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Sudan The Forgotten War(s).
The history of conflict in Sudan ...
rebel ga 12/06/2025 6
Jury-shopping with Jeanine, and abortion-pill liars get a pass
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. It’s another bleak week in the courts, ...
Lisa Needham 12/06/2025 10
Should we be panicking about birthright citizenship or not?
The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ...
Lisa Needham 12/06/2025 318
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
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
The World Cup sucks up to Trump, and it sucks
Remember when we learned in 2018 that the United States would host the 2026 World Cup along with Mexico and Canada? Back then, it seemed like an amazing opportunity to be part of an inherently ...
Lisa Needham 12/05/2025 156
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
Out of step: Trump breaks up with his ballroom architect
President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo. McCrery Architects, you’re fired.
Lisa Needham 12/05/2025 190
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
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
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
Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Feeding America
boatsie 12/04/2025 36
More kids are dying—thanks to Trump
For decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?” The Gates Foundation issued a ...
Lisa Needham 12/04/2025 47
This tech bro hopes Trump's boat bombings will bring big bucks
We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently ...
Lisa Needham 12/04/2025 55
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
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
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
Pam Bondi is pissing off Republicans by dodging Epstein files release
A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing on when, exactly, she’s going to get around ...
Lisa Needham 12/03/2025 75
Trump regime won’t stop trying to screw over another Comey
Earlier this year, Maureen Comey was abruptly—and, let’s face it, wrongly—terminated from her job as a federal prosecutor for the extreme misdeed of being former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter. It also probably didn’t help that she worked on the...
Lisa Needham 12/03/2025 28
Diabetes News: Medicare Price Cuts for Diabetes, Other Drugs
Medicare has just added another 15 drugs to the Medicare Maximum Fair Prices (MFPs) for prices that will take effect on January 1, 2027. The negotiations for these price cuts began under President ...
Mokurai 12/03/2025 2
Legal watchdogs won’t bite Trump’s corrupt pet lawyers
The Virginia State Bar is the latest watchdog to turn tail and run rather than deal with the crime spree that is President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. The bar, which theoretically ...
Lisa Needham 12/03/2025 59
How Trump’s DOJ is pushing the limits of the statute of limitations
As sure as the sun will rise, the Justice Department is going to figure out a way to reindict former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James—because why let a little ...
Lisa Needham 12/02/2025 57
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
California Canvass Wrapup: Resisting Trump's hostile takeover of our Democracy
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � circumvent� president felon’s hostile takeover of our Democracy.� It’s ...
snowbored 12/02/2025 2
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
Tomgram: William Astore, A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a...
TomDispatch 12/02/2025 2
Trump's EPA Just Approved What???
There are harmful administrative decisions that have immediate but reversable negative consequences. But what of decisions that are reversable in policy only – those whose effects will almost ...
announ 12/02/2025 116
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
Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today!
Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...
Brainwrap 12/02/2025 9
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
IAN: My Very Long Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend
I know,�you may be getting tired of the topic of Thanksgiving. But I had enough going on in my life during the last week, that I felt the need to share it. The little dog is named Itzl.
bigjacbigjacbigjac 12/01/2025 24
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun
dig for buried ...
strawbale 12/01/2025 18
Can things get any worse for Alina Habba?
How was your long holiday weekend? Nice? A good time to chill with friends and family, right?� Well, what if the day before your four-day vacation kicked off, you found out that you and your boss ...
Lisa Needham 12/01/2025 96
Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?
President Donald Trump is pretty sure he just had the most perfect MRI of all time , but he can’t quite seem to remember what part of his most perfect body was scanned.� This, of course, raises ...
Lisa Needham 12/01/2025 148
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russification of America
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you...
TomDispatch 12/01/2025 1
Congress coddles the Supreme Court—all other judges get screwed
Lower court judges who rule against the Trump administration have faced a staggering increase in threats, often fueled by President Donald Trump. But thankfully, a huge boost in security funding was ...
Lisa Needham 12/01/2025 14
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
Vegan Christmas Feasts
The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ...
Mokurai 12/01/2025 7
An incomplete list of Musk’s insane promises for his robots
If you believe Elon Musk—though, honestly, why would you ?—he is going to build eleventy billion humanoid robots that will do literally everything , ushering in an unprecedented era of ...
Lisa Needham 11/30/2025 107

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