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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 4, 2021
The Second Amendment And Slavery: Perfect Together? Worthy of a REV podcast…here’s the gist of this historian’s argument: In her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states: […]
DL Open Thread For May 29, 2021
DOJ Asks Judge To Toss Lawsuit Against Trump And Barr For Violent Clearing Of Lafayette Square. Seriously, WTF? Trump and other U.S. officials are immune from civil lawsuits over police actions taken to protect a president and to secure his movements, government lawyers said of the actions taken ahead of a photo op of Trump […]
DL Open Thread For Friday, May 28, 2021
Kathy McGuiness Crosses That Ethical Line. Again. When you’re an elected official, it’s bad form to announce a supposed new initiative AND solicit campaign funds in the same e-mail. But that’s what she’s done, not for the first time: Dear Steve, Today, I announced my accountability and transparency initiative dubbed Project: Gray Fox. Since I […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, May 27, 2021
Whenever someone has suggested that the Covid-19 virus might have escaped from a Chinese lab, authorities have been quick to bat it down (see what I did there?) That’s probably been good geopolitics, but not good detective work. It turns out that the U.S. intel staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick with […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, May 23, 2021
Quote of the Day: Maybe it’s just because of lingering cartoon stereotypes about German efficiency, but I always assumed Nazis would be, like, unusually competent, y’know? Having lived through the last five years, I understand now, of course they’re gonna be the mouth-breathingest fuckups on the planet, that’s why they need all the lying and […]
DL Open Thread Friday, May 21, 2021
This is a short news roundup today for a simple reason: Damn near every story on the internet tells me I should be very, very afraid of damn near everything. In the media, the Democrats have already lost the 2022 midterms, because — you’ve read this thin gruel cooked up from flop sweat and bovine […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, May 16, 2021
We now have demonstrative proof that today’s Americans are stupider than Americans of the past. We had actual gas shortages in the 1970s, and officials didn’t have to issue warnings not to put gasoline in plastic bags. What could be stupider? How about pumping gas into a laundry basket? That stupid enough for ya? The […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 15, 2021
So-Called Police Accountability Task Force Votes Against Police Accountability. Just the way Speaker Peter drew it up: FAILED – Create policies creating civilian review boards for police agencies FAILED – Review the Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights FAILED – Review Collective Bargaining Agreements, in particular their relationship with Freedom of Information Act requests That’s how you […]
DL Open Thread Friday, May 14, 2021
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 celebrating their chance to dust off the “Democrats in disarray” headlines. Here’s a challenge for you: Find me an American who cares more about this […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, May 13, 2021
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 most common forecast from the meteorologists is “clouds and sun,” which pretty much covers the whole spectrum, doesn’t it? The violence has a clear cause […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 7, 2021
It’s Official: The Big Lie And Voter Suppression Are The Only Life Rafts Keeping The Rethuglican Party From Drowning. Either the Party dies, or democracy dies. Rep. Elise Stefanik adopts The Big Lie To Oust Liz Cheney from leadership. Here’s why Cheney is out: “For sure the votes are there,” Mr. Jordan said on Fox […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 3, 2021
‘Patriots For Delaware’ Looking To Elect RWNJ’s To School Boards. The News-Journal discovers what we’ve been writing about: Patriots for Delaware has officially endorsed five school board candidates in the upcoming May 11 election. And in most of those races, a similar dynamic has emerged: those endorsed by Patriots for Delaware, facing off against those […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 1, 2021
The Latest Rethug Attempt To Label Rather Than Legislate. Prepare to hear ‘Lefty social engineering’ redound through their media echo chamber: That echoed a message sketched out immediately after Biden’s speech by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who gave the nationally televised GOP response and accused Democrats of wanting “to put Washington even more in the […]
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