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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Any illusion that the Supreme Court was gonna pull us back from the creation of a Fascist State was crushed yesterday. Oh, sure, permitting ICE Agents to move through US cities with impunity was ‘temporary’, but that’s only because the final adjudication has yet to reach the Court. 6-3 on that ruling, BTW: The Supreme […]
Delaware Joins Regional Public Health Coalition
Good: Gov. Matt Meyer announced Sept. 5 that Delaware will join Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York in a regional public health alliance. The group was first formed by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Sept. 4, following a contentious Senate hearing that day with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 8, 2025
Trump’s Gone Stark-Raving Mad. 25th Amendment, Anyone? Which American City Will He Attack Next?: On Saturday, Trump posted online that Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” (Last week Trump signed an order renaming the Defense Department, though Congress would have to officially change its title.) The social media […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 7, 2025
Has Elon Musk Gotten Bored With Making Cars?: Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 6, 2025
‘He’s A Walking Disaster, He’s A Demolition Man’–Trump’s plan to turn the White House into a casino continues apace: President Donald Trump needs to build his gold-plated monstrosity of a ballroom, and he can’t wait a minute more. So he got one of the numerous personal attorneys he has stashed in high-level administration jobs to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 5, 2025
We’re Officially At ‘War’ Now: Even weirder than you might think: President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to give the Department of Defense a new name: the Department of War. The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department […]
Mars Needs Electric Cars
Guest Post From Gary Mullinax, The Minister Of Culture When Elon Musk starts up his self-sustaining Martian colony — he will because he says he will — he can use the many canals there to bring water to the new community. Otherwise intelligent people a century ago did think there were Martians and that they […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 4, 2025
Florida Chooses Disease. Perhaps it’s just me, but killing off your citizens hardly seems the way to expand your electoral dominance. But who am I to judge?: Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
It All Ends At The Supreme Court: A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump from using an 18th-century wartime law to quickly deport a group of Venezuelans, rejecting the administration’s argument that the migrants were part of an “invasion” of the United States. The Trump administration has said the migrants are members of […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025
Why Democrats Suck–Infinity Squared. While Democrats remain largely mute about the ongoing Fascist takeover of America, this terrifies them: Zohran Mamdani’s front-running campaign to lead the nation’s largest city is stoking fear among moderate Democrats that his far-left politics will cost them at the ballot box. They worry a Mamdani mayoralty will deepen an existential […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August 2025
We arrived at a real good musical month in uncharacteristic fashion. Had some songs I liked, had about three borderline songs, and not all that many songs. Then, in the last week and a half, a buncha good ones surfaced, so I jettisoned the borderline songs. There’s one Song Of The Year candidate in this […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 1, 2025
The Trump Gaza Riviera: Are all the Democrats OK with this? A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration, modeled on President Donald Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 31, 2025
Life’s Greatest (?) Mystery Solved. 10-pack hot dogs, 8-pack hot dog buns. Why?: Before about 1940, hot dogs were bought and sold from local butcher shops and were not packaged as they are today. Shoppers would simply ask the butcher for the number of sausages they needed and would be charged by the pound. This […]
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