Archive for April, 2023
New Highlands Bunker on Fox/Dominion Settlement – We shoulda seen it coming.
Look, Dominion is not in business to “save democracy”. Nobody is going to save democracy except you getting out to vote and getting your lazy family out to vote. That said, I’m only a 1/4 of the way in on this (no traffic this mornin’), so I can’t rate this on my patented scale of 1 to 5 Blumberg Excelsior yellow legal pads.
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Our series on the Dominion v Fox trial comes to an abrupt close with a $787.5 million settlement. Chance from Chancery Daily joins Rob and Bill again to talk about what led to this settlement, what the implications are, and how we ended up covering so many trials.
Show Notes:
DL Open Thread Monday April 25 2023
WGMD gave this article a surprisingly even handed headline. Legislation to Reduce Shootings & Gun-related Crimes Introduced in DE State Senate Legislation to reduce shootings and other gun-related crimes in Delaware communities has been introduced in the State Senate. Senate Bill 2 is sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Elizabeth Lockman and House Majority Whip Melissa Minor-Brown […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 23, 2023
Rethugs Say It Out Loud: Save Party By Stopping Students From Voting. People of a certain age (mine) no doubt recall how Rethugs used this tactic to keep kids who went to school out of state from voting at their college addresses. In my case, Rockefeller. They’re trying again: A top Republican legal strategist told […]
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 (UFCW 27) public rally Noon Today
Local Healthcare Workers Demand New Contract Negotiation For more than a week, workers at Kentmere Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing center, along with representatives from United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 (UFCW 27), have been walking a picket line outside the Lovering Avenue care home to raise awareness about their contract situation. This ongoing […]
Bye, Asshole
Only Senator Chris Coons will be sad when this happens because he will advance into second (behind Sinema) in the “biggest Democratic asshole in the Senate” rankings. Jim Justice plans Senate launch for next week Gov. Jim Justice is planning to launch a long-awaited campaign against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, handing Republicans […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 22, 2023
SpaceX Launchpad Escaped Unscathed? Not So Fast, My Friend: Big rockets emit tremendous amounts of energy — and none more than SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket in the world, which generates thrust twice as powerful as the Saturn V rocket that flew the Apollo astronauts toward the moon. So when it lifted off Thursday, […]
A silver lining of Trumpism
If Trump can be credited for having accomplished anything positive, it is the fact that he shredded and, indeed, incinerated the idea that Republican christians are …you know… christian. Being lectured by sychopaths about how Godly there were was extremely tiresome. Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP. It isn’t coming back in […]
BREAKING: Supreme Court Keeps Abortion Pill Legal. For Now
The story: The Supreme Court on Friday retained full access for now to a key drug that has been taken by millions of women to terminate early pregnancies, its first major abortion-related decision since overturning Roe v. Wade’s constitutional guarantee of abortion rights last year. The court put on hold a lower court’s ruling in […]
BREAKING: Pot Bills To Become Law Without Carney’s Signature
The story: Gov. John Carney on Friday said he would let the bills to legalize marijuana and create a recreational industry become law without his signature, standing down from his aversions to recreational weed that put him at odds with his party. Delaware is the 22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana, after a nearly decades […]
Texas is not holding anything back
Today the Texas Senate passed a bill to force every public school classroom in the state to prominently display a copy of the Ten Commandments, and set prayer and bible reading times during the school day. In times like this I return to the constitution for comfort. …promote the general welfare of people we like, […]
Song of the Day 4/21: Katrina and the Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”
For no better reason than the nice weather, a slice of sunshine pop that’s become a standard since its release in 1985, when it reached No. 9 on the Hot 100. It’s been used in countless ads and soundtracks ever since. Technically, Katrina and the Waves weren’t a one-hit wonder — they had two other […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 21, 2023
Fox To Pay For Dominion Settlement With–Higher Cable Fees? If they can get away with it, yes: These fees are the majority of revenue for Fox, more even than advertising, and they are significantly higher than those charged by the network’s competitors. Fox has been able to raise prices and charge disproportionately high rates due […]
Carney to Run for Carper’s Senate Seat – Rumor Watch
I’ve heard it now from two unaffiliated sources, so I take it to be good news. Carney has a resume that reads like an unimproved 1998 micro-soft word resume template. He has all the charisma of an abandoned dishwasher, and would certainly lose a contested primary.
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