DL Open Thread: Friday, March 3, 2023
Medicaid Expansion Comes To--North Carolina! Heretofore only one of 11 states to not embrace the Affordable Care Act. A rare bipartisan political deal that's worth embracing: The agreement from Senate…
The denial dog that never barked
Fox News has fully exposed itself as the for profit propaganda arm of the GOP. Democrats are now free to stop pretending that it is "news" in a traditional sense. Even members of the media fraternity are now saying that Fox News propaganda arm of the GOP. But here is the interesting thing - nobody in the GOP or at Fox News denies it. They are candid - Fox News isn't a news service, its a propaganda service.
No defenders of Fox have risen and attempted to make the case that Fox News is legitimate news. Steve Bannon simply says that they are part of the GOP and a part that should be be doing a better job electing Republicans.
Welcome to DelaWOKE – MAGA owned firms wondering when whites will ever get a fair shake in this state as Delaware moves to increase diversity in state-funded construction projects
Delaware using pilot studies to increase diversity in state-funded construction projects Anitra Johnson In a state where Black and Hispanic people make up one-third of the population, the likelihood that…
The Real Target
The New York Times and other Trans-hating media outlets will want you to think that it isn't the trans youths they hate but the doctors and their diabolical sex change…
Expand Social Security Benefits by $2,400 a year & fully fund the program through 2095
Now that... (above) is something Democrats could run on and win, if they only had the guts to do it. Sure they'd have moderate ass-wipes like Coons and Kaine fretting…
Song of the Day 3/2: Big Louisiana, Willy Rafus and Arthur Davis, “Let Your Hammer Ring”
A bunch of millionaires known as "U.S. senators" have been sitting around in their Washington, D.C., offices pretending that the richest country in the history of the world simply can't…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 2, 2023
'Woke' Banks Fight Back--And Win. The good news?: Even in conservative states, the proposals went down. The bad news?: It's because the banks did the fighting back: Conservatives have long…
Jamie Raskin is probably right, we should insist on the correct name
I had kinda given up on paying much attention to this intentional grammatical error because so many Democratic Party dunderheads like John Carney constantly use "Democrat Party" when they mean…
What is “woke” anyway?
This is about as tidy a definition as I'v found: “Woke”, in fact, is a meaningless term — a floating signifier you can stuff with whatever you want. As Zoe…
Song of the Day 3/1: Laura Jane Grace, “Lolo 13”
If drag shows freak Republicans out, I wonder how freaked they'd be by an actual transgender performer like Laura Jane Grace. Born Thomas James Gabel, Grace came out in 2012…
It is Going to Be a Rematch – Biden v Trump
There is no escaping the fact that Trump still owns the GOP. And if you look at it in terms of purely mercenary electoral realities- that's good news for Biden.…
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 1 2023
These House Republicans really are some sick mother fuckers.
House Oversight Chair Laments That Joe Biden’s Dead Son Was Never Prosecuted
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer invoked the late son of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, lamenting that Beau Biden was never prosecuted over an investigation into illegal contributions involving his father’s 2008 presidential campaign. When he’s not busy threatening pay-TV providers for not carrying his favorite right-wing channels, or warning that Chinese spy balloons may drop “bioweapons” on the U.S., Comer has devoted much of his energy to launching an investigation into presidential son Hunter Biden’s business dealings.