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10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 185
ZenTrainer 12/09/2025 1
📚 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
The Top Ten Reasons Why Donald Trump Received the FIFA Peace Prize
Trump Deserved It, Too! In case you missed this story. Trump was also up against some tough competition. The Top Ten Reasons Trump Deserved the FIFA Peace Prize #10 — For Trump’s Grace Under Pressure #9 — Well… Because #8 — Trump Likes Getting...
JekyllnHyde 12/06/2025 23
Sudan The Forgotten War(s).
The history of conflict in Sudan ...
rebel ga 12/06/2025 6
HHS and its brain-wormed boss 'deadnamed' former Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine
Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name. They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn...
annieli 12/06/2025 4
The quiet part out loud before Red States become Confederate States of America, Part Deux
You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at...
annieli 12/06/2025 21
Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for MLK day
Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed. In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according...
annieli 12/06/2025 12
This caller to our radio show has the recipe to defeat Trump. It's not protest only.
Tom CZarnik, a member of the PDR Posse, called into our Politics Done Right morning show recently to detail what we need to do to defeat Trump and Trumpism. Caller with a recipe to defeat Trump. ...
Egberto Willies 12/06/2025 19
Rattner Destroys Trump’s False Claims About Inflation, Tariffs, and Drug Prices
Steve Rattner dismantles Trump’s lies about inflation, tariffs, and healthcare, exposing the economic fiction behind his political messaging. Rattner Destroys Trump Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio) Summary Rattner...
Egberto Willies 12/06/2025 6
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
Samantha Fulnecky is the Riley Gaines of Charlie Kirks
A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an...
annieli 12/06/2025 98
Tacky assisted living... when will Vance get TF off the couch and seek 25th Amendment solutions?
Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a...
annieli 12/06/2025 41
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,386: The White House has become Russia House annex again
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on December 4 to 5. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 137 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other strike drones, of which about 90 were Shaheds, from...
annieli 12/06/2025 37
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183
ZenTrainer 12/06/2025 26
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
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: RV life ahead, maybe, or just getting an apartment.
Venusian pasta and Martian waffles. How so easy it is to promote binary cognitive models that oppress entire populations using anachronistic�ideologies, because there’s always the promise of ...
annieli 12/05/2025 49
The 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine is more about Teddy Roosevelt
Sadly, Trump’s viewing of the Sicario movie sequel has not left his lizard brain. He confuses movies and reality. and he’s lazy Remember when he ordered the pardoning of J6 insurrectionists en masse because he simply got tired of looking at individual...
annieli 12/05/2025 4
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
Ex-MAGA Activist Reveals the Fear Machine That Radicalized Millions—and How He Escaped
He escaped MAGA after years inside. His apology reveals how fear, conspiracy, and isolation fuel the movement. Ex-MAGA Activist Apologizes x ...
Egberto Willies 12/05/2025 20
I THINK I AGREE WITH THE TN PROJECTIONS
I have kept my mind open about what exactly happened in the TN special house election. I really did not want to make the statement that this is a bellwether but that has changed. We live in a small town on the Easternshore of Maryland. I will state...
BlueCrabby 12/05/2025 78
Trump is awarded (soccer's) Peace Prize...That plus a dollar buys coffee
As FIFA Prez Gianni Infantino gave Trump a large gold-coloured trophy & a gold-coloured medal hanging from a blue ribbon, Trump responded, "This is truly one of the great honours of my life". Trump received an entirely made-up peace prize on Friday,...
annieli 12/05/2025 23
Judge orders public release of Jeffrey Epstein-related grand jury records in Florida
On Friday, Federal District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of the Grand Jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein's Florida case. He wrote: In its instant motion, the Government argues that the newly enacted Act overrides Rule 6's prohibition on the...
TheCriticalMind 12/05/2025 35
Newsom Echoes Progressives: Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders Shape the Future Democrats Need
Newsom unexpectedly validates Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders as the voices defining America’s future—and exposes the failures of neoliberal politics in the process. Newsom Echoes Progressives ...
Egberto Willies 12/05/2025 11
Why Universal Prosperity Is Impossible Under Capitalism’s Exploitative Design
This analysis uncovers the uncomfortable truth: capitalism cannot produce universal prosperity without exploiting workers worldwide. Universal Prosperity Is Impossible Under Capitalism Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio)...
Egberto Willies 12/05/2025 6
Meet Pete Hegseth, Drunken War Criminal — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #8)
Please Support Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” As you know, Editorial Cartoonist Clay Jones is recovering from a stroke, but has started posting again on DK and...
