biodiversity.
2025-12-06 03:17:15
DK Immigration
Immigration
2025-12-04 19:59:18
DK5 Trouble Reports
Founded March 2021 for reblogging and conserving community diaries about system flaws and problems, working in tandem with the community problem-solving groups such as DK5 Workarounds and the site tech staff groups such as Daily Kos Annou...
 2025-11-19 17:40:36
DK5 Workarounds
We explore the tools of DK5, find workarounds, share, discuss, demonstrate, learn, practice, and make mistakes. We empower members of the community to connect, unite, and act. Current project: Exploration of Sig Lines: Concepts, design, storage, and placement.
2025-10-10 02:08:07
DKOMA
Music and Arts forum and archive at Daily Kos. Arts are essential and evolutionary.
2025-12-07 02:37:24
EcoJustice
The EcoJustice series discusses environmental justice: the disproportionate impacts on human health and all living things as a result of climate change, extreme weather, and pollution. A key focus of our writing is the environmental impacts on minority communities in countries around the world. A key tenet of Environmental Justice is that all living things have a right to clean, healthy and sustainable communities. Today, the concept of Environmental Justice extends to include such related issu...
 2025-12-06 22:04:22
Evening Shade
We the people, recognizing the need to disparage, poke fun at, laugh at, ridicule and otherwise make light of the Republican party, its leadership and enablers do hereby pledge to write smack at every opportunity.
 2025-09-13 20:00:08
FreeWriters
A place for original writing that veers outside the more common DKos categories. Personal narrative, short story, poetry and more are welcome.
 2025-12-07 02:13:20
Friends of Gaia
This group is devoted to improving the reach of climate and biodiversity diaries
 2025-12-04 16:00:03
Genealogy and Family History Community
We are a Group interested in the research, analysis and discussion of genealogy and family histories, our own and others. We invite all those who desire guidance in getting started in their research, those who are looking for suggestions for getting past a problem in their on-going projects (brick walls), those willing to share resources, or those who simply want to talk about their projects (and we KNOW how family historians love to talk about their projects). All family backgrounds welcome an...
 2025-08-08 13:39:47
Good News
We aggregate good news in stories to build morale and to encourage more visibility for it. We focus on news (public events and information), not personal stories. We support the Good News Roundup which is posted by our team of authors 7 days a week at 7 a.m. ET.
2025-12-06 12:05:39
GreenRevolution A Direct Action Environmental Protest Group
(The future is NOW): The planet is now rapidly moving towards an uninhabitable future... But that future is NOW. Our leaders are not taking this crisis seriously, or taking action,and are thus failing us, and future generations, as well as planet Earth. The end of our present societies means the end of human and animal lives,and the potential death of planet Earth. We have little time left to alter our societies,governments,and to prevent this catastrophe happening. Our Methods: Uses of nonviol...
 2025-12-05 12:01:12
History for Kossacks
Once the name of a regularly-appearing series on DK3, History for Kossacks is now a DK4 group blog dedicated to the discussion and diarying of all things historical. Topics range from the impact of a'a' lava on ancient Hawaii to Zoroastrianism in Persia; time frame is from Australopithecus to Zulu hours today - so come on in to this dusty cave full of moldering tomes, have a seat in an overstuffed chair, and let's talk history!
2025-12-06 22:31:34
House of LIGHTS (Loving Inspiration, Giving Hope To Survivors)
House of LIGHTS (Loving Inspiration, Giving Hope To Survivors). A place for survivors of physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse, assaults, and bullying. A place for the people who support them. A quiet place for all voices to be heard. A safe place where we can learn to educate, support, and protect our children and each other.
2025-11-28 18:33:50
Hurricane Kos
A group devoted to covering hurricanes from formation to dissipation, and everywhere in between. Be sure to follow Severe Weather Liveblog for information on tornadoes or severe thunderstorms, as well as the severe weather caused by the remnants of tropical systems after landfall.
