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DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 21, 2024
Ohio Pastor Opens Church To Homeless. Gets Arrested. So much of what’s wrong with our state of affairs wrapped up in one story: While our society leaves far too many out in the cold, Rev. Chris Avell of Dad’s Place in tiny Bryan, Ohio in 53 miles southwest of Toledo finds himself in legal hot […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 19, 2024
Rethugs Bully, D’s Cower. The story of one progressive judge and his predictable fate: This country has no more devoted a public servant than Judge Todd Edelman of the D.C. Superior Court. While other law graduates joined white-shoe firms,Edelman, a friend of mine since college, spent years as a public defender, as a labor union […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
I mentioned this the other day: The media is more interested in narrative than facts. The Iowa caucuses provide a perfect example. Donald Trump won. That’s news, but of the dog bites man sort – everyone knew he would. But that’s not a very compelling narrative, so political reporters gave us others, based mostly on […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 15, 2024
As the seige of Gaza reached 100 days over the weekend, Netanyahu said, “No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else.” I wish Biden would take that as a challenge, because I know just how he could stop them. Meanwhile, the Houthis in Yemen launched an […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024
For most people the record-breaking heat of 2023 wasn’t surprising – only Republicans pretend not to know about global warming – but it was to scientists, because the increase was greater than known processes would allow for. Something else is going on, and climate scientists don’t know what it is or might be. If 2023 was […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024
It appears the Biden administration is hellbent on implementing the Saudi-Israeli agreements forged under the Trump administration through the efforts of one Brett McGurk (yes, I’m well aware that sounds like a name Dr. Seuss made up). McGurk is pushing a plan to reconstruct a post-war Gaza through a joint Saudi-Israeli effort that still wouldn’t […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 12, 2024
Rethug Governors Reject Food Aid For Children. Inflicting pain is the point: More than eight million children in 15 states, all led by Republican governors, will be shut out of a new federal food assistance program intended to help needy families during the summer months. Set to begin this summer, the new program provides low-income […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 11, 2024
“Anyone Who Is Unwilling To Say Trump Is Unfit To Be President Of The United States Is Unfit Themselves To Be President Of The United States.” That soundbite from Chris Christie during his announced withdrawal from the presidential race should be aired relentlessly between now and November. Not even Biden’s advisors can screw this up, […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024
The Israeli attempt to wipe out Hamas has brought widespread condemnation, but since calls on conscience are doing nothing to dissuade Netanyahu from his murderous course. So the focus of criticism seems to have shifted toward worries about the war widening to the entire region, with the new Axis of Evil shaping up as Iran, […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024
Some of the aides who flipped on Trumpo gave Jack Smith damning evidence about the traitor’s behavior as the attack on the Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6. True to form, the fatass was glued to the tube and refused to act to stop the violence. Motherfucker is as guilty as he is ugly. The Republican […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 8, 2024
Brace yourselves for a tsunsami of Trump-in-court news this week as the human colostomy bag faces deadlines and hearings in three of the legal cases against him. I predict those tiny thumbs will get an unprecedented workout as he spews his pixelated spittle all week long. The best thing about having a death cult as […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 7, 2024
Happy Anniversary! Three Jan. 6 Fugitives Arrested: WASHINGTON — Early Saturday morning at a ranch in Florida, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the FBI captured three fugitives accused of participating in the riot. “The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants early this morning at a ranch in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 6, 2023
Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Trump Ballot Eligibility Case, Slow-Walks Trump Immunity-From-Prosecution Case. Gee, wonder why. All that remains is to see how the Justices will weasel Trump back onto the ballot despite the Constitution: The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether former president Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary election ballots, scheduling […]
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