Dictators attack innocent relatives of their enemies. We are at that point
TFG appointed Chris Krebs (Wikipedia link) as the director of CISA, (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). CISA is an agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible...
View ArticleA Primer on Trump’s Fantasy Economy
The premise of Trump’s fantasy economy is that other countries pay the tariff, not us. Sounds too stupid to be true, but to him, he’s taxing another country.Consider this quote:“Our country was the...
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Keeping Democratic Control of Arizona's 7th Congressional District is...
Arizona is at a turning point. Following the heartbreaking loss of Congressman Raúl Grijalva, Arizona’s 7th Congressional District (AZ07) is heading into a special election—and the stakes couldn’t be...
View ArticleMid-Week Protest in Small Wisconsin City Supports Immigrant Workers
Protesters showed up in New London, WI on Wednesday morning in support of workers at the Tyson Foods plant there who have been on the job at Tyson and living in the community under the "Cuba, Haiti,...
View ArticleKagro in the Morning podcast (AUDIO): Thursday, April 10, 2025
xYouTube VideoListen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTubeSupport the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash*Today on KITM, David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back! Of course, you...
View ArticleTwo Disruptors, Two Different Games
Elon Musk played the game of influence with precision—charming, collaborating with, and ultimately outmaneuvering Donald Trump in the high-stakes world of power, politics, and public perception.In...
View ArticleWhat if everybody...
What does “the economy” mean to a person who is just scraping by, living hand to mouth and has no recent memory of any other way to live? What does “the stock market” mean to a person whose dinner is...
View ArticleGovernment Regulations are going bye-bye (this is very serious)
In case you hadn't noticed, Donald Trump has been buzz sawing through any regulations that stop his drill, baby, drill fetish. Specifically telling businesses that they can forget those lengthy EPA...
View ArticleADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE’s Electronic Warfare Systems Now Jamming Russian...
Early in the Spring of 2024 and throughout the month’s long hold up of aid to Ukraine by the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Russians unleashed a new front line weapon, the...
View ArticleChina initiates negotiations on tariffs...
Not with the USA. That likely won't happen anytime soon.But they are quickly initiating negotiations with current and former US allies.EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic spoke with Chinese Commerce...
View ArticleHow can the GOP playbook cite religion as their motivator!?
My God teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves. My Jesus healed the lepers, and befriended those who were shunned, and even washed the feet of a prostitute. My bible teaches us to give away our...
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If 2020 was stolen, then the current regime is illegitimate under the 22nd...
More distractions and illegal prosecutions of trumpian heretics as Krasnov builds personal wealth from destroying the US economy. If 2020 was rigged and 45 is actually 46, then the current regime...
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Photo Diary: San Diego Air and Space Museum
This is a nice museum with a great collection of airplanes and space artifacts.Some photos from a visit:The museumOutside is a Convair Sea Dart, an experimental supersonic seaplane designMontgomery...
View ArticleMAGA will suffer more from Trump's tax cuts. Musk - a welfare queen. GOP...
MAGA will suffer more from cuts to Medicaid, SSA, & Medicare. Elon Musk, the welfare queen, continues sucking taxpayer dollars.MAGA will suffer more from Trump's tax cuts.xxYouTube VideoWatch...
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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 about...
View ArticleWhere Trump Has Scorched Earth, Should We Seek Common Ground?
On Wednesday, our chaos-foisting, flip-flopping, stock price whipsawing Tariff King invited governor Gretchen Whitmer to the Oval Office. She accepted. Before joining him, she reached across the...
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A helicopter has crashed into the Hudson River off Manhattan
Crash site is off of Canal Street (that’s the ventilation tower for the Holland Tunnel). The helicopter is flipped upside-down in the water. It appears that all six people onboard are dead (five...
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Uncertainty became a commodity as Trump ignored his economic advisors in A...
Initially Peter Navarro got the blame for the current disaster that is Trump’s trade policy, but the insanity now reveals its arcane origin. Trump or his Russian handlers get more of the blame. Trump...
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You can bet that, if he could, Trump would command us all to buy one of his...
Just a short note on the status of the Cult of The Donald. According to Jason Weisberger:Members of Trump's cabinet, as well as Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to...
View ArticleAnother busy day for National Airport ATC....
Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan AirportTwo American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a...
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Secure Social Security by taxing the rich EQUALLY - add your name
There's a lot of Elon Musk/DOGE-fueled misinformation out there about how Social Security is "broken", a "scam", and "rife with fraud". 🤬The truth is that Social Security is the most effective cradle...
View ArticleFlorida teacher fired because she called a student the 'wrong' name
In Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," Portia pleads with Shylock to show mercy to Antonio by not demanding the 'pound of flesh' Antonio owed him after he could not pay back the money he had...
View ArticleTrump Prototypes Social Security "Virtual Death" Plans - The Terminator is Here
Trump and his henchmen who have taken over management of the Social Security Administration (SSA) are weaponizing this nation wide system that can determine whether you are alive or dead. Does that...
View ArticleWhite to move and mate in two #651 - Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion
Life and Games After the text-move, I left the stage. The situation is hopeless for Black, so when I came back Alexei graciously congratulated me on becoming World Champion. 1-0 Winning the world...
