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Bob's Picture of the Day for December 10th, 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 12/10/2025 1
Bob's Picture of the Day for December 9th, 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 12/09/2025 1
Hall of World War II: Pearl Harbor (museum exhibit)
The Hall of World War II in the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon is a huge exhibit showing World War II in models. One exhibit shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Museums 401: Washing Machines (photo diary)
We don’t know for sure how long humans have been� wearing clothes. But we can be certain that sometime after clothing was “invented” the need to wash or clean clothes to rid them of dirt, ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Museum of Work: Axes and other sharp things (photo diary)
The Montana Museum of Work History in Wye, Montana is located in a store with exhibits high on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. The museum, located in the Axmen store, has exhibits featuring ...
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Veterans Car Show: Plymouths and Dodges (photo diary)
Shown below are some of the Plymouths and Dodges in the 2025 40et8 Annual Labor Day Car Show in Vancouver, Washington.
Ojibwa 12/09/2025 1
Cartoon: Okay, grandpa ... let's get you to bed
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Watch this Trump Cabinet meeting devolve into ass-kissing ...
Clay Jones 12/09/2025 1
📚 The Inoculation Project 12/7/2025: Science in Texas and Montana
This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. �We hope that ...
belinda ridgewood 12/09/2025 1
Milton Friedman is Why Trump is About to Betray Ukraine
Bold statement, yes, but backed up by this Wall Street Journal article on the “peace negotiations” being run by Trump’s special envoy. � The take away from the article is that in exchange for ...
angryea 12/09/2025 1
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
Bezos thinks big donation makes it okay to poison a lagoon
How many billionaires does it take to fill a lagoon with millions of gallons of industrial wastewater?� Apparently, just one.� Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has caused quite a stir in Florida’s ...
Alix Breeden 12/09/2025 0
Cartoon: Naughty to nice list
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ...
Mike Luckovich 12/09/2025 0
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by � Tony Schick ,� Oregon ...
ProPublica 12/09/2025 0
US government removes critical report addressing trafficking epidemic of Indigenous peoples
The disappearance of a federally mandated report to address high numbers of Indigenous deaths, disappearances, and trafficking has exposed a deeper setback. The administration has reduced a national ...
FreedomUnited 12/09/2025 1
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 184
Hello, my sanity-starved friends!
belinda ridgewood 12/09/2025 1
Cartoon: Pete's boats
A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ...
Tim Campbell 12/09/2025 1
Cartoon: Too tired for a third term
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?
Jack Ohman 12/09/2025 1
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
Even apparent war crimes won’t stop the GOP from defending Hegseth
Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans ...
Emily Singer 12/09/2025 0
New Day Cafe: Things That Appeal, But Are Not Bananas
Good morning, Newdists!� Aren’t you lot cold, going around all Newd and such?� Get yer clothes on, grab a cuppa and warm up with us for a bit!
The Marti 12/09/2025 1
What's For Dinner? v.20.23 -- Herring roe appetizer and dining in Fairbanks
With apologies in advance for almost turning this diary into a travelogue... I met Tanya on this site in 2013 when she wrote to me expressing her astonishment at our shared intimate knowledge of ...
Darryl House 12/06/2025 40
Cartoon: No survivors
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ...
Jack Ohman 12/06/2025 6
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
Dahlias (photo diary 9)
Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon, hosts an Annual Dahlia Festival. The Festival features 50 acres of Dahlias. Dahlias were originally native to Mesoamerica where they were domesticated by ...
Ojibwa 12/06/2025 9
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
Photo Diary: Crescent Lake, St Pete FL
Our winter birdie visitors are arriving. There are flocks of several species which spend the winter here at Crescent Lake Park. Some photos. Crescent ...
Lenny Flank 12/06/2025 6
Cartoon: A MAGA dilemma
A cartoon by David Horsey. Related |� Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message ...
David Horsey 12/06/2025 20
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
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
Top Comments: Open Thread
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most ...
Chitown Kev 12/05/2025 6
Star Trek open thread: A good reason for the bad guys to not shoot at escape pods
Whether or not the second boat strike was a war crime, there is no doubt that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R) is one evil bastard. Ordering a second strike to kill two men who couldn’t even ...
