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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
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
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
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
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
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
Movie Review: Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
SPOILER ALERT! Cast a Dark Shadow begins with a man and a woman in a car ride at an amusement park. They go through a dark interior where scary demons appear to jump up at them, the sort of ride a romantic couple might enjoy. The woman, whose name is...
disinterested spectator 12/06/2025 7
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
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
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
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
GNR for Friday, December 5, 2025: Hope makes a difference
Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Several other GNR authors have brought up a fairly study showing how important it is to have hope in our lives. Hereâs another article about it (Andy ...
chloris creator 12/05/2025 145
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
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
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
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
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
Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore
There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to...
Mokurai 12/04/2025 98
Top Comments: Open Thread
I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight. Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ...
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker 12/03/2025 7
Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary)
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 4
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
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
Need Some Early Holiday Cheer? Special Delivery! December 3rd Good News Roundup (GNR)
No matter what holiday people celebrate this time of year is usually celebrated. The days are getting super short and the harvest is in. For us Americans, Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror and ...
bilboteach 12/03/2025 88
Top Comments: Busy December Edition
This December is shaping up to be a really busy one for me. Tonight and next Tuesday, I am attending two hockey games. Weeknight games are rare for me now that my sister switched to a school in the ...
cohenzee 12/02/2025 8
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
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
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
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
House Dems Release Report on (Some of) the Felon's and His Families' Corruption
There is so much corruption and criming being done by the felon, the felon’s family,�and his cronies and minions. On top of it, he has pardon power, which means many of them are getting�away with ...
chloris creator 12/02/2025 66
artificial intelligence has Hallucinations ?
When I have time, I seek answers to the really hard questions.� I like research and explore knowledge where a whim leads me.� I challenged the internet with the task of identifying me by my youtube ...
CaptBLI 12/02/2025 33
GNR for December 2, 2025
Good Day, Gnuville! I hope you all had a pleasant Thanksgiving. 🥧🧡🍗 I’d like to open with this nice discussion about Thanksgiving by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. Something that really caught my interest and which...
niftywriter 12/02/2025 155
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
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
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
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
KosAbility: What do I write when I have nothing planned?
The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...
Besame 11/30/2025 27

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