DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 8, 2021
Sorry for the delayed posting. Was out lit-dropping for Kim Stock today. It was worth it.
Barr Authorized Search Of Reporters’ Phone Records. You know, to stop those damn leaks about Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. He will go down in infamy. Some excerpts:
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials.
News organizations and First Amendment advocates have long decried the government practice of seizing journalists’ records in an effort to identify the sources of leaks, saying it unjustly chills critical newsgathering. The last such high-profile seizure of reporters’ communications records came several years ago as part of an investigation into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the New York Times. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into Russian election interference.
It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a department spokesman said the decision to do so came in 2020, during the Trump administration. William P. Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general for nearly all of that year, before departing Dec. 23, declined to comment.
Remember ‘Hydroxychloroquine’? It was Trump’s miracle COVID cure for a minute. Somehow, Oklahoma got a refund on its super-stash. I wonder if Biden can do the same for our national stockpile of this miracle elixir.
Pro-Trump Prophet Kicked Out Of His Own Church. No, not for being rabidly pro-Trump. He founded the ‘Global Fire Church and Global Fire Ministries’ in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, after all. Rather, for ‘a pattern of “unscriptural and unbiblical behavior…in the home, on the road, and in the House of God” that went uncorrected despite being called on it “numerous times.” I prophesy his appearance at a rally with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz in the near future.
A History Of The ‘Worker Shortage’ Crisis:
In reality, though, this should be understood as the latest iteration of a question that’s plagued the owning class for centuries: How can they get everyone to do awful jobs for them for awful pay?
Quite the informative read.
Delaware Rethugs Introduce Voter Suppression Package. Won’t go anywhere, but it gives them something to pretend to do.
What do you want to talk about?
Want a crummy job with no benefits and a pathetic excuse for pay? The Field Is Wide Open as marginal employers can’t fill jobs nobody wants. Other countries have dramatically higher minimum wages then America (what a shock!) and universal healthcare. Believe the old expression for it was Wage Slaves.
That Barr story…Jesus. Can you imagine if The last guy got another term? Barr was already 2/3rds of the way to establishing the DOJ as Trumps personal KGB.
I suggest that these colleagues of mine hop an Amtrak train to Florida by way of Georgia so they can embrace other like-minded ballot box impeding “patriots” of their ilk.
It’s not that it won’t go anywhere it’s the embarrassing reality that we have still not introduced a “mail-in ballot” bill this year. I’ve certainly urged leadership to do just that in numerous caucus gatherings but “deaf ears” prevail.
Representative John Kowalko
Time for you to retire. You’ve milked the system for long enough.
Pete DuPont died https://baytobaynews.com/stories/former-gov-pete-du-pont-dies-at-86,47523?
The fiscally-conservative, Delaware Way government that we have now is DuPont’s legacy, for better or worse. Nobody has sought to challenge the basic corporate/government partnership that DuPont put in place.
Somebody should.
Bethany Hall Long?
We’re talking the Financial Center Development Act (legalized usury); the House of Corporations, both legal and illegal; income tax bracket consolidation, and so much more. DuPont and Carper were pretty much the same person, except DuPont had all the vision, and Carper, um, didn’t.
Average US household credit card debt is $7,149. That’s the amount they can’t pay down and probably never will, and keeps rolling over at Pete’s usury rates.