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Leave it to Donald Trump to grossly exploit a true human tragedy in order to exalt himself and divert attention from his multitude of failures. The latest example stems from the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. by an Afghan...

FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have been excelling at using taxpayer dollars to fund their elaborate travel plans. The two were spotted over the weekend ...

Mother Jones dropped a crucial analysis this week: Lede: Hours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his constitutionally vested powers to define “man” and “woman.” In an executive order, he said his administration would...

Happy Thanksgiving to All My DK Family. Please enjoy this classic Arlo tune with me. I have posted the full lyrics below the video in case you feel like singing along. Lyrics — This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the...

Yet another staggeringly humiliating defeat for this remarkably incompetent, corrupt, and yes, almost certainly criminal Department of Justice. Their historic ineptitude, towering arrogance, and ravidly extreme and blind partisanship are some of the...

Wishing all your Thanksgiving preparations are going well. Whether you are traveling, cooking, cocooning, spending it with family, chosen family, friends, or alone set yourself up for having the ...

I don’t have much as this is breaking news. The suspicion that other Republican lawmakers might follow MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene out of Congress appears to have some foundation. U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced on Saturday that...

A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have health/behavior issues with your pets, feel free to...

These days, news rushes at us like water from a firehose. At least�the�news includes bad stuff for the felon and the GOP (except for all the money they are stealing, and I hope we can get some of ...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with contractors (as usual). His architect has taken a step back as the president personally manages a project twice the size, and even taller than the White House itself. It’s a shopping mall...

Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. In the beginning, there were turkeys. Benjamin Franklin, of Founding...

In the US, many people are traveling to visit relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday. �It is meant to be a celebration of family and togetherness (never mind it’s based on Native Americans helping ...

Candace Owens spent her weekend telling millions of followers that the President of France wants her dead. Not metaphorically. Not politically. Actually, literally dead—murdered by an elite French tactical unit working with Israeli operatives, funded...

Since stepping back into office, President Donald Trump has somehow been even more ludicrous than the first time around. And if there’s one thing he’s proven to the world, it’s that there’s ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to build a missile defense system is not going so well. Indeed, it seems stalled out at the “ concepts of a plan ” stage.� The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” ...

Open thread this week. Please post links in the comments. Anytime you hit a paywall on articles linked in diaries or comments (or anywhere online) try using Archive.Today to see if you can get ...

Welcome to this afternoon’s PWB diary! Glad to have you join us for a few minutes of relaxing. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate it. So loosen your tie ( ...

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 ...

By � Susan Jaffe �for KFF Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make ...

The Wall Street Journal says the Trump/Putin peace plan is all about money. I’m shocked — SHOCKED! — that they would sell out Ukraine for 40 pieces of silver. 2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law...

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...

Good day, Peeps, and happy Thanksgiving! How’s your prep work coming along? Any disasters yet? We can commiserate below. But first off, A gentle reminder of how we do things: � Do not ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins boasted on Monday that the Trump administration was lowering costs and inflation, only for conservative CNBC host Joe Kernen to note that the figures were simply back to where they stood when Donald Trump took...

This is the weekend before Thanksgiving and like many people across the US we are planning and prepping for the big meal. Over the last 4-5 years my partner Mark has taken the lead on the main dish ...

From Raw Story, Nov. 29, by Carl Gibson: Trump wrote in a Friday post to his Truth Social platform that he was endorsing Nasry "Tito" Asfura in Sunday's presidential election in Honduras, and that his administration would be "very supportive" of...

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 ...

Published by official Russian news sources. (Isveztia) This is how economies collapse. Bank runs get out of control from people pulling their deposits because they worry if their money is safe. People wonder if their bank deposits can be seized by the...

Lindsey Halligan is not having a great day. But you know who is probably having a worse day? President Donald Trump.� Halligan’s indictments against both former FBI Director James Comey and New ...

The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back. By� Elena Bruess �for Capital & ...

______________________________________________________ “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.” ― Michael Crichton ______________________________________________________ NOVEMBER...

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. GOP ...

________________________________________________________ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them,...

Yes, I know. Before we get into it, there have been many holocausts. There was the Armenian Genocide. The Rwandan Massacre. The Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Guatemalan Genocide. The Killing Fields of Cambodia. The Ukrainian Famine of...

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...

It was recently revealed that Larry Summers joked about women having lower IQs in an email to Jeffrey Epstein. I find Summers' narrow fixation on biological determinism fascinating because it's ...

Presumably because the Justice Department is now run by people who don’t actually have any idea what attorneys do, it dropped a giant data demand on all 93 offices Monday—with a deadline of ...

Welcome to another Saturday night of music, memories, and conversations. Gratitude is always in season.� U2 —�Landlady Bono is so grateful to Ali. When the band was just starting, she was the ...

One morning, on a whim, I said to my wife, “let’s go check out the Burke Museum.” So, we did.�In long form, the museum is known as the Burke�Museum of Natural History and Culture . In short ...

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...

I was going to make this an open mic night (and you can still put in whatever you want—nobody’s checking sources on your selections), but then I thought about the recent news �that listening to ...

I haven’t seen a word in the USA media about this story so I am putting it out here. This is a major disaster. Sri Lanka is an island about the size of West Virginia and sits off the southeast coast of India. It is home to about 22 million people....

Social Media's version of stochastic counterterrorism in X is Rentier Capitalism amok Translation of Mister Orange ‘accordion hands’ Krasnov killing the Department of Education (or putting it on life-support) demoting ‘professional’ college degrees:...

The advice offered by Donald Trump and his Cabinet cronies has always been something less than credible, and more likely dangerous. It began years ago when Trump told people diagnosed with COVID to inject bleach, and it continues through his recent...

I do not live in Boston. The nuance of the city’s politics is likely lost on me. The closest i came to Boston politics was working with an engineer who was Mayor Menino’s (RIP) brother in law who had some interesting insights. Like when his sister...

I’m recycling old recipes again. This is probably my favorite recipe that I found here on dKos.�I love pretty much any kind of noodle dish, but these are awesome. --- Singapore Noodles from� ...

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine, crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev, has hit a dead end, The Atlantic reports. Vance bet Kyiv would cave after a corruption scandal, but Zelensky held firm. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Operational...

Greetings one and all. I hope you all are safe and well. I’m sorry to say that I’ve got a bit of a personal medical issue that our awesome public health system is addressing promptly, but it may ...

President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ...