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All Health
All things related to health, including healthy living and health care. I don't like the micro-schismatic groups. If you are interested in anything and everything related to health, be it nutrition and physical exercise, the latest in genetics, or health policy, insurance, health reform, single payer... you name it... let's lump it, not split it.
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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
Anti-Capitalist Meetup
The Anti-Capitalist Meetup is an ongoing diary series that began in July 2010 with the goal of providing a forum to discuss the history, present day issues, and the future of the Capitalist system and its alternatives. The Meet-up embraces and encourages intellectual and respectful discussion.

At a time when a third of Americans tell pollsters they have a positive view of Socialism and when most Americans conflate Socialism with anti-capitalism, it's time for the opponents of capita...
 2025-11-30 23:00:14
Astro Kos
For Kossacks who love the sky, outer space, the stars and planets (including our own), and all that other amazing stuff going on out there.
2021-09-09 23:51:05
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
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
Bright Shiny
A place for people afflicted with ADHD to gather and compare notes . . . provided those notes are not scattered in some big pile on the floor . . . .
2012-01-30 02:09:27
Canadian Kossacks
This is a group to discuss news and politics and events north of the border.
2014-11-11 11:40:33
CareGiving Kos
For those who are now (or have been) in the role of being a care-giver for a loved one. Intended to be a support group and information resource for all care-providers and the many challenges they face.
2023-01-01 11:58:09
Chronic Tonic Gathering
A place where those of us with chronic illnesses, conditions and injuries gather for support and information.
2015-11-18 21:20:05
ClassWarfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS Working Class Global Occupy movement
(THE WORKING CLASS OCCUPY MOVEMENT HAS MOVED BEYOND JUST WALL STREET)! Our group was Co founded by METEOR BLADES and DEMOCRATS RAMSHIELD. Meet our blog editors which are some of your favorate writers: teacherken,slinkerwink,X,Laurence Lewis,boatsie,LaFeminista,Eclectablog, MinistryOfTruth,xxdr zombiexx,Barbara Morrill,JekyllnHyde,Jake McIntyre, Eclectablog,Ojibwa,icebergslim,BruinKid,CityLightsLover,Mentatmark to name but a few. As members of the MOST PROLIFIC AND LARGEST GROUP AT THE DAILY KOS...
 2025-09-07 16:40:27
Climate Hawks
Climate matters. We vote.
2025-12-06 22:04:15
Comic book geeks
A blog for comic book geeks here at daily kos.
2011-04-17 05:36:45
Comics
Comics at Daily Kos
 2025-12-10 03:13:27
Cooking With Kos
For those who love to cook--a place to discuss recipes, favorite food blogs, favorite foods and cuisines, and, of course, how progressive politics and food go together. Come and join us! Just be sure to bring enough to go 'round.
2015-06-12 01:25:10
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
Culinary Kos
An educational group primarily focused on discussions relating to the fundamentals of classical cooking concepts, theories, terminology and techniques. A secondary focus of the group will be the practical application of this knowledge in the production of shared recipes.
2011-09-03 20:33:28
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 Weight Loss
Are you interested in losing weight, or maintaining your weight loss? So are we! Come weigh in on our topics and diaries. We're here to help.
2018-08-28 01:09:00
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
DKos Military Veterans
Are you a veteran of the armed services? Well, hop right in - the purpose of this group is to discuss issues of interest to U.S. military vets. There are many vets (and active duty military) who actually do have a progressive political mindset. Need to know who to call when you need some help? Have a question about the VA Healthcare system (the best socialist healthcare available in America)? Got some benefit news? Or just need to vent? Then, you've come to the right place...
2025-11-06 20:04:05
Education Alternatives
To best serve the development of all our young people, we need to move away from our one-size-fits-all education system (based on the 19th Century industrial model) to a new approach that encourages and facilitates many profoundly different educational paths, including learning within and outside of schools.
2025-06-30 14:26:35
Electronic America: Progressives Film, music & Arts Group
With the Electronic America group, you'll never miss another great episode of Jon Stewart, Colbert, Rachael Maddow, Tavis Smilely or Bill Maher ever again because our diarists will tell you about them on all progressive film makers. You'll get the latest in Michael Moore diaries, film music and Arts reviews. Our progressive diaries will tell you all this and much more. Our group also supports reviews from NPR radio, the PBS newsroom Dkos TV /Radio and progressives making a difference in virtual...
