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‘Your Countries Are Going To Hell’
Trump’s hour-long fifteen minute speech was bat-shit crazy–and went 45 minutes over the allotted 15-minute time: President Trump questioned the United Nations’ mission and lectured its member nations on Tuesday in a meandering speech before the General Assembly. Boasting about his record and assailing the U.N. as ineffective in a nearly hourlong address, he sought […]
Charlie Kirk, In His Own Words
Before the canonization proceeds any further, let’s let Oliver Willis set the record straight: In 2023, Kirk said, “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.” Kirk said in 2018 that gun violence in Chicago was the fault of “a lack-of-father […]
UPDATE: Republican Activist Charlie Kirk Fatally Shot
He was shot in the neck at an event in Utah: Charlie Kirk, founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump said. Kirk, 31, emerged as one of the most prominent voices on the right, gaining an audience of millions […]
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 […]
Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?
Looks like all those Republican accusations about Biden’s age and mental befuddlement were, as usual, confessions. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been in a war of words with Donald Trump. After Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Baltimore, calling it “crime-ridden,” Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us.” Trump […]
DL Open Thread/Sunday Magazine, June 29, 2025
Ever notice that some issues – vaccine skepticism, for example – don’t follow our normal political left-right axis of orientation? Eric Oliver did, and after studying the issue he came to the conclusion that America’s political divide is not ideological but psychological. If you believe in UFOs or ESP or even general sense that there […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, June 28, 2025
If you’re a progressive Democratic Party voter, you’re constantly told to shut up and vote for whatever centrist wins the nomination. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is what the party believes and practices no matter who … hold on, I’m getting an update. It turns out that if a social democrat wins the nomination for, […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, June 21, 2025
Is it war yet? More to the point, is it our war yet? Pundits are sucking their thumbs extra-hard trying to figure out if and when Trump will join the Israel-Iran missile-exchange program, but most fail to consider the question, “What would an unimaginative reality-show host do?” They’d do exactly what Trump is doing – […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Why Trump (Again) Jumped In Bed With Israel. In pro rasslin’ terms, he thinks Israel is winning and he ‘wants the rub’: Obviously wars are unpredictable. They don’t necessarily end when you want them to. Consider the fact that October 7th 2023, a shattering defeat for Israel, now from the vantage point of mid-2025 was […]
NEA Cuts Delaware Arts Funding: A Masterclass in Trump/DOGE Stupidity
Guest post by Jason330 Well, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is on the chopping block. That means 100% of its funding to Delaware for FY25 is probably gone. That’s right – poof! Zeroed out. Vanished. In 2024, the NEA granted the Delaware Division of the Arts a modest $950,000. Not exactly a king’s […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, May 3, 2025
Speed bumps on Newark’s Main Street? There’s pressure to make that happen after a stolen U-Haul van fatally struck a student, eight months after another student was killed by a motorcyclist fleeing from police. Another Trump revenge tantrum executive order has been ruled unconstitutional. People who moaned that the courts are all in Trump’s corner […]
Song of the Day 3/24: Jefferson Airplane, “It’s No Secret”
The second Trump administration is incompetents all the way down. The latest example: National Security Adviser Michael Waltz added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on Signal. Goldberg initially thought it might be part of a foreign disinformation campaign, but soon realized it was the real thing, revealing details of the U.S. attack […]
Chuck Fucking Schumer
Doesn’t get more pathetic than this: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led government funding bill that has fiercely divided Democrats under pressure to impose limits on the Trump administration. Schumer told Democrats privately during a spirited closed-door […]
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