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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 12, 2025
BREAKING: Trump says with a ‘high degree of certainty’ that a suspect is in custody. Time To End The Canonization Of Charlie Kirk. Our commenters unearthed two excellent pieces on this matter: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/tnamp/ https://newrepublic.com/article/200327/charlie-kirk-empathy-trap-democrats The canonization is deliberate. Make him a martyr to justify retribution against any and all who Trump despise: “For years those […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 11, 2025
A Worthy Epitaph?: “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” “That is a prudent deal.” Amateur Hour At The FBI. Does Kash have a Klown Kar?: Hopes for the fast capture of the person […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Just an idle question: Is it possible that the reason why the Governor and certain legislators are at such loggerheads over the Port issue is because it looks like the project will never be built, meaning it’s only about who gets the blame? Between the litigation and the typical Army Corps Of Engineers’ spouting of […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Any illusion that the Supreme Court was gonna pull us back from the creation of a Fascist State was crushed yesterday. Oh, sure, permitting ICE Agents to move through US cities with impunity was ‘temporary’, but that’s only because the final adjudication has yet to reach the Court. 6-3 on that ruling, BTW: The Supreme […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 8, 2025
Trump’s Gone Stark-Raving Mad. 25th Amendment, Anyone? Which American City Will He Attack Next?: On Saturday, Trump posted online that Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” (Last week Trump signed an order renaming the Defense Department, though Congress would have to officially change its title.) The social media […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 7, 2025
Has Elon Musk Gotten Bored With Making Cars?: Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 6, 2025
‘He’s A Walking Disaster, He’s A Demolition Man’–Trump’s plan to turn the White House into a casino continues apace: President Donald Trump needs to build his gold-plated monstrosity of a ballroom, and he can’t wait a minute more. So he got one of the numerous personal attorneys he has stashed in high-level administration jobs to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 5, 2025
We’re Officially At ‘War’ Now: Even weirder than you might think: President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to give the Department of Defense a new name: the Department of War. The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 4, 2025
Florida Chooses Disease. Perhaps it’s just me, but killing off your citizens hardly seems the way to expand your electoral dominance. But who am I to judge?: Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
It All Ends At The Supreme Court: A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump from using an 18th-century wartime law to quickly deport a group of Venezuelans, rejecting the administration’s argument that the migrants were part of an “invasion” of the United States. The Trump administration has said the migrants are members of […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025
Why Democrats Suck–Infinity Squared. While Democrats remain largely mute about the ongoing Fascist takeover of America, this terrifies them: Zohran Mamdani’s front-running campaign to lead the nation’s largest city is stoking fear among moderate Democrats that his far-left politics will cost them at the ballot box. They worry a Mamdani mayoralty will deepen an existential […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 1, 2025
The Trump Gaza Riviera: Are all the Democrats OK with this? A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration, modeled on President Donald Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 31, 2025
Life’s Greatest (?) Mystery Solved. 10-pack hot dogs, 8-pack hot dog buns. Why?: Before about 1940, hot dogs were bought and sold from local butcher shops and were not packaged as they are today. Shoppers would simply ask the butcher for the number of sausages they needed and would be charged by the pound. This […]
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