DL Open Thread Tuesday June 29th 2021

jason330

3 years ago

The last guy had horrible, unpopular ideas. And yet he got some shit done because he didn’t spend anytime trying to cajole or bargain with any mother-fuckers. If some shit didn’t work, he was already onto the next thing – he wasn’t mincing around apologizing and trying to make nice with people who hate his fucking guts.

Biden’s frantic weekend saves infrastructure deal but leaves him on thinner political ice

Even as kindergarten classes, and movie theaters were being shot up, Americans still somehow felt as if gun violence was something that happened to other people. People who were out and about at 3am and up to no good.

Times Square Shooting: 2nd Bystander Shot in Broad Daylight in 2 Months | NBC New York

I resisted putting up a “Delta V” yesterday, but it is looking like our ability to eat out and walk around maskless is going to be short-lived. “Remember early Summer 2021? That was nice.”

More than 10 million Australians go under lockdown in fight against Delta variant

Giving a massively wealthy Big Pharma company $19 in grants, because that’s what government does now.

MIDDLETOWN – A Delaware state investment board unanimously signed off on a $19 million taxpayer-funded grant to a Chinese pharmaceutical company Monday, clearing the way for a massive campus development in Middletown.

The grant, made to STA Pharmaceutical USA, a subsidiary of Shanghai-based WuXi AppTec, is the largest grant approval made during Gov. John Carney’s term, totaling nearly four times that given to Amazon for its massive Boxwood Road fulfillment center last year. It is the largest grant approved by the state since Bloom Energy was given $16.5 million to locate in Newark in 2011.