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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Look Who’s Funding Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown’s Slush Fund: Phil Shawe, the polarizing New York executive whose financial largesse helped propel Gov. Matt Meyer to victory in 2024, is now throwing his weight behind a new political action committee controlled by Delaware House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown. Shawe has become a controversial figure in Delaware after he […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Talarico Takes Texas D Primary: State Rep. James Talarico defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, emerging victorious over the well-known congresswoman in Texas’ most hotly contested Democratic contest this century with a populist, “top-versus-bottom” message rooted in his Christian faith. “This is a people-powered movement to take on this […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The Unholy Holy War: Hey, ya gotta get the troops ready to die: A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 2, 2026
“Mideast Conflict Widens Across Multiple Fronts”. That’s the lead headline in today’s NYTimes: Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, traded strikes early Monday after the breakdown of a fragile yearlong truce, opening another front in the widening war in the Middle East following the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hezbollah said it […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 1, 2026
Leave it to Trump to make me deviate from my Sunday Morning format. But when he’s perhaps started WW III without Congressional approval, I’m left with no choice. Meet The New Old Guard, Same As The Old Old Guard?: Iran’s top national security official said that an interim council would be formed on Sunday to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN! Let’s see–three rogue states. Who ya got?: The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault that threatened a broader regional conflict, with President Trump vowing to devastate the country’s military, eliminate its nuclear program and bring about a change in its government. Large explosions shook […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
It’s The Weakness, Stupid. Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in the country, and don’t feel particularly well represented by either major political party. In our new February Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, 53% of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans. An identical […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2026
Yes, I’m posting this a day early. Why? Loads of new tunes–and new discoveries, this month. I just couldn’t wait. So sue me. Perhaps the greatest musical month of ALL TI-I-I-I-ME!: Yes, I’d book ’em at the Gild Hall if I was still booking shows: BTW, it’s possible that you’ll prefer this Boy Golden song […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026
How Epstein’s ‘Male Gaze’ Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a luxury farm in the woods of Connecticut. The guests had been hand-picked by prominent New York literary agent John Brockman, who frequently hosted similar salons […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026
Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens–so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate 20 — has become the epicenter of the stealthy plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to rapidly create an American gulag archipelago of […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026
Frederick Wiseman–America’s Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 96. He consistently dismissed categorizations of his work. “I like to call them films” […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026
Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signing documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. Trump said he […]
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Most Trump Tariffs
From the NYTimes: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major setback for his administration’s second-term agenda. The court’s 6-3 decision has significant implications for the U.S. economy, consumers and the president’s trade policy. The Trump […]
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