JekyllnHyde 12/05/2025 47
Texas Canvass Wrapup
Our final state wrapup�for the year. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to �Texas in 2021, but skipped a year because of the existing organizing groups in the state.� Turned out�
snowbored 12/05/2025 2
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
Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging
Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ...
Emily Singer 12/05/2025 47
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
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
How bad is the video of strike two? Will the 2026 election be GOP's strike three
Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral...
annieli 12/05/2025 50
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,385: Putin’s original war aims continue, despite the Alaska misadventure
Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 3 to 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea and...
annieli 12/04/2025 26
RANT
Bombing the shit out of a bunch of small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific to satisfy the blood lust of a demented old man is WRONG! The Senators and Representatives who go along with this are as complicit as the military officers who ordered the...
Mitch inWWA 12/04/2025 77
Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built.
Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source...
annieli 12/04/2025 195
Supreme Court Grants Stay; Gerrymandered and Racist Texas Maps Are Okay
Super bad redistricting news thanks to our lovely Extreme Court this evening. By a 6-3 decision, the racist Texas maps that will cost us between 2 to 5 seats WILL go into effect for 2026. This is a temporary stay until the Extreme Court rules on the...
bilboteach 12/04/2025 133
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James
A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...
KeithDB 12/04/2025 148
As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis
There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by...
annieli 12/04/2025 39
Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again)
Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the...
annieli 12/04/2025 31
Ohio Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ...
snowbored 12/04/2025 3
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
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
Isn't this guy a 'narco-terrorist' rather than a crypto-stooge in island real estate development
President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President...
annieli 12/04/2025 4
"I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete
It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because...
annieli 12/04/2025 93
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181
ZenTrainer 12/04/2025 29
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?"
US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's...
annieli 12/03/2025 33
Election News Digest: December 3
DeSantis Will Call for Special Legislative Session on Congressional Redistricting TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his intention to call a special legislative session on congressional redistricting in the spring of 2026 during an...
cbastian 12/03/2025 1
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
Florida Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] basically ended the year like it began —�knocking on doors for another special ...
snowbored 12/03/2025 1
Q: What's wrong with Janet Mills to replace Susan Collins?
www.levernews.com/… A: It depends on what’s more important to you. Do you want a Senator that’s good on social issues or one that good on labor and kitchen table issues? Judging from her record as Governor of Maine, you can’t have both with her. In...
Robpos 12/03/2025 64
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
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
Insomniacs' Late Night Vent Hole - In Support of Mark Kelly Edition
Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. This is a no flame zone . This vent-hole (hereinafter known as IVH), if lost or stolen will not be replaced or ...
RRG3DAV 12/02/2025 9
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
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
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/2/2025: Cliff Notes
Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving...
belinda ridgewood 12/02/2025 89
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
Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally.
“Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post:
Black Kos 12/02/2025 176
Dickens and the Common Good
Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
otter54 12/02/2025 3
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
How to fix the Electoral College
As you probably know, Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but became President due to the Electoral College. As you probably also know, Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, but became President due to the Electoral College. There is a way to fix the...
tedfuller 12/02/2025 29
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
New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder
Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh?
The Marti 12/02/2025 147
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
Now, the Trump administration's policy is to let alleged drug-boat smugglers go scot-free
After September 2nd, the “kill everybody” policy for alleged drug smugglers who survived boat sinkings was changed. Now they rescue them and let them go free. The Biden policy was to bring them to the US, prosecute them, and jail them if there was...
tadamsmar 12/02/2025 7
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/02/2025 73
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
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
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
Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete Hegseth
Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona held a press conference on Monday, taking� President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ...
Walter Einenkel 12/01/2025 74
The decline in Trump's approval stuns CNN's numbers guy. The GOP is staring at a midterm abyss
In 1974, as the full extent of the Watergate cover-up scandal became known, the people awarded Nixon a -36% approval rating. No President since Gallup started polling has come close. But Trump is taking a run at it. At his inauguration, Gallup had him...
TheCriticalMind 12/01/2025 149
12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
enhydra lutris 12/01/2025 6
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
Opting to be on the leading edge: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris's missed opportunity
Yes, some will label a Democrat “radical” if they’re on the leading edge of an issue. And? Will a Democrat be immune from criticism from the right or from the chattering class if they take a more middle-of-the-road position? Not likely! But they’ll get...
Rob in Vermont 11/30/2025 64
Marine Toys For Tots. It's That Time. Need A Toy? Get A Toy. Or, Give A Toy.
💚The Hero's Journey - Happy Birthday Marines Nov 10th💚 Marine Toys For Tots Need Toys? Get Toys Applying For Toys - About Marine Toys For Tots Find Your Local Marine Toys for Tots Chapter To request a toy; submit your application with...
rebel ga 11/30/2025 3