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Art in the aquarium
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The Oregon ...
Ojibwa 01/21/2020 9
New Day Cafe: How to Spot a Lie
Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. We all have periodic occasions to call into question the truth of someone’s account. According to experts, body language and facial cues ...
samanthab 01/21/2020 145
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… While We’re Waiting All eyes are on the Senate today...well, assuming the exalted and high holy gatekeeper Mitch McConnell allows our eyes to be on it, that is. To set the mood, here’s the latest from Motor Trend’s...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/21/2020 120
Overnight News Digest: The Underground Railroad Edition
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. ...
maggiejean 01/20/2020 11
Monday night owls: New Texas fossil-fuel projects could add hugely to greenhouse gas emissions
Justin Miller at the Texas Observer writes—As Fossil Fuel Industry Invests Billions in New Texas Facilities, it Could Unleash a Huge Emissions Bomb: A hulking new $10 billion ethane cracker near Corpus Christi set for completion by 2022. A trio of...
Meteor Blades 01/20/2020 46
Top Comments - Forget selfies, try these instead
A favorite author of mine (who has written just one book so far!) just tweeted some advice for ‘new writers.’ It was to write everything down. I think her idea was that you never know ...
BeninSC 01/20/2020 25
PWB Peeps Open Thread: MLK Jr.'s Dream
For full text of speech: archives.gov I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live ou t the true meaning of ...
strawbale 01/20/2020 54
Street Prophets Coffee Hour: MLK Day of Service
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today many are honoring the legacy of Dr. King by volunteering at a service event. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of ...
linkage 01/20/2020 5
New Day Cafe: NY Outsider Art Fair, 2020
Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. The 2020 Outsider Art Fair closed yesterday in New York City.
samanthab 01/20/2020 130
Monday OT: January 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 20 is day 20 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Chaos 20, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.3.6 by the Mayan Long Count - Kindly Reduce ...
enhydra lutris 01/20/2020 10
Cheers and Jeers: Monday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Well, That's Three Years Down the 15-Flush Terlet Hey, everybody, we did it. Unless Lord Dampnut decides to push the nuclear button before 12 noon today, we survived 75 percent of the Trump administration's “chaos and...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/20/2020 169
Overnight News Digest January 19, 2020
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. ...
side pocket 01/19/2020 28
Sunday night owls open thread. IMF chief: inequality, climate crisis heading us to economic disaster
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of International Monetary Fund, warned Friday at a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics that rising inequality and the ...
Meteor Blades 01/19/2020 73
Top Comments: Trump Year 3 comes to a close
Donald John Trump took the Oath of Office on January 20, 2017. Tomorrow marks the end of the third year of his administration. I try to keep an eye open for the mile marker posts of life and being ...
John M Webb 01/19/2020 16
Sunday snippets: 60,000 expected at Vegas gun show; Trump's Iran lies; student workers owed millions
• Arbitrator says U. of California, Berkeley, owes student workers $5 million in back pay: The United Auto Workers Local 2865, the union for student employees, filed a grievance three years ago claiming the university intentionally scheduled student...
Meteor Blades 01/19/2020 13
North Carolina Open Thread: Winter? Let's go to the beach!
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD for Sunday, January 19, 2019 244th Weekly Edition This is a weekly feature of   North Carolina Blue . We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in North ...
randallt 01/19/2020 7
Minnesota Open Thread: Early voting for primary begins
Hello, Minnesota. Welcome to the Twin Cities Kossacks‘ Minnesota Open Thread, a weekly post for all things Minnesotan. Join us to Connect, Unite and Act with other Minnesota Kossacks. Posting most Sundays OPEN THREAD — SUNDAY MORNING — Jan 19, 2020...
idlemoments 01/19/2020 5
New Day Cafe: Help Wanted
Good morning, Newdists. Some of you may have read my farewell diary for Kitchen Table Kibitzing last week. As I wrote in that diary, my life has changed in ways that—although they are positive ...
Chrislove 01/19/2020 112
The Inoculation Project 1/19/2020: Ozobots for a Kentucky library, Boe-Bots for Rosebud
Last week, we completed our 800th project! This week, we’re helping bring coding materials to a Kentucky elementary school library, and robotics kits to a South Dakota high school that serves the Rosebud Reservation. We hope that readers who support...
nomandates 01/19/2020 24
Who's afraid of the 1619 Project?
The 1619 Project , the brainchild of New York Times staff reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones , has had an impact on the foundation of the way in which we approach American history and its intertwined ...
Denise Oliver Velez 01/19/2020 389
Saturday night owls open thread. Joe Stiglitz: The truth about the 'booming' Trump economy
Joe Stiglitz , the 2001 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. His most recent book is The Price of ...
