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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 12, 2021
Dominion Just Might Win All Those Lawsuits. Can you say ‘proof of damages’? In case you’re wondering who Dominion is suing, wonder no more. There will be more. Sen. Rick Scott To States: Don’t Take The Relief $$’s. As Florida’s Gov. DeSantis whines that he didn’t get enough: Scott, as head of the National Republican […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, March 7, 2021
Interesting article at Daily Kos examining the congressional districts with the biggest voting shifts in the presidential race from 2016 to 2020. The Republicans made big Latino-fueled gains in south Florida and south Texas, while Democrats picked up strength in some surprising areas — north Texas, nearly all of Colorado and, most surprising to me, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 6, 2021
Manchin Has Mini-Snit, Holds Covid Relief Hostage For Nine Hours. He may not be President, but he sure exercises power–against Democratic constituencies. Biden Dumps Another Trump Appointee. Good: The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, March 4, 2021
Joe Biden’s loose lips are going to cost the Democrats the Neanderthal vote. He blasted the states of the New Confederacy — white supremacy isn’t just for the the South anymore — for their “Neanderthal thinking” they demonstrated in lifting Covid restrictions because they find caring about other people’s lives tiresome, and I can just […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Biden Goes To Bat For Amazon Warehouse Workers. Issues strong support for unionization: For a few minutes on Sunday night, President Biden sounded a little like a union leader. “Unions put power in the hands of workers,” he said in a video statement of support for the union drive at an Amazon fulfillment center in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 27, 2021
House Passes Stimulus Bill. All Rethugs voted against it. So did two ‘moderate’ D’s–Jared Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrader of Oregon. The D’s don’t have the votes, even if we overturn the filibuster, to pass the $15 minimum wage bill in the Senate. So can we just pass this bleeping thing and get the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 26, 2021
Not All Suicides Are Unfortunate. Serial exploiter of female gymnasts commits suicide after being charged. I really think the entire sport of female gymnastics needs to be reconsidered. Sexual abuse, delaying of puberty, anorexia, mental manipulation. Too many horrible bi-products. Is it ultimately good for the participants? I mean, besides the parents with stars and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021
State Rethugs Push Voting Restrictions To Protect Fantasies Of Angry White Guys: GOP state lawmakers across the country have proposed a flurry of voting restrictions that they say are needed to restore confidence in U.S. elections, an effort intended to placate supporters of former president Donald Trump who believe his false claims that the 2020 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time To Face It: Carney & The General Assembly Aren’t Gonna Do SHIT About Police Reform. Buried somewhere in this absolute mess of a story (Subscription required, not worth a penny of your money), the truth emerges. Carney and Pistol Pete Schwartzkopf have largely enabled the creation of a commission designed to do the absolute […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Trump Defense Goes Trumpian. Bellicosity and falsehoods in equal measure. Although shorter than the average Trump campaign event. Designed to appeal to one person: Former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team mounted a combative defense on Friday focused more on assailing Democrats for “hypocrisy” and “hatred” than justifying Mr. Trump’s own monthslong effort to overturn […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 12, 2021
Rethugs Prepare Voter Suppression Legislation. There are two major parties: The Democratic Party and the anti-democratic party: That notion that lawmakers can simply disregard the will of the people is an affront to the very idea of representative democracy. And yet Republicans no longer seem to be exerting so much effort trying to disguise their […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 6, 2021
Biden To Trump: ‘No Briefings For You’. One less opportunity for him to monetize his Presidency. BTW, the President is the sole arbiter as to whether Trump is entitled to briefings. RWNJ Boebert Apparently Paid Off Restaurant Liens By Collecting Phony Travel Reimbursements. The liens, as you might expect, were for not funding unemployment insurance. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 5, 2021
OK, it’s time to focus on why I like pretty much everything Biden’s done so far. (1) I think he’s aware of the sands of time passing through the hourglass. He’s the oldest person to assume the presidency, he has experienced unexpected loss, and knows that nothing is guaranteed to him. (2) And I think […]
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