A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump won. Now what? Time to grieve for our country and then figure out how to move forward. Trump makes election history with these shameful firsts It’s not always good to make history. A […]
In her concession speech, Kamala Harris offered an image for a long fight.
The Playmaker has closed a U.S. distribution deal for Canadian crime thriller “The G” with Dark Sky Films. Directed by Karl R. Hearne, the film follows Ann Hunter, a.k.a. The G, who battles a corrupt eldercare system. “The G” will be represented by the Playmaker at next week’s American Film Market. Inspired by real events, […]
Analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which was formed after two large clusters of galaxies collided, supports the existence of dark matter. X-ray: NASA / CXC / CfA / M. Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA / STScI; Magellan / U. Arizona / D. Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA / STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan / U. […]
Extreme-mass-ratio binary inspiralling in an environment of dark matter. The movement of small black holes creates a dense wake trail that slows it down, affecting the gravitational wave signal. Credit: Beatriz Oliveira and Rodrigo Vicente. A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores the effects of ultralight dark matter in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), which could […]
By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s efforts to restore power to the island were derailed for a third time late on Saturday, Cuban authorities said shortly before midnight, leaving millions in the dark and raising fresh questions over the viability of the government’s bid to reestablish electrical service. Cuba’s national electrical grid first crashed […]
In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories now that the woman who put them there, Sheikh Hasina, is gone.
John Lasell, a character actor known for roles on Dark Shadows and The Twilight Zonehas died. He was 95. Lasell, of Los Angeles, died Oct. 4, according to a family notice. Lasell appeared regularly on the 1960s camp horror soap Dark Shadows. He played Dr. Peter Guthrie, a vampire hunter. Jonathan Frid played vampire Barnabus […]
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 70,500 viruses previously unknown to science1many of them weird and nothing like known species. The RNA viruses were identified using metagenomics, in which scientists sample all the genomes present in the environment without having to culture individual viruses. The method shows the potential of AI to explore […]
When Elon Musk sauntered onstage at Donald Trump’s most recent Pennsylvania rally, wearing an Occupy Mars T-shirt and an all-black Make America Great Again hat, he declared himself not only a Trump supporterbut a heavy for “dark MAGA.” “Ooh, dark MAGA,” Jon Stewart quipped on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show. “I didn’t know it […]
