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| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 10th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/10/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 9th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Museums 401: Washing Machines (photo diary) We don’t know for sure how long humans have been� wearing clothes. But we can be certain that sometime after clothing was “invented” the need to wash or clean clothes to rid them of dirt, ... |
Ojibwa | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Museum of Work: Axes and other sharp things (photo diary) The Montana Museum of Work History in Wye, Montana is located in a store with exhibits high on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. The museum, located in the Axmen store, has exhibits featuring ... |
Ojibwa | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Hall of World War II: Pearl Harbor (museum exhibit) The Hall of World War II in the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon is a huge exhibit showing World War II in models. One exhibit shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. |
Ojibwa | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Veterans Car Show: Plymouths and Dodges (photo diary) Shown below are some of the Plymouths and Dodges in the 2025 40et8 Annual Labor Day Car Show in Vancouver, Washington. |
Ojibwa | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 📚 The Inoculation Project 12/7/2025: Science in Texas and Montana This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. �We hope that ... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 184 Hello, my sanity-starved friends! |
belinda ridgewood | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| US government removes critical report addressing trafficking epidemic of Indigenous peoples The disappearance of a federally mandated report to address high numbers of Indigenous deaths, disappearances, and trafficking has exposed a deeper setback. The administration has reduced a national ... |
FreedomUnited | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| New Day Cafe: Things That Appeal, But Are Not Bananas Good morning, Newdists!� Aren’t you lot cold, going around all Newd and such?� Get yer clothes on, grab a cuppa and warm up with us for a bit! |
The Marti | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 8th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 7th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/09/2025 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/6/25 it’s been a�busy couple weeks here at casa del plumber...TLO married...grandma getting a new knee. very well could be at the hospital when this is posted...but will be checking in regardless
“... |
Glen The Plumber | 12/06/2025 | 58 |
| WYFP: Open Thread Another fun week in my building, Wednesday night I went to bed about 9pm and immediately I hear my neighbors out in the hall talking about “how to get in”. Those weren’t the words they used but, on past experience, that’s what the gist was. This has... |
blueoregon | 12/06/2025 | 5 |
| Smoke on the Water: Fire in His Lies So wrathful, so mighty is our First Felon, he’s blown a chunk of our regressively culled taxes to immolate a skiff that looked to be lugging a ‘cargo’ of 11 souls toward Suriname. (That is, DIRECTLY AWAY FROM US.) Which vessel he, Trump, paints... |
Inspector Clueso | 12/06/2025 | 1 |
| Caturday Pootie Diary: HELPING I sat on the floor, surrounded by unwrapped gifts. I took stock. Wrapping paper? Check. Scissors? Check. Tape? I picked up the tape and held it in the air. “Check,” I said.
“Check what?” ... |
Flowergirl77 | 12/06/2025 | 93 |
| 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 |
| New Day Cafe - Saturday: Birds, Fishes, Flowers & Waters. Oh My! Good morning, beloved Newdists. I’ve spent the whole week guzzling soup and sleeping, and occasionally reading abject trash as a palate cleanser. It’s mostly worked. In fact, has helped prodigiously. I’m even feeling human, instead of feeling like wet... |
Crimson Quillfeather | 12/06/2025 | 138 |
| Dahlias (photo diary 9) Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon, hosts an Annual Dahlia Festival. The Festival features 50 acres of Dahlias. Dahlias were originally native to Mesoamerica where they were domesticated by ... |
Ojibwa | 12/06/2025 | 9 |
| 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 |
| ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.1059 Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be starting a new painting. It is a Grand Canyon scene. The photo that I'm using (My own from a recent visit.) is seen directly below.
I'll be ... |
boran2 | 12/06/2025 | 2 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 183 | ZenTrainer | 12/06/2025 | 26 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 6th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day.
I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.
You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| Overnight News Digest 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, JeremyBloom, and doomandgloom. Alumni editors include (but not... |
annetteboardman | 12/05/2025 | 6 |
| Not My Daddy, Just an Airbnb Guest Trump isn’t anyone’s daddy — he’s just a temporary tenant with borrowed keys. The presidency isn’t a family title, and the White House isn’t his forever home. He’s basically a short-term Airbnb guest with delusions of royalty, mistaking a... |
bison | 12/05/2025 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Friday Night Beer Blog Happy Friday beer fans!�
Big thanks to 3CM for writing last week!
