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📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII
In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) � will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and ...
nomandates 12/06/2025 7
Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 21.49: The Final Straw
Good morning, Saturday Morning Garden Blog-Friends old and new! �This cheerful long-running tradition appears every Saturday morning at 9am Eastern, and lasts well into the week as conversations ...
AnnieJo 12/06/2025 114
Birthright citizenship - a logical conundrum
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a case that may redefine who is a citizen. The Trump executive order that is being challenged stated that children born on US soil to non-citizens are not US citizens, even though the 14th Amendment says they are....
liberaldad2 12/05/2025 23
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
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
Whiteness is a Myth
There is no such thing as “the white race.” (This is not to say white privilege isn’t real. White privilege is 100% real. White privilege is the purpose for which whiteness was invented in the 1600s in Virginia.) Right now you may be thinking: “What?”...
cai 12/05/2025 37
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
What are you reading? December 5, 2025
In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books… I am reading: Obsession: The Life and ...
Chitown Kev 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
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
Write On! Seasons Writings, or, the Advent of Winter
Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...
dconrad 12/04/2025 56
Write-On Weekly Fiction Works in Progress (WIP) diary: A Busyness of Ferrets (DaKoWriMo)
Welcome to the Weekly Fiction WIP Thread! � This is a weekly community diary for writers here on Daily Kos to showcase microfiction, ongoing serialized stories, and pieces of larger works in ...
sagesource 12/04/2025 26
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
Whiteness Wednesdays - The Enduring Myth of a Post-Racial America
Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. One of the constant lies White people tell ourselves is that racism is a dying legacy of the past, and that we’re just about to move past it altogether. This ...
Toro Blanco 12/03/2025 21
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
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
Nonfiction Views: Franklin the Turtle vs Hegseth, plus the week's notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. A little late posting this evening. This afternoon we had to say goodbye to out sweet kitty Charlie Brown. He was a wonderful companion, and we will miss him. There have been dozens of musicians who have pushed back and even...
DebtorsPrison 12/02/2025 12
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
Is an “AI” Really “Intelligent”?
Don’t get me wrong. After some hesitation, I’ve taken to AI as a duck takes to water. I seldom use “normal” online searches anymore. Most “normal” online search results now appear in the order for which for-profit providers of goods or services have...
dratler 12/02/2025 83
Tired of being suckered by the latest email request, I created a political donation budget.
I’ve always dipped into my retirement income to donate to political campaigns. I give of my time as well, but haven’t attempted to quantify that. In past years, however, I found myself committing some of the cardinal sins of so many donors: giving on...
Blue Boomer 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
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
No One Should Be Shocked: Pete Hegseth Told Us Who He Was
Shocked? I’m as Shocked as Casablanca’s Captain Renault Why are we pretending to be shocked that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now accused of issuing a spoken order to “leave no one alive” after a maritime strike in the Caribbean? He has been...
bison 12/01/2025 29
World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum)
The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the...
sfbob 12/01/2025 17
For those grieving the death of a loved one when the world seems to be on fire.
“Is it my imagination, or is dying, and grieving, harder in the age of Trump with his endless flak field of chaos, cruelty, corruption, and lies?” The question hangs in the air as my buddy, a hospice Bereavement Counselor, takes a sip of his high...
Scott Janssen 12/01/2025 9
The Second Warning
When Tyson Foods announced it would close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska in early 2026, most Americans didn’t notice. But they should have. Not because Lexington is unique — but because it isn’t. What’s happening there is a warning, a...
sbanks 12/01/2025 247
Time to Stop Worshipping the Constitution
� � �The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford , which held that African Americans, ...
Matthew D Jones 12/01/2025 24
Morning Open Thread: There Will Be Dancing At My Funeral
________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life...
officebss 12/01/2025 67
Top Comments: The Universe Is NOT a Computer Simulation
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
gizmo59 11/30/2025 58

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