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DL Open Thread Friday, May 14, 2021

By Alby May 14, 20214 Comments

Sorry for the delay, we had some issues with Wordpress. Joe Biden's statement of support for Israel did not sit well with some progressives in Congress, so the media is…

DL Open Thread Thursday, May 13, 2021

By Alby May 13, 20217 Comments

Israel and the Palestinians are fighting again. This is news in the same sense that the weather is news -- the particulars change, and sometimes there's a hurricane, but the…

Protesters Target Home of National Embarrassment Chris Coons

By Alby May 3, 202114 Comments

Delawareans elect a lot of corporate tools who pretend to be Democrats, but of all the corporate tools, Sen. Chris Coons has become the corporate tooliest. In today's more progressive…

DL Open Thread Thursday, April 22, 2021

By Alby April 22, 20216 Comments

Republican officials in Georgia are getting scared because they can't convince Trump's hardcore fans to move on, and Trumpism disgusts the suburban voters the party needs to win elections. Ironic,…

DL Open Thread Monday, March 29, 2021

By Alby March 29, 20216 Comments

Dildo-headed capitalist Jeff Bezos is personally behind the company's recent shitty behavior toward its critics. He issued a "broad mandate" to executives to fight back. Hey, it worked last time…

DL Open Thread Thursday, March 18, 2021

By Alby March 18, 20216 Comments

The "crisis" on the southern border isn't a crisis, it's a logistics problem, as demonstrated by the administration's vacillation about reopening the child migrant shelter in Homestead, Fla.. Other that…

DL Open Thread Sunday, March 14, 2021

By Alby March 14, 2021

Among the generally strong reviews of Joe Biden's first presidential address, a few pundits are pointing out that the most important part wasn't even spoken out loud: The overthrow of…

Song of the Day 2/27: Peter Gabriel and Playing for Change, “Biko”

By Alby February 27, 2021

Playing for Change, the music-education non-profit that records musicians around the world playing the same song and edits them into videos, released this Peter Gabriel classic a couple of weeks…

Song of the Day 10/6: Lake Street Dive, “Making Do”

By Alby October 6, 20209 Comments

Don't look now, but while we're worried about COVID-19 and the future of democracy in the U.S., a more insidious threat to humanity just keeps rolling along. Climate change, the…

Song of the Day 9/25: Patti Smith, “People Have the Power”

By Alby September 25, 2020

I'm looking to dispel the air of doomed gloom that pervades progressive spaces these days, so here's an anthem by Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith from her 1988 LP…

Song of the Day 9/18: Twisted Sister, “We’re Not Gonna Take It”

By Alby September 18, 20202 Comments

Let's say you have two aging rock stars, one a legendary Irish R&B singer, the other a Long Island hair-metal has-been. If I told you one was a virulent anti-masker,…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020

By Alby September 15, 20207 Comments

It's primary day. If you haven't already, don't forget to vote. If you don't know your polling location, you can look it up here. A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled…

Song of the Day 5/1: Billy Bragg, “The Internationale”

By Alby May 1, 2020

May Day, though not celebrated in reactionary America, was declared International Workers' Day in 1889 by the Second International organization of workers' and socialist parties, which also adopted "The Internationale"…