2024-09-25 17:43:30
IGTNT
I Got the News Today is intended to honor, respect, and remember the fallen, and to remind us that each casualty has family and friends who received the terrible news that their loved one has died at war. These memorial diaries are an important service to those who have died, and show our community's respect for our fallen brothers and sisters.
2023-06-12 09:18:38
In Support of Labor and Unions
A group devoted to tracking and fighting attacks on all workers and organized labor, and expanding unionization...
 2025-11-27 03:15:34
Infectious Information
A gathering spot for all information on infectious disease, both basic educational posts and breaking news updates.
2025-12-04 05:39:23
Itzl Alert Network
The weather is brutal. If it's not murderously hot, it's freezing cold, or flooding. There are tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards. Power goes out, and suddenly you're cut off. Beyond that, some of us have disabilities or illnesses that we're dealing with alone. It would be nice to know someone has our back. The Itzl Alert Network is a community where we can meet potential buddies in our geographic areas to check in on us if we aren't reporting in here, to make sure we're OK, and if s...
 2025-12-10 06:00:20
Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs
Ongoing coverage of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - From Day one onward.. Analysis, Translation, Expert Sources. 24x7 ongoing coverage.
2018-12-06 21:02:54
Kamp Kos
A community to discuss and share all things relating to camping. For anyone who loves spending nights in the great outdoors - in a hammock, tent, trailer, a VW van or an RV.
2025-01-26 21:41:34
Kitchen Table Kibitzing
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren't throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper.... Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well. Our kitchen opens nightly at 5:30PT/8:30ET.
2025-12-07 02:29:13
Kos Diabetes Group
This group is for diabetics or those with family, friends, or other loved ones who have diabetes. We will share info, recipes, and encouragement to help control our diabetes.
 2025-12-03 17:00:07
KosAbility
KosAbility meets the last Sunday of each month at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. We are a volunteer diarist community of, by & for people living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues. Our use of "disability" includes temporary as well as permanent health and medical conditions, from small, gnawing problems to major, life-threatening ones. Our use of "love someone" extends to cherish...
 2025-12-01 00:05:07
Koscadia
Koscadia Stretches from the coastal forests of Northern California up the coast West of the Cascades well into British Columbia where the Temperate Zone changes into the Subartic Zone. And of course we are inclusive of those East of the ranges as well. Where Progressivism and Democracy are a way of life.
 2025-12-06 16:05:40
LatinoKos
LatinoKos is a community for the discussion of Latino politics, history, and cultures here in the US, in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is no "singular" Latino/a community in the US. Latinos/Hispanics who are the nation's largest minority group, will according to census projections make up 29% of the U.S. population in 2050. As Democrats we need to focus more attention on these communities and the issues that affect them.
 2025-12-06 14:22:42
Masks for the People
This group blog is a place to share information about making face masks to protect people from COVID-19, charity needs for masks, tips about wearing masks, and more.
2022-12-20 22:14:21
Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health Awareness is a group for promoting greater understanding of mental health issues. Personal stories about mental illness, research or opinion pieces related to the mental health field, information on ethical dilemmas in treatment, diaries regarding legislation that affect the field, articles of note in psychology and psychiatry, and any other perspectives which raise awareness about mental illness or demonstrate the importance of highlighting mental health concerns are all welcome....
 2023-05-12 23:16:14
MOT - Morning Open Thread
Specialists in Jibber Jabber and threading. Copyright Restrictions on Morning Open Thread Posts of this Group. Posts by Daily Kos staff is done under an open content license and republication is allowed without permission. By publishing on this site, non-staff community members implicitly grant rights to Daily Kos to publish on this site and republish on its affiliated outlets. Unless noted otherwise, all non-staff original content, by default, falls under an open content license. Original conte...
 2025-12-10 03:13:25
Netroots Radio
Kos Community Talk Radio. Of, By and For the Progressive Wing of the Blogosphere.
2020-07-27 03:47:53
New Day Cafe
A place to meet and greet the day. Join us for a morning of fun and conversation. Some serious...some silly....always good company! We are an open thread group. All are welcome.
2025-12-10 03:13:27
Nuts and Bolts The Guide to a Democratic Campaign
Nuts and Bolts will represent an outlook at Democratic campaigns with four main diaries a month, every Saturday on the heart of a campaign. Community Outreach, Data Services, Volunteer Training, Field Work, Staffing, Cost Sheets, Issue Management. 3 Diaries a month on the main issue, and the last Saturday of the Month: "Don't Do That!" Learn from our mistakes.
2023-01-13 14:08:38
Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir, for Fun & Progress
''Something familiar, something peculiar...'' from the 'pens' of kosaks, with a touch of originality, diversity, progressive outlook . . . our light and sometimes darker tales of life, myth, adventure, romance, nature, history, parody, society, pastiche, science fiction, epic poetry, lyrical saga, legend, ballad, cat&doggerel, satire, farce, fantasy, homage or mash-up of literature, familial or personal memory and musings, children's tales born of elsewhen or otherwhere, in prose or in ve...
 2025-11-30 22:00:37
Overnight News Digest
The Overnight News Digest is a nightly chronicle of the day's news. Each editor makes his or her own story selection for that day's digest and publishes the compilation typically around midnight Eastern time. Readers are encouraged to remark on the news of the day and contribute additional stories in the comments.
 2025-12-06 05:41:44
PacNW Kossacks
The Pacific Northwest and Daily Kos go together like geoduck, pinot noir, and apples. This group is for sharing news and views that affect Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and related areas.
2025-11-16 21:57:55
Pain Patient Empowerment
A group for people in pain and for people who support them. Mental, physical, and/or emotional pain and/or disability are all relevant topics for discussion. We are particularly concerned about the treatment of pain patients, which often involves treating patients like they're guilty (of drug addiction) until proven innocent. We are working on a Pain Patients' Bill of Rights, to become state and/or federal law. Meanwhile, meet here, make suggestions, share stories. Since this is a support group,...
 2025-12-04 03:35:55
PDX Metro
A Stumptown Metro Kossack Community.
 2025-11-16 21:58:16
Prism Reports
An independent and nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color. Accurate, fearless, ground-up reporting—because justice requires the full story. Follow us on Twitter @prismreports.
 2023-01-26 16:15:23
Protest Music

Protest and topical music including comedy. We're interested in the history of protest music, for instance labor songs, civil rights songs, anti war songs. We also feature contemporary protest music and we particularly want to hear your protest songs.

This is an open group. Please join and post your diaries. If you want to help manage the group message me and I'll make you a BlogEditor.

Of course Protest Music is on topic. But it doesn't have to be both. Protest or Music. Prote...

 2025-12-05 14:44:35
PWB Peeps
This is the group for the pooties, woozles, and birdies people and if you don't like them and don't see the purpose of us being here, please, do not bother us. Just remember what Nurse Kelley and Kos said - "Don't f**k with the pootie people." Started by the Pootie Queen triciawyse, who sadly left us too soon, now run by the Pootie Princess: The Marti. Long live all the pooties, and the woozles, and the birdheds, and their people too.
 2025-12-10 03:13:28
Readers and Book Lovers
Where readers, writers, bibliophiles, and lovers of all things literary find their favorite series and one-of-a-kind diaries, including "Bookflurries," "Write On!," and "Books So Bad They're Good." Plus newer series like "Indigo Kalliope," "Contemporary Fiction Views," "LGBT Literature," and "Books Go Boom!" We hope you'll visit Readers & Book Lovers for the same reasons you get together with a friend -- for the community of like-minded people who share your passion for the written word in all i...
 2025-12-07 02:12:38
Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet
We will meet the challenges of our times by fighting negativity and creating a more beautiful world. We know we are in a marathon, not a sprint, so we need to take care of ourselves to take care of our neighbors and our world. The Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet group is intended to joyfully embrace diversity and to care for the physical, mental, emotional, and cultural needs of all those who are building a better world. We are solutions focused.
