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Fighting Against Medicare Advantage

By Alby November 17, 202310 Comments

Guest post by Representative John Kowalko (25th District, retired) Over the past year and a half, I have dedicated much of my energy to exposing the fraudulent and dishonest Medicare…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

By Alby November 15, 20238 Comments

They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023

By Alby November 14, 20233 Comments

Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state's electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a…

Is Collin O’Mara Running for Governor?

By Alby November 13, 202323 Comments

We've seen lots of chatter lately about former state Secretary of Natural Resources Collin O'Mara exploring a run for governor. I just can't see it. Since stepping down from the…

Arden’s Single-Tax A Cure For Urban Blight?

By El Somnambulo November 13, 2023

Detroit's mayor thinks so: When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened…

DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 13, 2023

By Alby November 13, 202314 Comments

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott became the latest GOP hopeful to realize that trying to change the zombified minds of Trump cultists is a fool's errand. He ended his presidential…

Great Night For Democrats–And Working Families Party

By El Somnambulo November 8, 202310 Comments

Let's start with WFP. Despite (or perhaps in part because of) a crumbling Democratic machine in Philly: Working Families Party candidates Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O’Rourke appeared to have won…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2023

By Alby November 8, 202311 Comments

Voters in Ohio added abortion rights to the state constitution Tuesday, and it wasn't particularly close – more than 56% voted "yes." Abortion wasn't on the ballot in Virginia but…

Song of the Day 11/7: Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, “Out of Control”

By Alby November 7, 2023

In honor of Trump's meltdown on the stand in his fraud trial yesterday. Wayne County, who became Jayne County more than 40 years ago, was involved with Andy Warhol in…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023

By Alby November 7, 20239 Comments

Trump took the stand in his New York civil trial for fraud yesterday and, as was widely predicted, he did not comport himself in a professional manner. Y'all can believe…

DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 6, 2023

By Alby November 6, 202315 Comments

Didja ever notice that the more fundamentalist religious people are, the more hung up they are about sex? Another day, another story about what a weird creepazoid new House speaker…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

By Alby November 1, 202314 Comments

Observing conservatives over the decades, I've noticed they usually fall into the same trap: They believe their own bullshit or, in the parlance of our times, they get high on…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

By Alby October 31, 202322 Comments

Replacing soft-MAGA Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House with hard-MAGA Mike Johnson is somehow Bad News for Progressives among those who see everything as bad news for progressives, but…