Meteor Blades 01/18/2020 115
Top Comments: Wolf Puppies Play Fetch
This is a pretty interesting item that came over the transom. Dogs are domesticated wolves, but wolves are not dogs. Dogs have been hanging around humans for thousands of years, and that fact has changed what dogs look like and how they behave. For a...
gizmo59 01/18/2020 35
PWB Peeps Open Thread: The Caturday Evening Post
Many are the joys of posts for pooties. ...
strawbale 01/18/2020 79
WYFP: Again Another Open Thread
Not out at the farm this weekend, due to the crappy weather. Also January 18: January 25: February 1: February 8: Anyone?
JeffW 01/18/2020 20
What's For Dinner? v14.28 -- Ethiopian Lentils
Ethiopian food part 1 is here ; this has the recipe for niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter) that is needed below. Misir Wat (Ethiopian lentil stew) from The Daring Gourmet — for ...
esquimaux 01/18/2020 33
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act takes a step forward in the House, this week in the war on workers
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act took a step toward a full House vote  on Wednesday when it passed in the House Committee on Education and Labor. “ The federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)
Laura Clawson 01/18/2020 4
Water features at the Oregon Garden
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The Oregon ...
Ojibwa 01/18/2020 4
Saturday snippets: Petition says WI regulators undercut solar; fact-checking Trump's 'biggest ever'
• YouTube, despite pledge to do better, keeps promoting disinformation videos denying climate science: A new report by the global activist NGO Avaaz reveals that, despite YouTube’s pledge to combat misinformation, the popular video site owned by Google...
Meteor Blades 01/18/2020 18
DKos Asheville Open Thread: Cold and Homeless
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, 18th 2020. We offer this space every weekend to share what we're up to in Western North Carolina and beyond. DKos Asheville and other local and state...
randallt 01/18/2020 11
"Who's "REAL"... anyway?"
Who’s “REAL”… anyway? I remember watching a clip of a political rally in 2008 in which Sarah Palin (ugh… the first sign of the apocalypse) said she was so glad to be with “real ...
PamKeithFL 01/18/2020 65
New Day Cafe - Saturday: Orange
Good morning, Newdists. It’s Caturday. Diary Bird: Hooded Oriole — Icterus cucullatus Declined sharply in southern Texas in recent decades, perhaps owing to cowbird parasitism. May be making a slight comeback in that area. Still fairly common farther...
Crimson Quillfeather 01/18/2020 200
Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever
In 1839, Louis Daguerre aimed his camera at the Boulevard du Temple in Paris and made an exposure of at least 7 minutes. He produced a lovely photograph, or really a daguerreotype: The street and sidewalks must have been fairly busy, but because the...
skralyx 01/17/2020 279
Richard Wolff on Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & Corp.
Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & the Corporation. Forget about your preconceived notions. Please listen in detail. Please consider...
Egberto Willies 01/17/2020 4
Top Comments- To the Contrary...
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community ...
Chitown Kev 01/17/2020 9
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY!
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: Love, Lev Edition "This is the latest twist in the Ukraine impeachment scandal: Giuliani's former BFF man Lev Parnas says everyone in Trump World was involved: the president, Mike Pence, and even...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/17/2020 172
Australian PM Morrison: "we are working to - outlaw these indulgent and selfish" Climate Protests
Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of coal. Australia's Leader Called For A Crackdown On Environmentalists Before Fires Broke Out Governments are increasingly casting environmental activism as a new kind of extremism, punishing and marginalizing...
Lefty Coaster 01/17/2020 97
Cartoon: Climate action distractions
You know Joe Kennedy is to the right of Senator Ed Markey when half of the establishment already endorsed his primary challenge while I’m in favor of the incumbent. Here's a cartoon I did for The ...
BrianMcFadden 01/17/2020 7
8 in 10 black Americans say Trump is racist, two-thirds think it's a bad time to be black in America
Donald Trump once said he’d get 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for reelection. I’m thinking no. A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll also tells a completely different story. Go figure: While personally optimistic about their own lives, black...
Aldous J Pennyfarthing 01/17/2020 18
Black Kos, Week In Review
COMMENTARY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS By Black Kos Editor, Sephius1 You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be successful—unless, like Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, your goal in life is to be an aerospace engineer. Ms. Ericsson-Jackson,...
Black Kos 01/17/2020 142
Trump blasted for craven decision to gut Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch rules on her birthday
Kos really needs to have more space available for the headline. Here’s the full (and much better) headline from Raw Story www.rawstory.com/...: ‘Relentlessly obsessed’ Trump blasted for ‘craven’ decision to gut Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch...
Eyesbright 01/17/2020 109
Street Prophets Friday: Slice of Life
Greetings and welcome to yet another bit of fluff with pretty much the same intro as last week’s offering. I’ve got a few photos from a walk in the country, a drawing and treats! Last weekend ...
Marko the Werelynx 01/17/2020 16
New Day Cafe - Friday: Craters
Newdists, it’s Friday. Y’all know the routine: grab something to drink and something to eat and join us in the cafe.
