DL Open Thread: Monday, March 8, 2021

Coons called out for his "despicable and unacceptable" vote. Meanwhile, Tio Bernie says, "if any senator believes this is the last time they will cast a vote on whether or not to give a raise to 32 million Americans, they are sorely mistaken."   So Coons will have another shot to vote like the big follower of Jesus Christ he claims to be.   Via Common Dreams: Shameful-Millionaire Senators Vote Against Popular Minimum Wage Derek Chauvin, Murder of George Floyd, goes on trial this week  At trial, prosecutors will argue Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for roughly nine minutes—including nearly three minutes in which Floyd was unresponsive.
“Please, please, please, I can’t breathe. Please, man,” Floyd said in the viral body-camera footage, “I’m about to die.”
Chauvin's defense team will argue that Floyd was asking for it (by being African American).
Rehoboth Beach trail extension will allow cyclists to take the Junction and Breakwater trail from Lewes all the way into Rehoboth. Media Matters takes a deep dive into the social science underlying Fox News efforts to make its audience feel victimized.
Happy National Women's Day!

DL Open Thread Sunday, March 7, 2021

Interesting article at Daily Kos examining the congressional districts with the biggest voting shifts in the presidential race from 2016 to 2020. The Republicans made big Latino-fueled gains in south…

Senate Passes COVID Relief Package

50-49. Republican Senator Sullivan from Alaska missed the vote for a family emergency: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/stimulus-update-us-relief-bill-03-06-21/index.html The House must vote on the Senate version before President Biden can sign it.  They will…

Highlands Bunker E117 – Radical Reimagination

REV talks with some folks who have an imaginary friend named Jesus... is what I would say if he was speaking with white evangelicals. [White American Christianity is bullshit.] As he is speaking with Central Delaware NAACP President Fleur McKendall and Network Delaware organizer Tyeisha Grier on the role of religion and solidarity in organizing I guess I should reign in the scoffing disrespect.   As usual, Delaware's foremost public intellectual gets to the crux.
E117 - Radical Reimagination (w/Fleur McKendall, Tyeisha Grier)

Ha!

When are white men ever going to catch a break in this country?
Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man charged with breaking into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and stealing her mail during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, threw a tantrum during a virtual court hearing on Thursday, yelling at the judge and his own lawyers that it wasn’t “fair” that he was still in jail weeks after his arrest.