 2025-12-06 22:31:45
Environmental Foodies
For all who eat and are concerned about the environment, food security and food safety, and lots of recipes.
2023-03-09 06:29:00
Fitness
This is a group for Kossacks of all fitness levels and abilities to share their experience and encouragement in their effort to get and to stay physically fit. Also, for discussion and advocacy of public policy as it relates to physical fitness.
2011-02-13 13:10:17
Fok News
The place to discuss and enjoy the content of Keith Olbermann's Fok News Channel
2011-06-20 19:31:56
Foodies Unite
 2011-08-07 16:21:59
Friends of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow
I'd love for this group to be THE place for all things Rachel Maddow & Keith Olbermann; I hope you'll join us!
2014-02-05 15:52:22
Frustrati
This is a group for all those who wish to express not-so-arbitrary disappointment at our slightly-left-of-authoritarian political class, transnational capitalist class, oligarchy, bourgeoisie, and so on.
2017-04-06 03:54:37
Geeks
This group is for geeks of all sorts. Science geeks. Maker geeks. Electronics geeks. People who like to build stuff, take it apart, understand how it works. And then quite possibly blow it up
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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
Global Expats
Global expats membership is open to everyone. This site is ran by people with international interest that include immigration to the United States and the rest of the world. This site is ran primarily by current and former expats, (or those who are interested in international issues) for the benefit of the Kos community and as a service to our members. The international expat community residing abroad has a responsibility to tell the folks back home what their experience is living overseas unde...
 2016-07-03 22:51:31
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
InfoWar
Infowar -or- Infowarfare is the practice of information technology as warfare on a local or global basis. Sometimes this tactic is refered to as Cyberwarfare. This group addresses infowarfare, communications work-arounds during governmental Internet, media, or telecommunications black-outs, Internet and satellite jamming, drone technology, disaster planning technology, and other technological and ethical infowar tactics, etc. (specifically as they impact global politics and organizing.)
2011-08-12 15:39:32
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
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
KosKraft
We make things.
2014-10-15 15:40:42
Kosowatt
Dedicated to accelerating the transitions to clean renewable and sustainable energy generation, and conservation. Encouraging and publishing solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, energy, as well as conservation, and technologically based efficiency improvement. And, supporting the efforts of the MIT CoLab project
2025-12-05 12:01:13
Kossacks for Protecting Real Children
This group is dedicated to combating encroaching Censorship and Fascism in America by educating people on the reality of so-called "virtual child pornography", research shows that contrary to what conservative propaganda says countries where such substances are readily available (like Japan) show no increase in crimes against children, in fact a decrease in such crimes is often observed, also, although few people are even aware of it, the Republican Senate and House passed in 2003 a little know...
 2011-04-11 01:38:48
Living Simply
A group to explore and share sustainable, simple living ideas among fellow progressives. For the urban, rural, or wannabe homesteader, this is a place to share information to simplify everyday life. Sustainable skills such as gardening, food production and storage, do-it-yourself projects for the home or farm, and backyard chickens and other livestock, as well as eco-conscious philosophies such as cooperative living, eco-cities, the Slow Food movement, and being a mindful consumer are but a few...
 2011-09-17 16:02:34
Lyme Disease Awareness
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Lyme is the most prevalent vector-borne disease and one of the fastest spreading diseases throughout the United States, and the subjects of diagnosis and treatment of Lyme are politically-charged. This series of diaries is designed to provide information to the Daily Kos community both for Lyme disease prevention and for those Kossacks living with Lyme. Because the disease is often missed by physicians, these diaries may assist an individual or two in pursui...
 2021-07-11 18:24:09
Manga And Anime Fans At DailyKos
Follow this group (by clicking the heart next to this groups name) for diaries on a wide splattering of subjects including; Anime, Manga, Doujinshi, J-Pop, J-Rock, and AMVs. Whether you're a hard core Otaku, Fujoshi, or just a casual fan or completely new to the genres feel free to drop in. We're also always welcoming new members, if you want to join simply send this group or the Group Admin (Dom9000) a message.
2013-09-02 01:29:01
Math and Statistics Geeks
For questions, answers, thoughts and stuff about math and statistics. Also for sharing of data sets, requests for analysis, debunking statistics cited by RWNJ, and so on.