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This week in my countdown of Barstool Mountain’s Top 100 Drinking Songs :
#83 — � Good Old Mountain Dew - Grandpa ... |
esquimaux | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review - The Inventor of the Potato Chip
By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food —�the ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2025 | 172 |
| Street Prophets Friday: Castle Malbork, Poland, Part II (open thread/photo diary) Greetings and welcome to another wee bit of open-threaded fluff. This week I'll be continuing my series of diaries featuring photos from my Summer trip to Poland with part two of my tour of Castle ... |
Marko the Werelynx | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| 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
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... |
Egberto Willies | 12/05/2025 | 20 |
| Trump tries to revoke all Biden pardons, orders and laws signed by autopen This is a weird obsession of Drumphfs. He delusionally believes that Biden was so mentally addled while in office that he had no idea what laws, order or pardons were being issued in his name. He has therefore ordered that all documents signed by... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/05/2025 | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| FAFO: US Chamber of Commerce and Small Businesses Taxes The US Chamber of Commerce membership is 90% small business. They were big supporters of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that reduced their company taxes, increased their business deductions and reduced their estate taxes. Trump made them richer. Boosters... |
CorpFlunky | 12/05/2025 | 57 |
| Musings for Friday - Belle of the Ranch. A Voice of Clarity I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much given up watching any network news. I record Rachel, and occasionally watch Lawrence and maybe catch 30 minutes of Nicole out of her two hour show. So where do I stay informed? Multiple platforms and... |
TexDem | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| New Day CAfé: In the Soup Does the weather have you craving soup? It does me. Here are some that look tasty.
Greek Beef & Barley Soup
Recipe. �[3:46]
... |
Youffraita | 12/05/2025 | 165 |
| Stonehenge Air Museum: C-47 and F-5 (photo diary) Outside of the Stonehenge Air Museum in Ferndale, Montana, is a C-47 Skytrain and an F-5. The museum takes its name from the full-size replica of Stonehenge on the nearby private golf course. All of ... |
Ojibwa | 12/05/2025 | 5 |
| 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 |
| Overnight News Digest Dec. 4, 2025, Oops I forgot top put it in the Q I finished the benches tonight! 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,... |
eeff | 12/05/2025 | 2 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 182 Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection. |
belinda ridgewood | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| Bob's Picture of the Day for December 5th, 2025 Welcome to my Picture of the Day. I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 49 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos. You will be able to find ... |
bsegel | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| IAN: December 5, 2025: Brain Break Happy Friday! For those that missed it yesterday, my chronic wound healed up finally, no more bi-weekly wound care appointments for me. That makes it less likely that I’ll have 2 or 3 appointments ... |
FloridaSNMOM | 12/04/2025 | 46 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The village of Mammoth Hot Springs Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ... |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2025 | 16 |
| 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 Corner (phoning it in) Truncated with repeats.� �Quarter’s end, retirement’s ignition, and training my replacement have left the entire staff here at Cartoon Corner exhausted.�
It’s ... |
ynohtnA | 12/04/2025 | 2 |
| Indians 101: Nobleman and Daughter (museum exhibition) The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ... |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2025 | 1 |
| Overnight News Digest: December 3, 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 FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
FarWestGirl | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump Accounts”: Exposing Power and Defending Democracy A president fuels hate, billionaires seed “Trump Accounts,” Congress moves to block a Venezuela war, and Van Hollen calls for Medicare for All. A sweeping look at power, justice, and democratic resistance. From Bigotry to Billion-Dollar “Trump... |
Egberto Willies | 12/03/2025 | 1 |
| Cedar Creek Grist Mill: Inside the Mill (photo diary) | Ojibwa | 12/03/2025 | 4 |
| Portland Art Museum: Spanish Colonial Art (museum exhibition) The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon held an exhibition, Highest Heaven: Andean Art from the Elvin Duerst Bequest , featuring art from the Spanish viceregal or colonial period from 1521 ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ... |
Ojibwa | 12/02/2025 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Overnight News Digest: Who has access to footage of Flock surveillance cameras? Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI Wired An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to ... |
maggiejean | 12/01/2025 | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering: The Crisis Uniting Democracy and Gender Justice A deep dive into abortion rights, Venezuela narratives, global manhood reform, and a Trump-Starmer deal that would raise NHS drug prices—democracy is on the line. Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts... |
Egberto Willies | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit) Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ... |
Ojibwa | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| 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 |
| Overnight News Digest November 30, 2025
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ... |
side pocket | 11/30/2025 | 23 |
| 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 |
| Saturday Top Comments: Breaking Addiction Behaviors The mind can be a fickle monster. A chemical imbalance, some faulty wiring, and things can happen. Any recovering addict will tell you that they’re still an addict. Ask a neurodivergent person how ... |
zenbassoon | 11/29/2025 | 25 |
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