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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 ...

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This is just...beneath pathetic. As reported by Chris Cameron and Maxine Joselow, writing for the New York Times: The Trump administration will raise prices and add new fees next year for international tourists visiting national parks, the latest...

Unfortunately, I have been very busy with all things Thanksgiving this week in addition to my sister getting a new job as a Supervisor of Special Ed in my mom’s hometown. That will necessitate her ...

Tōshi Yoshida : Autumn in Hakone (1954) Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone is set for the holiday, and not needing to travel ...

Donald Trump has once again declared that this is the week he finally reveals his big healthcare plan. Stop me if you have heard this one before. Actually, do not bother, because we have all heard this one before. It is Infratructure Week all over...

Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that former city employees who were fired for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine will be given another chance to come back to work. About 1,500 workers, including teachers, public housing staff, and other city...

We know from MAGA Republicans that DEI is bad. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion—the words have been attacked so long and so hard that I almost can’t stand to speak them. When I do, they leave a terrible taste in my mouth. For the MAGA Republicans, they...

UPDATE for Thanksgiving Eve (If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, just scroll down) Am I the only one who forgot ONE INGREDIENT and had to go to the store again today (or do without)? I started the day making the herbed olive oil. Just chopped the...

Lewis Carroll redux The story of MAGA America is a 21st-century retelling of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland seen through Orwell's doublethink lens. In this logic-free universe, Trump is the fittest man ever to be President. Tax cuts shrink the...

A deep dive into exploding healthcare premiums, MAGA’s unraveling as MTG turns victim, and Trump’s autocratic socialism that Velshi exposes with precision.

The Maastricht Animal, as it was first called, played a significant role in the death of religious dogma in Europe and the advance of biological and paleontological�science. "Hidden History" is ...

Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman is here for a special Thanksgiving Tuesday KITM. How does Lindsey Halligan do it? Well, she doesn’t, as Judge Cameron...

If I didn’t put this in German I feel like it would be reused by the goons that think persecuting honest hard working people who have no criminal record other than being alive and coming here to escape the very cartel violence the President prattles on...

Among my favorite movies — a list that includes The Princess Bride, The Iron Crown, Diva, Fabulous Fabiola, Blazing Saddles, and of course The Godfather — sits a little, radiant, mutant of a film called Radioactive Dreams. It is not an A-movie. It is...

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at this point but the abuses of this treasonous and lawless administration still don’t cease to amaze me. The damage they have done to the FBI and DOJ in 10 short months will take years to fix. Every single agent which...

Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...

What if every state did the Transparent Election Initiative to negate the pernicious effects of Citizens United and its political action committee grifting down by the dental floss bush. Every state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has...

On November 24, 2025, the Trump Administration did something both dangerous and stunningly dishonest: it announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 3,000 Burmese refugees living safely in the United States. DHS Secretary...

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe,� Bondi ran ...

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:

In a world afire in climate crisis and simultaneously hungry for food and energy, agrivoltaics—the pairing of solar panels with farming and ranching — has been hailed as a miracle solution. But this encouraging technological fix is also a political...

This piece is also appearing this coming weekend in newspapers in the very red Virginia congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012. ************************** The American people need to understand that...

from NPR this morning: “U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'” Pentagon Pete doesn’t seems to think Scouting teaches “masculine values” any more, and lost its way when it became coed a few years ago, and...

www.statnews.com/… First, bit of history: In 2018, Congress passed language that legalized hemp products up to a specific and low concentration of marijuana’s naturally occurring, high-inducing compound: delta-9 THC. But the cannabis industry pounced...

I recently read the article about France Perkins who was in FDR`s cabinet, the first woman in such a role.� Reading about all that one determined woman did during her service to our country makes my ...

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Although I contributed to, and made calls on behalf, of our local Congressman here in Upstate New York, I have not been overjoyed by Josh Riley’s performance since taking office in January. But I was willing to cut him some slack, considering that our...

A Porcine Pause Oh. Well, when you explain it like that... A real scholar, that one. And now, our feature presentation...

The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) governs the conduct of every person in the United States military, ...

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60 yards and a cloud of horseshoe dust They died with their boots (and underwear) on, having left their Gatling guns behind. Scalping is associated with American Indians on the Western frontier, but white settlers also performed the gruesome practice....

The US House’s vote to release the federal records related to � Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes � marks a historic turning point. Not just in one of the most notorious criminal cases of our time, but ...

Trumps new golden ballroom is replacing the East Wing. Under the East Wing is the PEOC - The “Presidential Emergency Operations Center.” This was originally designed as a bomb shelter by FDR during WWII. Cheney & Rice rode out 9/11 there and it’s the...

Greetings everyone and welcome to another instalment of mayhem, madness, fun, and insightfulness from the good place. We start with a not so bright mascot..

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Scene from a prior Bread Communion circa 2016 On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the UU church I attend has its annual bread communion, ...

In another act of environmental sabotage in the name of corporate greed, the Trump EPA just decided to make forever chemical use legal again. In addition, they decided to make it harder to discover what products contain these chemicals. This is an...

After all, he does wear red…�I’ve always thought of him more like a generous old soul who is older than all of the political parties that exist in the world and has seen them come and go. He ...

Just a bit on boycotts today. When I was 16, I lived in a house with a bunch of hippies that was a designated Cesar Chavez house. That meant that folks traveling the state of MI working for the movement could stay at our house for free. I think they...

Now, finally, COP30 is coming to the point, a global joint effort on four overarching issues for combating Global Warming. They didn’t get voted on, but it is significant that the issues were raised officially. Full proposals will be ready when COP31...

The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano in Ethiopia’s desolate Afar region near Eritrea unexpectedly erupted with a thunderous explosion yesterday (Nov 23) for the first time in at least 10,000 years — sending a column of ash more than 45,000 feet into the...

Money plays an important role in the current Israel-Hamas war. Many people are justifiably concerned by the violence that is occurring in Gaza and Israel. However, they may not be aware that people are dying not because of racism, religion, and...

Andrew Cuomo lost two mayoral elections by hiding from progressive Democrats like all of us. Today he came out of hiding and told us exactly how much he hates us an in “Open Letter From Andrew M. Cuomo, the 56th Governor of the State of New York” Of...

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I thought you were an establishment liberal/market socialist! And now you’re posting a diary titled Marxist‑Curious?” Well… yeah. Marxism is a mixed bag. Setting aside its political program, the economic analysis within the Marxist tradition has proven...