 2025-12-06 22:06:38
Saturday Morning Garden Blogging
A Convocation of Those With Grimy Fingernails. Founded by Frankenoid in February, 2005.
 2025-12-06 14:00:10
Saturday Morning Home Repair
A weekly forum of advice and encouragement for Kossak DIYers repairing and improving their homes.
2025-08-18 01:32:53
Science Matters
A forum for pointing out and responding to the non-science and anti-science material that appears daily in the media. From simple mistakes and ancient astronaut foolishness, to deliberate obfuscation and assault on scientists, science is under attack and Science Matters is fighting back.
2025-11-21 18:39:27
SciTech
The SciTech group is dedicated to the exploration of Science and Technology. We welcome all diaries, essays, and discussions that teach or explain the wonders of the universe.
 2025-12-07 02:12:45
Sluts
The definition of SLUT seems now to be ANY WOMAN USING BIRTH CONTROL or ANY ONE CONCERNED AND FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (according to the GOP) FINE! We are sluts and PROUD OF IT As with "Slut Walks" we will own the word and take the power of the word away.
2025-09-07 05:30:42
SOS Puerto Rico
Awareness and action for the crisis in Puerto Rico.
2025-11-29 14:18:15
SpiritSisters
We are a group of women from all walks of life sharing our stories and discussing women's issues and rights with intersectionality to prevent erasure and preserve identities of all women. We are sisters in spirit, and we are taking back our narratives. Dominant culture narratives do not represent our lives; they elide, alter, and erase. We discuss the harms women experience when the dominant culture does not accurately consider, believe or hear women's voices. We will also celebrate the strengt...
 2025-08-18 18:51:49
The Grieving Room
The Grieving Room is a Monday evening series for those who are experiencing grief or loss. And diaries of those going through the loss of a person or pet, whether recent or long ago. Or yet to happen. And those that come to console because they too have gone through the fire. A safe space.
2025-10-27 02:31:43
The Inoculation Project
Solid science education is the best inoculation against ignorance. TIP is an ongoing, volunteer effort to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by crowdfunding science and math projects in red-state classrooms and libraries. We publish every Sunday morning, 10 AM ET.
2025-12-10 03:13:27
The Ukraine/War Updates
This is the full listing of the major articles/updates by kos, Mark Sumner, Barbara Morrill, and Hunter on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Daily Kos evening summary diaries are not included in this compilation.

The introductory Diary for this group is The Ukraine updates: A compilation (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/3/2114296/-The-Ukraine-updates-A-compilation). It is not part of this group, but I will, hopefully, keep it updated for reference whil...
 2025-02-20 23:38:05
This Week in the War on Women
This Week in the War on Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and to provide relevant links and stories.
 2025-12-07 01:00:06
Top Comments
The Top Comments diary series was begun on June 14, 2006. It published daily until January 2021 and now runs at 7pm Pacific time as often as we can make possible, generally Monday thru Friday. We aim to publish pointers to the best comments from the previous 24 hours, and also note which comments receive the most recs from users in that period. Please send your pointers to our "TopComments" gmail address (no space) or our internal dkosmail before 9:30pm eastern time daily.
 2025-12-06 03:02:43
Trolls
Troll diaries are great fun and do a great service to our community. The best should be preserved and the latest promoted for the greater lolz, TROLL HUNTERS WANTED: please message for membership.
2022-01-16 15:50:20
What Are You Working On?
This group is for all things hand-made, home-made, and creative in a variety of mediums. Some of them are even edible.
2025-12-01 01:55:30
What's for Dinner
A Saturday evening get-together where friends share recipes, talk about good food and help others answer culinary questions. Group founded by Cordelia Lear.
 2025-12-07 00:30:23
White Privilege Working Group
A group for anti-racist activists interested in discussing and producing learning materials about white privilege.
 2025-12-06 14:22:51
WYFP?
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here.
 2025-12-07 01:01:17
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