2013-12-07 13:38:15
Military Community Members of Daily Kos
This is the gathering place for all military community members including veterans and their families. Our goal is two-fold: to publish diaries that help explain military life, especially family life, to civilians and to produce material that shows the military is not only culturally but politically diverse. Active duty family members are in a unique position, as we can freely express our political opinions whereas our active duty members are more likely to keep their mouths shut. That said, all...
 2025-11-30 20:36:11
NerdyKos
Blogging at the nexus of gaming and politics, NerdyKos seeks to bring together liberals of nerdy persuasions. Whether you are into Gaming, anime, paper and pen role playing, sci fi/fantasy...there will be something here for you.
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New Diarists
The New Diarists group republishes some (non-troll) first diaries and also posts tutorials about how to post diaries. One important New Diarists tutorial: Formatting, tagging, publishing, editing: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/09/1482008/-New-Diarists-tutorial-for-formatting-drafts-adding-tags-publishing-options-and-editing
 2025-08-09 21:39:01
Obamacare Saves Lives
This imperfect law is saving lives, preventing bankruptcies, giving hope and comfort to millions. This group aims to celebrate the victories, even as we work to strengthen and perfect the law.
2025-07-24 19:02:24
OnlyUSAGoods
Buying USA goods. (Companion to OnlyUSAGoods.com)
2011-06-14 19:33:36
Otaku Kos
Group for talking about Anime, Manga, J-Pop, J-Rock, AMVs and all related subjects, whether you're a hard core Otaku, Casual Fan or completely new to the Genre feel free to drop in.
2011-04-11 01:41:33
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
Pagan and Wiccan Kossacks
Discussion of all things of a Pagan/Wiccan nature.
2011-04-01 01:38:02
PaganKos
A forum for Pagan/Wiccan/New Age issues, discussions and merry meeting
2025-12-04 17:01:53
Parenting on the Autism Spectrum
A group of those who are parenting a child with autism specturm disorder diagnosis. This is not a group for discussing possible causes of autism spectrum disorders but, instead, for parents to share how they have approached helping their children.
2015-12-01 00:49:56
Permanent Glory
A blog created in memory of Molly Ivins, to promote wit and wisdom in an age of sleaze and stink. Help us Raise Some Hell!
2012-02-21 23:15:14
Polyglots Linguaphiles and Word Parsers
A group for those steeped in language; their own, acquired ones, nuance, general linguistic hairsplitting and all manner of linguistic nerdity.
2012-03-05 01:22:01
Progressive Friends of the Library Newsletter
We advocate for social justice and equal library access for all. We support your local libraries and literacy programs. We also invite you to publish your diaries here that offer library news and support, book reviews, reviews of articles, as well as reviews of video games and other electronic media in our tech talk diaries. We ask for and offer reader guidance for the love of reading, for the love of books and for the love of everything which is your library experience. We also publish diaries...
 2025-10-04 16:09:45
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...
 2025-12-12 01:00:30
Retail and Workplace Pragmatists - Members and Editors
We are a community rooted in solidarity and worker rights. This community is primarily focused on the retail industry, but welcomes all industries. Share practical workplace survival strategies with a specific focus on empowering those who are employed in nonunionized industries. This is not solely a rant space, but an educational one. We'll highlight worker successes across industries, and pinpoint ways to improve. Union organizers are also warmly welcomed. Retail workers and others who wish t...
 2025-12-05 14:43:56
Rurally Speaking
Discussing populist politics, particularly bridging the divide between rural and urban poor, working poor, and middle class people and the different ways both groups view politics based on their daily lives.
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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 education in America
This group is dedicated to the discussion and promotion of good science education.
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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
Senile Dementia
Often lumped with the specific pathology of Alzheimer's disease, the loss of cognitive ability with age is ubiquitous. This group is for sharing expeiences....personal and academic, and lightening the load of those who face this first hand
2018-10-25 22:04:18
Seriously Seeking Cinema
This is a new group devoted to extended movie reviews, recommendations, discussions of political themes in movies, and shared cinephilia.
2025-11-16 21:58:47
Severe Weather Liveblog
A group created to liveblog severe weather events (tornadoes, widespread severe t'storms, remnants of hurricanes, etc.) as they happen. Diaries posted to this group should be of a liveblog nature only. Be sure to also follow Hurricane Kos for the latest on the tropics.