Crimson Quillfeather 01/17/2020 132
Renewable Friday: Scotland to Reach 100% Renewable Energy This Year
They said it couldn't be done, but you don't tell a Scottish engineer that when there is money-saving technology to deploy. So if the UK Brexits from the EU, and Scotland secedes from the UK, how ...
Mokurai 01/17/2020 156
Senator Kamala Harris calls for halt to GOP nominations of judges during impeachment. GOP complies.
As reported in the ABA Journal: On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, called for a halt to the advancement of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees during the impeachment proceedings against him. “During the time when...
DigitusImpudicus 01/16/2020 173
Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals stunning bald head and struggle with alopecia
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts vulnerably revealed to her critics and die-hard fans alike that she is bald on Thursday, after suffering a fierce battle with alopecia that cost her her cherished crown. "This is my official public revealing," she...
Lauren Floyd 01/16/2020 237
I Love You!
I just wanted to take a break from all of the strife and stress, from the elections, from the climate crisis, from the ‘impeached and awaiting trial’ President, and let you know that I love you. You are likely feeling a little overwhelmed with all of...
NeverEverAgain 01/16/2020 16
Indians 101: American Indian religions 100 years ago, 1920
Since the founding of the United States, there had been an assumption that American Indians should abandon their religions and become Christians. By 1920, Indian religions were still illegal but, in ...
Ojibwa 01/16/2020 4
WTF? Report indicts centrist Dem senate candidate, but its headline smears his progressive opponent
Editorial bias against the black female progressive candidate in North Carolina’s Democratic senate primary, State Sen. Erica Smith, is on blatant display this morning in the state’s leading newspaper, McClatchy’s Raleigh News & Observer. Ignoring...
DocDawg 01/16/2020 76
Racist dog whistle sounded to justify having homeless moms stormed, evicted from vacant Oakland home
Black mothers and other protesters are rallying around six homeless women who refused to leave the vacant Oakland property they were evicted from last November, sparking public demonstrations calling for more affordable housing in the Bay Area and less...
Lauren Floyd 01/16/2020 107
Cartoon: Uncle Trump Wants You
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RubenBolling 01/16/2020 103
Renewable Thursday: Yes, Oil and Gaslighting, But Coal, Too
"Coal is good for you and the environment," say coal profiteers, not least the greedy, lying railroads. They also carry exploding tar sands oil . And sometimes spill chlorine , metam sodium ,
Mokurai 01/16/2020 8
The Crucible of Religious Freedom in Our Time
This is part of an annual series of posts here on Daily Kos in the run up to and on Religious Freedom Day. So far, there have been at least two (here and here) and I expect there will be more. The Day commemorates the enactment of the Virginia Statute...
Frederick Clarkson 01/15/2020 34
Dying of Despair
Maria Fernandes was a good-hearted American with a family, ambitions and a rock-solid work ethic. She also juggled three part-time jobs to make ends meet and grabbed much-needed sleep in her SUV between shifts. She left the engine running during one of...
Tom Conway 01/15/2020 125
HUD will finally release $8 billion of the $18 billion illegally withheld Puerto Rico relief funds
The Department of Housing (HUD) is going to release more than $8 billion in emergency disaster aid funding to Puerto Rico, sources tell Politico. There's nearly $18 billion that Congress has authorized since 2017's Hurricanes Maria and Irma that still...
Joan McCarter 01/15/2020 42
Renewable Wednesday: How to Stick Trump's Finger in His Eye
Donald J. "Jerk-in-Office" Trump, Republicans generally, the fossil fool industry, the MSM, and some national Energy Ministers don't want it known that we are solving Global Warming. But there are ...
Mokurai 01/15/2020 5
Religious Freedom Day is On the Way!
For the past few years, the Religious Freedom Day group here at Daily Kos has sponsored a blogathon in the run up to and including Religious Freedom Day, January 16th. We hope you will join us to commemorate a piece of legislation for which the founder...
Frederick Clarkson 01/14/2020 16
Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile. Remembering when we had a real President.
He’s still my President. He gives me hope. Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez As the United States spirals into chaos, with a dangerous, lying, racist, xenophobe at the helm, ...
Black Kos 01/14/2020 185
Renewable Tuesday: Divest from Evil, Invest in Good
I have called attention to various moves to divest tens of trillions of dollars from fossil foolishness and the MIC. Everybody also needs to invest in the clean economy, whether in corporate ...
Mokurai 01/14/2020 10
EV Tuesday: Drivers and Passengers Love Electric Taxis. What about Republicans?
Safer, more luxurious for drivers and passengers both, much cheaper to run, silent, no diesel stink…Even Republicans will have to accept enjoy riding in electric cabs, saving tax money, and seeing solar panels on taxi garages. There will be charging...
Mokurai 01/14/2020 18
The supernatural
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let us ...
Ojibwa 01/14/2020 39