Alonso del Arte 12/05/2025 22
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
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
Cartoon: Leaked MRIs
Support � my � Patreon � for early access and exclusives. Follow me on � Mastodon ,� ...
BrianMcFadden 12/05/2025 9
Cartoon: I'm with stupid
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ...
Jack Ohman 12/05/2025 16
Trump tries to revoke all Biden pardons, orders and laws signed by autopen
This is a weird obsession of Drumphfs. He delusionally believes that Biden was so mentally addled while in office that he had no idea what laws, order or pardons were being issued in his name. He has therefore ordered that all documents signed by...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/05/2025 20
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
Cartoon: Under the rug
A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related |� Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as ...
Pedro Molina 12/05/2025 22
Stonehenge Air Museum: C-47 and F-5 (photo diary)
Outside of the Stonehenge Air Museum in Ferndale, Montana, is a C-47 Skytrain and an F-5. The museum takes its name from the full-size replica of Stonehenge on the nearby private golf course. All of ...
Ojibwa 12/05/2025 5
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
Cartoon: Dozy Don
A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?
Drew Sheneman 12/05/2025 24
Trump to Raise Tariffs On Venezuela to Fund War On Venezuela.
The title was meant to be satirical, but as we know, satire is dead under his nibs. Then I remembered this from March: Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil- Whitehouse.gov Section 1. Findings. (a) The Tren de Aragua gang, a...
LaFeminista 12/05/2025 8
Top Comments: A Walk in the Woods edition
A user-friendly hike with old chums, after-the-jump ... But first : Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are ...
Ed Tracey 12/04/2025 7
Cartoon: Con job president
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ...
Clay Jones 12/04/2025 15
Sloth, Incompetence, Hate, Greed, Hubris, Healthcare Cuts, and Food Costs Are Collapsing the GOP
When political archaeologists investigate the 2025 collapse of the GOP, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane will be used for a case study into why the Southwest turned blue. Tom Petty wasn’t thinking about Trump and Crane when he wrote Free Fallin’ but its lyrics...
EricAZ 12/04/2025 8
Cartoon: A stab, er, pat on the back
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged ...
Mike Luckovich 12/04/2025 11
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
Photo Diary: A Walk at Sunken Gardens
Sunken Gardens in St Pete FL is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon. They are always rotating plants in and out, so there is something blooming at every time of year. I come here at ...
Lenny Flank 12/04/2025 7
Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers
A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ...
Pedro Molina 12/04/2025 14
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
New Day Cafe - Fun With Street View
Some of the projects that I work on involve spending time on Google Street View. I marvel at how they’re able to stitch millions of images together to create an immersive view of the area ...
foresterbob 12/04/2025 174
Indians 101: Nobleman and Daughter (museum exhibition)
The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ...
Ojibwa 12/04/2025 1
Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug—When they came, did you speak up? Not me.
Two-Week Black-Friday Sale on signed Tom the Dancing Bug books! Get your loved ones a Holiday Six-Pak or a Super Fun Two-Pak! Info here . Please join the team that makes it possible for your ...
RubenBolling 12/04/2025 30
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
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
Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary)
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 4
A Little Google Fail - With Music
Time was you could type an equation into Das Gurgle and get and answer. Now, I haven’t done that in a long time since my iphone calculator is fine for my needs. But I decided on a whim to use the GoGoGoggle bar, and what I got was — not an answer....
dadadata 12/03/2025 8
Portland Art Museum: Spanish Colonial Art (museum exhibition)
The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon held an exhibition, Highest Heaven: Andean Art from the Elvin Duerst Bequest , featuring art from the Spanish viceregal or colonial period from 1521 ...
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 2
Cartoon: Trump's MRI
Low humor...
Hilmbrown 12/03/2025 7
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
Gaza: The Inverse Hotel California.
As the final verse of the song says Last thing I remember I was running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before "Relax," said the night man "We are programmed to receive You can check-out any time you like But you can...
LaFeminista 12/03/2025 7
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