2025-03-14 17:04:10
Sex, Body, and Gender
A group for Kossacks wanting to discuss the political and social implications of sex being stigmatized on us as individuals and of greater society
2025-09-28 23:48:13
Shock Doctrine Watch
Chronicling the corporatist exploitation of human crises at home and around the world.
2012-03-20 23:10:25
Single Payer: The Fight for Medicare for All
Making single payer a reality in Vermont and California is a national priority. It's the camel's nose under the for-profit insurance industry tent. These two states are poised to become the first to enact Single Payer healthcare. The insurance corporations will use all their resources to stop these efforts in their tracks. Join us here to fight for California and Vermont. This battle is for all Americans.
2025-09-29 13:52:02
Social Security Defenders
The enemies of Social Security have been on the offense for 75 years seeking to gut Social Security and wipe out the legacy of the New Deal. Time to join the defense?
2022-10-30 16:58:29
State of the Skies
State of the Skies is a group that focuses on the goings-on above our heads. The majority of postings will be meteorology-related, but the group is definitely not meteorology-exclusive.
2012-06-29 23:37:11
Stay At Home Dads
More and more fathers are staying home with the kids. Talk about it here: Challenges, joys, opinions, tips and tricks, encouragement, venting.
2011-07-29 01:58:37
Sunday Bread And Other Food
A place at Kos for folks who to like to talk about food, read about food or eat food. Built around Sunday Bread, but hopefully being much, much more than that!
2012-06-24 13:53:02
Surviving Alzheimers
My beloved grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2003. This group is an attempt to live with and understand this horrible disease and perhaps help others out there doing the same.
2012-01-12 18:50:28
Sustainable Food and Agriculture
This group addresses food & agricultural issues. Folks in this group dream of a day when agriculture is a way to make the environment cleaner and healthier, promote biodiversity, provide meaningful employment and fair wages to farmers and farmworkers, and provide us with healthy and delicious food.
2019-11-08 11:16:48
Tag Librarians
The gathering place for people interested in maintaining tags.
2023-08-30 18:35:02
Teachers Lounge
This group is for discussion of teaching and education at all levels, from elementary to university, from international to continuing education, and everything in between.
2025-09-23 18:43:28
The Amateur Left
Alternative universe for those interested in policies and politics that transcend pure partisanship. I.e., the "better" -- or even the other -- vs. the "more."
2017-04-06 03:54:51
The KETI Program
The object of this group is to herd cats, umm, sorry, to motivate members [and anyone else really] into writing diaries about their work and maybe even to discuss their hopes dreams in their given fields of expertise. There will be no risk assessments, nor health and safety meetings; so wear your high viz equipment at all times [yellow vest and a white helmet with red hair I ask you, yeech]
2019-08-14 21:38:03
Urban Homesteading
Who says you need acerage to grow your own food? In the Urban Homesteading group we'll discuss several methods of food production almost anyone can take advantage of. Whether you're just growing tomatoes on your apartment patio or raising hens on your quarter acre lot.
2012-04-15 21:47:22
Velocipede Vanguard
Velocipede-Vanguard is for Kossacks who love to ride Bicycles of all kinds. On pavement or off pavement its all good.
2025-08-28 14:31:56
Warming Wednesdays
Authors who have decided to pitch in and help build the global public consensus for the urgent need to solve the climate crisis and avert runaway global warming.
2011-09-06 18:19:23
Weight Loss Kos
A support group for users trying to lose weight, and those who have successfully lost weight and are trying to keep it off. Diaries on diet/nutrition, exercise, or just stories of your weight loss experiences are welcome.
2014-08-02 23:09:22
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
Why I Fight Against Torture Group
This series is devoted to the effects of torture from the perspective of the person being tortured, with as many first hand accounts as possible. I was asked to make this a group, so those following it would not miss any of the diaries.
2013-01-22 15:17:56
World War II and Holocaust History Library
This is a historical group dedicated to the victims and families of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This historical group attempts to repay a debt with grateful remembrance through the publication of historical diaries. Therein creating a library of archive diaries, photographs and publicly available documents. This collection and publication is supervised by our blog editors, several of whom like myself are professional librarians. The purpose of this is to add value to the Kos communi...
 2014-02-18 19:31:28
Youth Kos
The future of the Democratic party, the progressive movement, our country, and the world depends on the actions of today's and tomorrow's youth. Youth Kos aims to be a gathering point for DailyKos's younger members, and a vehicle for furthering the participation of youth in politics.
2011-02-13 22:42:13
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