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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 3, 2025
Radioactive Wasps! Wonder if Marvel is suing for copyright infringement: A radioactive wasp nest with radiation levels ten times of what is allowed under regulations was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons, federal officials said. Investigators say the contamination is not related to a nuclear waste leak, and that […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 2, 2025
Trump Hates The Jobs Numbers, Fires The Statistician. Seems like pretty much everybody but Trump likes her: “I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] […]
‘Sen. Bipartisanship’ At It Again
No, I’m not talking about his indefensible vote for more arms sales to Israel. (BTW, you simply must read Coons’ double-talk right here.) Instead, I’m talking about this. You know, where Coons and Mitch McConnell find (yet more) common ground. Some choice gobbledygook from it: On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved our bill that would invest […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 1, 2025
More Trump Tariff Rope-A-Dope: Stock markets in Europe and across Asia-Pacific countries have fallen after Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of US trading partners. Last night, as the latest deadline to reach deals approached, Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs ranging from 10% to 41%. Rates were set at 25% for India, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 31, 2025
First, a question on the upcoming Special Session: Usually, when there has been a Special Session, pretty much everything has been prepared in advance. Raising my concern: Will this Special Session merely provide an ill-considered patch, or will a thoughtful solution to the issue that has been discussed extensively and in detail here emerge? I, […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2025
Can’t over-hype this month. It over-hypes itself. No better way to kick it off: Don’t know exactly what Dev Hynes does. Don’t need to: Belongs on a Justified soundtrack: A gorgeous song from Jenn Wasner, aka ‘Flock Of Dimes’: I’m tossing in an incredible Tiny Desk Concert by Flock of Dimes, just because I can, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change. Who sez so? Trump’s EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to climate change. Today the EPA laid out plans to not just weaken those rules, but end them entirely. In 2009, the agency determined that carbon […]
Guest Post: The Property Reassessment Controversy
By Mediawatch: Like you, I’m still trying to figure out who should be in the crosshairs. A couple of things going on here: 1. There was minimal uproar last year in Kent because it’s the smallest county. There has been relatively little outrage in Sussex because property taxes are so damn low and there’s a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of anyone who may disagree with his policies. Now, nonprofit organizations are up. An executive order directed every federal agency to send the White House targets […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 28, 2025
Robert Reich: “We Blew It”. By ‘we’, I’m talkin’ baby boomers, of which I am one. A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily vulnerable. Nobody is protecting you. This is one of the attractions that Donald Trump wittingly or unwittingly presented in 2016 and continues to present. He […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 27, 2025
Volkswagen’s Slave Ranch In Brazil. I’d never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The company said it was finally ready to atone for its past. After admitting that its staff had cooperated with Brazil’s military dictatorship to target workers […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 26, 2025
One More Way That Hulk Hogan’s Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was, by his own account, severely depressed. One day, he visited the home of his friend, a Tampa shock jock named Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 25, 2025
There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Which Reminds Me: Just Shut Up. We’re talking Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel: […]
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