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Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke'
� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...
Denise Oliver Velez 12/09/2025 0
This Week in the War on Women: Open Thread
Open thread this week. Please put links in comments. Anytime you hit a paywall on articles linked in diaries or comments (or anywhere online) try using   Archive.Today   to see if you can get free ...
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker 12/06/2025 31
Caribbean Matters: The heinous boat bombings continue
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...
Denise Oliver Velez 12/06/2025 118
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
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
Nurses Must Strike – A Misogynist Government Aims to Take Away Their Professional Status
One feature of the Republican administration in Washington and Project 2025 is their apparent wish to demote people in “women’s professions”. They are stripping them of their professional status at work. New government student loan caps will increase...
pouncecafe 12/05/2025 12
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
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: ICE storm into The Big Easy
We begin today with� Lucy Campbell �of The Guardian reporting on new ICE actions in the city of New Orleans. Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a ...
Chitown Kev 12/04/2025 343
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
Wednesday 12/3 edition of lots and lots of Democrats in action!
Good morning friends! �This will be my last Wednesday diary for at least a month. �I’ve got surgery coming up in 2 weeks, and Congress will be on recess for a few weeks after the surgery. �I will ...
Janesaunt 12/03/2025 11
Overnight News Digest December 2, 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 �...
Chitown Kev 12/02/2025 14
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
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
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Why Latin America and why now?
We begin today with� Greg Sargent �of The New Republic and his many doubt about the Congressional Republicans willingness to investigate the Caribbean boat strikes. To be sure, this does look like ...
Chitown Kev 12/02/2025 331
Blue26.org November 2025 Fundraising update: $17.4K for the month, $541K for the cycle
We're now past the halfway mark of the 2025-2026 election cycle. So far I've raised 4.3x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and 2.5x as much as I had at this point 2 years ago! In November 2025 specifically, I raised nearly...
Brainwrap 12/01/2025 2
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
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 11/30/2025 3
Black Music Sunday: Jimmy Cliff crossed his final river at age 81
Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you�
Denise Oliver Velez 11/30/2025 135
Sunday 11/30 edition of lots of Democrats in action!
I hope everyone has recovered from the big meals, football games and travel. �This is a light version for those very reasons. �I didn’t travel for the holiday, but enjoyed family time and football ...
Janesaunt 11/30/2025 6
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Of Venezuela, AI, and...Duke?
We begin today with� Heather Cox Richardson �writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. In the ...
Chitown Kev 11/30/2025 355
This Week in the War on Women, 11/23-29/25: Thanksgiving Week Open Thread
Many Native women promote�the true story of Thanksgiving:� Ramona Peters : The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving: After Squanto’s aid with corn and other planting, the pilgrims had a ...
elenacarlena 11/29/2025 58

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