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Donald whines about his ambassadors
Donald is angry that his ambassadors aren't being confirmed fast enough for his satisfaction. Maybe it's because he's asking the Senate to confirm werewolves like Herschel Walker.Other nominations are...
View ArticleIT'S A CULT! Trump Priestess, Karoline Leavitt, Preaches to 'Trust in Trump'...
The tendency for the MAGA faithful to sink into despair would be completely understandable after the past couple of weeks of economic decline and the continuing dismantling of the U.S. government. That...
View ArticleEvening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday
WELCOMETO THE EVENING SHADEA SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISMYOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON...
View ArticleAP: Supreme Court Orders Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador Prison.
The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to return Kiama Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man that the government admitted, in a court filing, had been mistakenly kidnapped and transported to...
View ArticleWriteOn! A Series of Cliffs
Good evening, writers!I was reading a book a while back, and I noticed that the title (I forget just what it was, now) sounded a little mysterious. It wasn’t clear to me what it was implying, but...
View ArticleWrite On Fiction Works in Progress
Fiction writers are invited to post chapters and excerpts as comments at Fiction Works-in-Progress diaries like this one. At the top of yr comment, use the header button for your WIP title so its...
View ArticleSkincare company used AI video and images for an ad. This is why DKos should...
I’m one of the longest-tenured members of Daily Kos—I’ve been here since 2004, member ID 18,332 (before 2021, I was known as Christian Dem in NC). In the last two decades, I haven’t waded into meta...
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Water War with Mexico
It was going to happen eventually. Both Mexico and the United States share water from the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers with a treaty going back to 1944.When the treaty was signed, the allotments...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing: Thursday, April 10.
A friend of mine has been coming over Thursday evening for dinner and to watch The White Lotus, so I haven’t been around when KTK publishes. Not sure if she’ll be here today or not, but if she is...
View ArticleEconomic "Hardships".
Economic “hardships”Most Americans have NO idea of what hardship entails, economic or otherwise. Most think “living paycheck to paycheck” is hardship, no my dearies I got news for you getting a...
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Top Comments: Extended Family Retreat edition
A look at a gathering of my extended family’s male cousins, after-the-jump ...But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across...
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Down On The Farm
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...
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Trump's Third Presidential Term Problem Solved — The Week in Editorial...
Fortress AmericaxWalter J. Enright on Canada’s retaliatory tariffs after President Hoover signed the horrific 1930 act, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6/23/1930.[image or embed]— Randall Stephens...
View ArticleThe latest dirty trick on immigrants - mark them dead
I thought the bottom had been hit when the Customs and Border Patrol app known as CBP One was changed into CBP Home, as in "Go Home." The first option was letting the US government know you were going...
View ArticleSoc. Sec. Expert Warns DOGE Hastening Collapse, Privatization: 'BradCast'...
Guest: Dr. Eric Kingson of Social Security WorksAlso: Newsmax 'defamed' DominionGabbard reportedly committed voter fraud...Donald Trump's chaos coaster continues on today's BradCast. Our top on today's...
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For 50501: (On Thom Hartman Today)--The Singing Revolution That Freed the...
Thom and I talked about this on The Thom Hartmann Show today (at 1:44) and he really liked the idea! While the Trump Administration holds many cards, we still have the power of our numbers, our...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest April 10th 2025
There's a new comet in the sky, and it's already visible through binocularsOne of the great things about astronomy is that it's full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just can't...
View ArticleIVH: The Gits, Mia Zapata and the murder that shook Seattle
** TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT, MURDER **Tonight’s selections from Seattle band The Gits. A band on the verge of breaking out until tragedy struck. Originally published on May 11, 2023.It’s hard to...
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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,143: RU increasingly using strike packages comprised...
Russian forces conducted a large series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of April 9 to 10 and a ballistic missile strike against Dnipro City on the afternoon of April 10.The Ukrainian Air...
View ArticleGetting 'yippy' with it: Trump retreats & wait til you hear about the...
Wednesday was the rare reprieve from Wall Street hemorrhaging so naturally President Donald Trump felt the need to take a victory lap. Thank goodness Trump saved us from Trump when he put the pause on...
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IAN: April 11, 2025 Pupdate and other fun things
Happy Friday! Bit was off work yesterday, so we went for groceries then. Today I am staying home and mostly resting, barring something odd happening. Pups are growing. Grass is growing, and I’m getting...
View ArticleThe most important segment of Cory Booker’s underreported record-setting...
Cory Booker’s filibuster was substantive throughout. It beats record holder Strom Thurmond without the racist evil the latter represented.Cory Booker’s underreported record-setting filibusterxxYouTube...
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Stephen Miller blames “Marxist judge (who) now thinks she’s president of El...
What’s the over/under on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, returning to the US alive?What evidence is there for any US judge being a “Marxist”?The Trump administration conceded in a...
View ArticleThey’re not centering on criminals!
They’re admitting that they’re making mistakes and don’t want to bring them back from a El Salvador prison that American taxpayers are paying for.
View ArticleBob's Picture of the Day for April 11th 2025
Welcome to my Picture of the Day.I’m showcasing photographs I have taken over the past 48 years. I hope my images can give your brain a short break from the chaos.You will be able to find these diaries...
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