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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 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 30, 2025
Arden Fair Day! I’ll be working the Book Sale in the Gild Hall from 10-12. I noticed an incredible number of books that would fascinate cinephiles amongst this year’s offerings. Just sayin’. The Supreme Court Will Ultimately Determine Whether Fascism Triumphs. Removal Of Immigrants. Tariffs. Journalism. Firing Of Independent Federal Officials. Those are just today’s […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 29, 2025
Yes, we ran into the dreaded ‘technical difficulties’ yesterday. Which is unfortunate, since I’m technologically illiterate. It won’t happen again. Until the next time. Public Health? What Public Health?: The firing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Susan Monarez, less than a month after she was confirmed by the United States Senate […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Pandemics Coming Soon! Vaccines, Not So Much. Courtesy of Bobby Brainworm, Jr: The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Electoral Trend Emerging? Not just (or primarily) for Democrats. But for progressives: Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP’s supermajority in the chamber. Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by a wide 55-45 margin in a district Donald Trump carried […]
A Great Candidate For RD 38!
A real tough district, but check out the background of recently-announced D candidate Maureen Madden: A retired federal civil servant and a multi-degree black belt-holder across several disciplines, Mo Madden served for nearly 23 years at the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 7 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Dog-Killer Persecutes Kilmar Abrego Garcia: This wouldn’t be possible in anything other than a banana republic: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him after a […]
Do You Want An Audit Of Tyler Technologies?
To me the answer is an obvious YES. Rep. Eric Morrison just shared the following: Three NCC councilpersons have introduced a resolution calling for an audit of Tyler Technologies, how the company performed their property reassessment work, how the county instructed them to do so, and if the company followed those instructions. The resolution will be […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 25, 2025
So. You Think A Second Civil War Hasn’t Started Yet? Troops coming to a city near you, fortified with soldiers from the Confederacy: President Trump has escalated his threat to deploy National Guard troops to major cities to address crime as the federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., enters its third week. Trump expanded his federal […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025
History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She was too short to sit, so she stood, working the foot pedal to coax floral patterns from metallic thread and her own memory. Decades later, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH–Pretty much all the defense experts are gone because disagreeing with the Tangerine Tyrant is a firing offense: The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a senior defense official and a senator said on Friday, weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report that contradicted President Trump’s contention […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 22, 2025
Texas And Cali Battle To A Draw. Not just good, but necessary: California leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts, delivering an immediate counterpunch to the gerrymandered map that Republicans in Texas are passing at the request of President Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two redistricting bills […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 21, 2025
‘White America IS America’: Under Trump’s Fascist Dictatorship, That Is The New Truth: President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution this week of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not enough on the “brightness” of America. He has ordered Confederate statues honoring those who fought to preserve slavery to be restored and celebrated. […]
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