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Washington Post: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ramped up his tirade against Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday, disparaging Kelly's military title and said the Democrat’s video urging troops not to follow illegal orders amounted to "sedition." "So 'Captain' Kelly, not...

Mark Kelly: The Officer They Can Never Be The other night on The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, legal analyst Charles F. Coleman Jr. said that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth were jealous of Senator Mark Kelly because he is everything they are not. That...

A small but unusually forceful bloc of left-wing senators has begun openly challenging Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy for the 2026 midterms—and his entire posture toward President Donald Trump. It’s an early, unmistakable sign of internal...

We begin this Turkey Day with� Shaun Walker �of The Guardian speculating about the leaked audio to Bloomberg News�that U.S. special envoy Steven Witkoff gave “suggestions” � coached the former ...

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.

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE ...

Good morning, Newdists! I’ve been on a “journey” as of late...a journey with beans. If my self-care was a train, that train derailed sometime around November 2024. I wonder if anything ...

House Democrats are bracing for a surge of progressive primary challenges that could scramble the party’s internal hierarchy—and the spark behind it all is a likely one: New York City Mayor-...

Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack. FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor...

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...

Nebraska has been on a roll. After voting big for President Donald Trump in 2024 and Republicans since forever, the state is now reaping what it so eagerly sowed. Its economy is collapsing . ...

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:

Feeling kinda cheesy this week 😆 so enjoy a few cheesy recipes. Cheese Dreams Recipe. [11:42] ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy groaned to reporters Monday about the “degradation in civility” at airports, urging people to dress “with some respect” as they travel for the holidays. ��

Good morning!� Don’t want worms?� How ‘bout some coffee?

Today it was revealed that American military forces conducted a "double tap" strike on an alleged drug running boat on September 2d. They hit the boat once, killing some and disabling the boat. However, there were survivors. They hit the boat again to...

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...

Back in June, the grifty Trump family launched its Trump-branded cell service and super-luxe Trump T1 smartphone with maximum hype and minimal details. Now, five months later, neither is anywhere ...

The Pentagon announced Monday that it has launched an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona after he and several other Democratic lawmakers said that military troops should not obey “illegal orders.” In a statement on X, the so-called...

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS...

Rest In Peace and Power, Mrs. Viola Ford Fletcher by Chitown Kev Yesterday, it was announced that the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher, passed away. She ...

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE ...

When court-assigned prosecutor Peter J. Skandalakis dismissed Georgia’s election-interference case and justified his decision by claiming that “reasonable minds could differ” about Donald Trump’s conduct — and that therefore Trump was “entitled to the...

No end to tacky with Mango Mussolini US president Donald Trump fired the six remaining members of independent federal agency the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architects and urban planners meant to review projects such as the planned triumphal...

It was funny, in hindsight, seeing how excited Republicans were before the meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.� “Mamdani is acting like he is the ...

� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

Ukraine went after bases in Chechnya belonging to the Akhmat unit that has been fighting alongside the Russians. A Russian soldier shows why this area of Novotoretsk is called the Valley of Death. He videos a meat assault past the bodies of numerous...

Yes, your intrepid reporter braved the anarchist/ socialist enclave of San Francisco, widely known as ‘Baghdad by the Bay’. Known as a ‘wasteland’, ‘worse than the third world’ and ‘not America anymore’, the city I once lived in is now a ‘slum’, ‘trash...

Black Out the System calls for a nationwide Boycott Thanksgiving/ BlackFriday week. Act! 'We're Shutting It Down': Economic Blackout Set For Nov. 25 - Dec. 2 and www.themassblackout.com (another site provided by a reader) ~~~ If you’re worried and want...

UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 29, 2025 · 3:16:39 PM +00:00 · xaxnar I should mention I am going ahead with the model train order despite the Trump tariff price hike. That being said, I was just looking at some new Lionel product announcements in a series I had...

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

It started out as a puff piece interview for a friendly podcast. The host was Katie Miller, who is the wife of shadow President Stephen Miller. They talked about a lot of hobbies and foods and other ...

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...

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

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally...

I could have listed 1000 things on this list if I wasn’t busy cooking and eating and enjoying the holiday. But no matter how many I listed, all of you would ALWAYS be the most important to me. In ...

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day. I’m still recovering from the flu. I hate Windows 11. Lets hop to it then, shall we — . . . . . . . . . . Newdists, please grab cuppa and some food, and join us in the thread. . New Day Cafe is an Open...

The prosecutor who recently took over the � Georgia election interference case � against President � Donald Trump � and others said in a court filing Wednesday that he has ...

Maybe he’s going to replace it with mirrors... The New Republic It seems that bulldozing the White House wasn’t enough for Donald Trump. The builder in chief declared his intention Wednesday to “fix” the 100-year-old Reflecting Pool on the National...

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...

Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar I once met a young blond, blue-eyed music exec from Germany who told me that his favorite movie was The Harder They Come . To say I was shocked would be an ...

I posted this essay on my site yesterday, and the response/comments have been amazingly moving to me. I’m not sure if it works as a DK diary, but I’m going to repost it and see what you think. Here goes! ~ I read this troubling, illuminating, and...

Anyone who has been observing the behavior of Donald Trump in recent months cannot help but notice his rapidly declining ability to focus on critical issues, or comprehend simple subjects, or even to remain awake during White House meetings. His...

When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators — GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending — Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying to hide? Over the last two months, the Trump...

We began posting Good News Roundups (GNRs) in 2017. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating corporate media. Choosing not to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage...

This arrogant wannabe Nazi imagines a police state... Where he controls who does and doesn’t vote... Media Matters Asked what he’d do as president, Nick Fuentes says: “I would just take away the right to vote for tons of people. Women for sure.”...

Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! All my GNRs finish with four words: Truth Matters. Love Matters. However, sometimes I have wondered if that is really true. I mean, I know these ...

A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...