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-edited to correct Allison’s name- Back in November I wrote an article titled After research and some thought, I came to this conclusion: Trump is an Epstein co-conspirator I received a major slap on the hand for spreading conspiracy theories. (This is...
by Aluminati
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on Mon Mar 09, 2026 at 10:17 AM PDT
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In my 21-plus years at Daily Kos, I’ve only waded into meta matters twice by my count. This will be the third—and on paper, it should be an easy call for Kos and Co. Lately, we’ve turned to Internet archiving sites for research. While the best-known is...
by Darrell Lucus
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on Mon Feb 23, 2026 at 06:51 AM PST
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I’ve got some screenshots of the new site for you! Front page, Community menu: As you can see, we’ve simplified the navigation significantly, while keeping the overall look and feel mostly the same. We are going to do a design refresh later this year,...
by kos
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on Fri Feb 20, 2026 at 01:25 PM PST
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Every week brings a flood of news stories. President Donald Trump says something unhinged. Republicans break something new. Corporations bend the knee to this administration. Corporate media trips ...
by kos
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on Sat Feb 21, 2026 at 08:00 AM PST
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Guys. Guys. Guys. I just got my first real look at a working build of Daily Kos on WordPress, with Viafoura comments fully integrated. (If that sentence is gibberish to you, you can read about why we are moving to WordPress here, and what the heck...
by kos
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on Tue Feb 17, 2026 at 09:56 AM PST
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Ring, the doorbell camera firm owned by Amazon, ran a commercial during the Super Bowl about finding a dog. �It is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen — not because that showed how ...
by angryea
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on Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 05:00 AM PST
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This index covers groups of who kosaks are — where/what we come from, beliefs we live by and practice (e.g., preppers, faiths, etc) for finding community. besides issues we talk about or take action on. See The DK Group FOR Groups to find...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 14, 2026 at 03:33 PM PST
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We shared a site migration update over the weekend, and it generated a lot of thoughtful feedback and questions. After reading through all of it, one thing became clear: There’s actually far less for people to worry about than even I expected. Most of...
by kos
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on Mon Feb 02, 2026 at 02:58 PM PST
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If you’re feeling a knot in your stomach every time you hear the words “new site,” you’re not alone, and you’re definitely not wrong to feel that way. Change is stressful, especially when it touches something you use every day—something that feels...
by kos
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on Fri Jan 30, 2026 at 04:05 PM PST
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Two of the key issues are: [1] Ability of trusted users to copy non-English/non-ASCII/non=Anglophone (w.a.s.p.?) pronouns in particular — personal names, place names, terms for departments of governments among Native American tribes, across the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Jan 29, 2026 at 06:13 PM PST
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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.
Abolish ICE, ...
by Andrew Mangan
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on Sun Jan 18, 2026 at 04:00 PM PST
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Facebook owner Meta launched itself deeper into the Republican orbit on Monday, tapping former Trump administration adviser Dina Powell McCormick as its new president and vice chair.�
The move is ...
by Alex Samuels
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on Mon Jan 12, 2026 at 04:00 PM PST
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I had been wavering on a topic for this week’s contribution, until I was inspired by a four-word reply to one of my comments. Let’s set the stage. Tuesday morning, I had to be somewhere exactly ...
by foresterbob
223 comments
on Thu Jan 08, 2026 at 07:30 AM PST
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As noted in Kos diaries on the transition to Wordpress, and discussed in this diary by mettle fatigue, the Image Library is going away. No more looking for a pic of a certain person, animal, place or whatever to put in your comment or diary on KOS, you...
by strawbale
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on Wed Dec 31, 2025 at 03:21 PM PST
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Latest updates, linked to kos’s diaries, thru February 5, are at the end of the post. Revising this one repeatedly, as kosaks have been able to get some of our concerns heard and as timelines have changed, is not feasible, so existing text is,...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Dec 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM PST
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In October 2019, a BBC investigation found a 16-year-old girl from Guinea being advertised for sale on Instagram. Her price was approximately $3,800. The listing included her photograph. She was one ...
by Christopher Armitage
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on Mon Dec 29, 2025 at 05:00 PM PST
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Here's kos's December 12. 2025 post on progress of the site migration to Wordpress: When I first read it, it had far too few recs and comments as a measure of extent of readers seeing it, and had only been reblogged to a few DK groups, only two of...
by mettle fatigue
143 comments
on Sun Dec 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM PST
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The hell with 2025. Donald Trump came roaring back into office and immediately unleashed the political equivalent of shock and awe— testing institutions , normalizing cruelty , ...
by kos
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on Sun Dec 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM PST
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Hi all! Daily Kos is in the middle of the biggest transformation we’ve taken on in more than 20 years, and I want to keep you fully in the loop as we build it. This is your community, and you deserve to see how it’s coming together behind the scenes....
by kos
212 comments
on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 02:30 PM PST
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Yesterday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett announced her run for the US Senate instead of filing to run in either of two House districts in TX where she could have chosen to run. Instead of thanking Candidate Crockett for doing her part to try to...
by lpeacock
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on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 03:46 AM PST
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