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DL Open Thread: Friday, January 17, 2025
NYC’s Top Criminal Heads To Mar-A-Lago, Seeking Pardon. Betcha he gets one: Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, his re-election chances in doubt and a federal indictment looming over him, flew to Florida on Thursday to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago just four days before the inauguration. The mayor, a Democrat, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Netanyahu Gonna Netanyahu. Holds up deal: Last-minute disputes appeared to hold up an expected Israeli cabinet vote on Thursday that could formally ratify a cease-fire deal with Hamas that has raised hopes that the devastating 15-month war could be coming to an end. By the afternoon, Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Rethugs Capitulate On Hegseth. You were expecting anything different?: The seriousness and breadth of the allegations against him — from sexual assault to excessive drinking to sheer lack of experience — demand the most searching and responsible of inquiries. Instead, the Hegseth nomination has largely produced reflexive party-line salutes. What unfolded during […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Trump Would Have Been Convicted–DOJ Report: If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday. For 137 pages, Smith detailed the incriminating […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 13, 2025
Bannon Vs. Musk. Can we root for two losers?: President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week, Bannon […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Delaware Rethugs Disgrace Themselves: South Carolina House Republican Nancy Mace spoke at a private Delaware GOP event in Newark Friday following controversy with Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Mace filed a bill in November that would ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property that do not correspond with the sex assigned at […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 11, 2025
How Michigan ‘Moderates’ Foiled Progressive Legislative Agenda. Controlled all three branches of government, but watered down agenda for electoral reasons. Then lost: Michigan Democrats led all branches of government for the past two years, for the first time in about four decades, and they started with a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to boot. But the trifecta […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 10, 2025
Supreme Court (Barely) Refuses To Postpone Trump Sentencing. 5-4: A closely divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Horrific SoCal Fires. Trump blame Dems for disaster: “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Anybody with a first-hand report on the BHL festivities? Snark permitted, welcome, even. How The Cops Kept Kevin Hensley’s Name Out Of The Paper. Both Cris Barrish and Karl Baker report the story. I’m going with Cris b/c I umped him back in the Brandywine Little League: Four days after being elected to a sixth […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Election Scofflaw Becomes Governor Today. Because only the voters did their jobs. Let the Vanity Governorship begin. The John Carney Interview. OK, kids, here is your assignment for today. Read this interview, which is must-reading, then point out the bullshit Carney spews. Sure, I could point out my favorite lies, but it’s more fun to […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 6, 2025
“Premeditated And Continuous Deception”. Convict–And President: In the matter of Donald J. Trump, the criminal justice system failed egregiously to hold the once and future president accountable. It’s almost inconceivable that Trump will spend a single day behind bars. To the contrary, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan suggested that, given Trump’s imminent […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 5, 2025
For Completists Only: The ‘Battle’ For DNC Chair: The two candidates who have emerged as front-runners to become D.N.C. chair, Ken Martin of Minnesota and Ben Wikler of Wisconsin, are both middle-aged white men from the upper Midwest and chair of their state parties whose politics are well within the Democratic mainstream. Yet, as is […]
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