Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
When Does The Anecdotal Become The Empirical? Rethugs lose two more elections: Georgia: Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area—the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Absolute Corruption–Trump Mobilizes To Stop WBD/Netflix Merger Because…: Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what used to be Time Warner and now goes by the name Warner Bros Discovery (which includes CNN in addition to the more lucrative media stuff). The company had agreed to be acquired by Netflix. So […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 8, 2026
Trump Has Early Stage Alzheimer’s? It’s as plain as the orange makeup caked on his hand: Trump’s deteriorating physical and cognitive condition stopped being a punchline somewhere around the moment he fell asleep in a Cabinet meeting (23 times this week alone), got angry when asked about his MRI, and sent his entire comms team […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: December 7, 2025
Why ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ Resonates: My parents were atheists; I knew almost nothing about Christianity as a child, although I got the lay of the land when I was sent to Catholic school in sixth grade. Before that, my parents—especially my mother—actively worked to keep me and my sister free from religion, Christianity […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Gotta make this quick–it’s Claymont Parade Day… CDC Goes All-In On Anti-Vax: ATLANTA — For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fought attempts by the anti-vaccine movement to sow doubts in the safety and efficacy of the shots that marked a triumph of public health. This week, the agency instead provided a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 6, 2025
Corrupt Supreme Court OK’s Corrupt Texas Gerrymander. Did you expect any other result?: The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to knock down Texas’ hyper-partisan, likely racial gerrymander because the election it would govern is so close. Said election, though, is a whopping 11 months away. Yet that near year of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Trump Knows That Tariffs Will Be Ruled Illegal By Supreme Court: Since oral arguments on Nov. 5, Trump has removed or otherwise modified IEEPA tariffs for myriad goods imported from at least seven countries. Coffee and beef from Brazil, pharmaceutical products, aerospace equipment, and key commodities from Malaysia, and textiles and apparel from El Salvador […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
“Schumer: Trump Is Clearly Demented And Needs To Step Down.” Yes, it’s a fake headline. You could put the name of any Democratic officeholder in there, and it would still be a fake headline. Despite the fact that Trump is clearly demented. Just days after calling Tim Walz the R word, he calls Somalis living […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Hegseth Tries To Make Admiral Scapegoat For His War Crimes. I don’t think this will go well: Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 1, 2025
Yes, Honorables. Data Centers Are A BFD. Ignore at your own peril: The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia offers an early glimpse of what could be a sleeper issue in the 2026 midterm elections: the politics of AI infrastructure. In Virginia, Governor-elect Abigail […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 30, 2025
Gullah Geechee Families Seek Return Of Homeland Seized By Government: A once thriving Black community along the Georgia coast called Harris Neck is now covered with greenery. During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the area boasted a schoolhouse, general store, firehouse and seafood processing plants, and supported 75 Black households […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 29, 2025
Hegseth Commits War Crimes: The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive,according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 28, 2025
Idle Thought: Every single day, Trump says and/or does stuff that show he is unfit to be President. Some enterprising Democrat with a platform (Newsom is doing it to some extent, but not particularly related to the 25th Amendment) should hold a daily press briefing calling out Trump’s unfitness for office based on the stuff […]
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