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Please have a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.� I think mine will be little different. We are home! I wrote this Wednesday after they said �they are�sending us home. �Bill is holding ...

For today, just some calming, contemplative music… multicultural, by one of our master composers.  Happy Holidays to all, from all cultures and backgrounds!  Hope you had a great  Rosh Chodesh ...

Good morning, Cafe!� The week is off to a good start, I hope.� It’s going to be a balancing act for many of us-- This is how our week will go:

Welcome to � Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ...

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and ...

As I asked myself what to post this week, I thought about my big stash of food, especially my canned pumpkin. I decided that no, I am not willing to make any pumpkin pies in time for Thanksgiving. Likewise, no green bean casserole. But I have some of...

All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...

Idrees Kahloon/ The Atlantic: The GOP Is Realizing That Trump Won’t Be Around Forever The intra-party fight over the Epstein files was only the prelude. The reality that Donald Trump’s ...

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. If you’re worried about your Thanksgiving meal being perfect, never fear. It could always be worse.

Musk and MAGA are suffering a self-inflicted injury... The Daily Beast Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually...