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Just Like That, It’s Over
There will be no Fox-Dominion trial. The parties have settled: Fox News has agreed to settle the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed against the network over its broadcast of lies aimed at undercutting public confidence in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The network and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to an undisclosed settlement Tuesday, just […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 16,2023
Anti-Abortion Judge Hid Off-The Wall Screed From Senate During Confirmation: In 2017, Matthew Kacsmaryk, then deputy general counsel at the right-wing First Liberty Institute, criticized protections for transgender people and those seeking abortions in a draft law review article. The Obama administration, he wrote, was ignoring doctors who, for religious reasons, “cannot use their scalpels […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Have you figured out that, if John Carney does nothing on the pot bills, HB 1 will become law next Saturday? Quietly becomes law as Carney does what he does best: Nothing. For once, a do-nothing governor would be a plus. Mike Pompeo Says He Won’t Run For President. Nobody cares. DeSantis, On Book […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 14, 2023
How This 21-Year-Old Guy Leaked US Military Secrets To The World: A friend who spoke with The Post described Teixeira as patriotic, a devout Catholic and a libertarian with an interest in guns and doubts about America’s future. The leaked documents included the whereabouts and movements of high-ranking political leaders and tactical updates on military […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 13, 2023
Rethug Judges Giveth, Taketh Away. Modify Kaszmaryk’s abortion pill ruling, but push to halt access to the pill: In its order, the appellate panel said the F.D.A.’s approval of mifepristone could stand because too much time had passed for the plaintiffs, a consortium of groups and doctors opposed to abortion, to challenge that decision. The […]
Meredith Newman Commits Journalism
ProPublica-caliber journalism right here in the News-Journal. We’re talking malign neglect–in assisted living facilities–and in the disgraceful response by the budget-smoothing lackeys of the Carney Administration. Read the piece, if you can (the work of the 3 or 4 legit reporters on staff is why I subscribe). Newman first frames the story through the eyes […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 9, 2023
The Trump Twenty? According to the NYT, about 20 people have been informed by the Fulton County (Ga.) DA that they are targets of a criminal investigation: In Georgia, however, there is another criminal investigation of Mr. Trump nearing completion, this one also led by a local prosecutor, Fani T. Willis of Fulton County. While […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 8, 2023
The Good Friday Massacre: Is anyone still complacent about democracy?: The highly anticipated and unprecedented ruling from Texas puts on hold the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which was cleared for use in the United States in 2000. It was the first time a judge suspended longtime FDA approval of a medication despite […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 7, 2023
They Can’t DO This In America–Except They Did: Tennessee’s House of Representatives on Thursday expelled two Democratic members who participated in a gun control protest following the mass shooting at a Nashville grade school. Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been stripped of their titles and legislative responsibilities, an extraordinary development in the GOP-led […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 6, 2023
You know those red Solo plastic cups that are ubiquitous and omnipresent? They are the biggest-selling product of Dart Container, makers of landfill, um, fillers: Dart Container Corporation — not to be confused with DART, the Delaware Transit Corporation — will be the first tenant in the Delaware Logistics Center in New Castle near Delaware […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 6, 2023
How To Run As Progressives On The Crime Issue–And Win: On Tuesday, Brandon Johnson, one of the most progressive mayoral candidates in Chicago’s history, won in a stunning upset over his opponent Paul Vallas, who had backing from Chicago’s police union and raised more than double in campaign cash after vowing to hire more cops. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Grasping at (plastic) straws. Word on the street is that SB 51 (Paradee) will likely be on tomorrow’s Senate Agenda. We’ll find out–tomorrow. The key question is whether one legislator will unilaterally kill the bill in the House. We’re talking Our PAL Val Longhurst, who has a business that cranks out these plastic polluters in […]
Great Night For Progressives!
Progressives win key Wisconsin Supreme Court race and Chicago’s Mayoral race. Wisconsin has artificially been ruled by Rethugs due to anti-democratic legislation pushed through by the likes of Ron Johnson. An acquiescent Supreme Court has kept these impediments in place. The overwhelming win by Janet Protasiewicz could well overturn that MAGA stranglehold: The win by […]
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