Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 30, 2021
Dang, I’ve got one of those spring/summer colds. I’ve decided that the ‘cure’ of Mucinex is worse than the ‘disease’. It’s the rare drugged-out feeling that I don’t like…hopefully it will heighten my sense of the absurd as I scour the interwebs for stuff for us to talk about. FBI Had Warned Giuliani And Sen. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 24, 2021
Maryland To Review Cases Handled By Ex-Medical Examiner Who Testified For Chauvin’s Defense. Including this case: In 2018, a 19-year-old college student named Anton Black died after interacting with a Greensboro officer responding to a call of a possible kidnapping on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “Anton Black died because police employed excessive force, laying him out […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 10, 2021
Voter Suppression Too Extreme Even For Wisconsin’s Right-Wing Supreme Court. “If the court had ruled the other way, thousands of voters would have routinely come off the rolls every two years when election officials believed they had moved.” The Absolute Corruption Of Clarence And Virginia Thomas. It has ever been thus with these two. An […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 9, 2021
Two ex-NFL Players, Two Mass Shootings. Philip Adams. Travis Rudolph. Uh, brain trauma, much? From the Adams article: At least five people are dead, including two children, in what police in York County, S.C., called a “case of a mass shooting” committed by a former National Football League player. The York County Sheriff’s Office confirmed […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 3, 2021
Alabama Refuses To Lift Yoga Ban. The Reason? Hindu Indoctrination. Having taken acid gives me even more appreciation for a story like this. Hindu indoctrination is a real thing. You start with a few ommmm chants, and you end up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo Next thing you know, the entire Alabama congressional delegation is Black. MLB Moves […]
DL Open Thread Monday, March 29, 2021
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 Amazon workers tried to unionize — in 2014 in Smyrna. In Delaware, not even exploited workers will rock the boat. If the Grateful Dead had […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 27, 2021
Moscow Mitch Loses Kentucky Smelting Plant. Sad: In 2019, Rusal announced its commitment to invest $200 million in the plant, which stirred up criticism as the decision came shortly after the U.S. Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Rusal and its parent company. A spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, then majority leader, told the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 26, 2021
Georgia Passes Unfathomably Racist Voter Suppression Laws. As anti-democratic as it gets. Stop minorities from voting, hang on to power. Will Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin stand with these blatant racists? BTW, doesn’t get more symbolic than this. Black legislator arrested for trying to attend signing ceremony, Looks Like Netanyahu’s ‘Victory’ Was No Victory At […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 20, 2021
Know Your Violent Insurrectionists: Christopher John Worrell. Jennifer Marie Heinl. Jeffrey McKellop. I’m really enjoying these profiles by PvtJarHead in Daily Kos. TN Rethugs Rally To Save Bust Of Notorious KKK Racist. Tell me this Party isn’t dying. Biden And Afghanistan. It’s–complicated. I’m with Freda Payne on this one: Department Of Education Cancels $1 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 19, 2021
A New Rethug Election-Stealing Trick. Find someone with a similar name to the D, prop ’em up with dark money, steal election. Rethugs Sue B/C…They Can’t Use State Stimulus Funds For, Wait For It, Tax Cuts. I’m no attorney, but it seems to me that the Federal government has every right to require that Federal […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, March 18, 2021
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 bleating “crisis,” Republicans have no ideas on how to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors, currently running about 500 people a day. They do hope […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
We can’t let last Thursday’s session go w/o mentioning the latest musings of Delaware’s Least Woke (Awake?) legislator. SB 56 (Sturgeon), which ‘codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 13, 2021
Kentucky Senate Outlaws Saying Something That Might Hurt Cops’ Feelings: Kentucky’s Republican-majority Senate on Thursday moved forward a bill that would make it easier to arrest protesters for insulting a police officer, a measure that critics say would stifle free speech. The bill, passed two days before the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of […]
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