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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025

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They’re Just Trolling Us Now.  Jeanine Pirro For DC AG.  Some Influencer Who Isn’t A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General.  Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of Congress and Acting Head Of FEMA to release the following statement: Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media Thursday, calling her a “total crack […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025

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‘That Boy Ain’t Right’.  We’re talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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Suh-prize, Suh-prize, It Was Never About Anti-Semitism.  Just MAGAts going after an institution they don’t like: The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out. To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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You see what Trump’s doing, right?  The exact same thing he’s done with his businesses for his entire career.  Only with the Justice Department acting as his personal attorneys.  He floods the zone with illegality, then he just draws everything out through the courts.  Pretty much everything that has reached final resolution, which isn’t all […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, May 5, 2025

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Trump Abandons Any Pretense Of Ethics, Rakes In Dirty Money From All Over.  Trump Cryptocurrency.  Trump’s Corrupt Kids: A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025

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A Cardinal Fan?: Photo: The White House The Musk Myth As Kabuki Theatre? Howzabout a little schadenfreude to start your day?: It’s ornate. It’s stylized. It’s ritualized. And like all Kabuki, it is not meant to reflect reality—it is meant to perform power. But now, the performance is faltering. The cast is walking offstage. The […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 2, 2025

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Trump Judge Declares Trump Deportation Policy Illegal: A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants. US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez said Donald Trump’s use of the wartime power was “unlawful” and had been improperly invoked. The law was written in 1798 to allow […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 1, 2025

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Satire Is Dead: Port Of Wilmington Edition.  General Assembly creates a task force with no legal authority, ‘Honorables’ feign anger when Governor’s people don’t show up: The inaugural meeting on Wednesday of a port oversight task force that lawmakers had created over objections from Gov. Matt Meyer became the latest front in a months-long power […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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I’ve (largely) avoided MSNBC and (completely) avoided polling since the election.  However, as Trump hits the 100-day-in-office mark, I compromise on my principles, if only just this once: This only matters if, you know, elections still take place.  Which is ‘to be determined’. Problem is, he’s done so much bad stuff that it won’t simply […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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Trump Unites Canada: Prime Minister Mark Carney led his Liberal Party to a narrow victory in Canada’s pivotal election on Monday, securing a fourth term in power for the party and a renewed mandate to lead the fight against President Trump over trade and the nation’s sovereignty. Mr. Carney, a former central banker who was […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, April 28, 2025

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More Of This, Please: In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign. “Paramount began to supervise our content in […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 27, 2025

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‘Kid Has Stage 4 Cancer? Let Honduras Deal With It’: Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 26, 2025

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 26, 2025

Trump Judge Draws Line At Deporting 2-Year-Old With ‘No Meaningful Process’.  We’re talking about a judge who frustrated Biden at every turn: A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep […]

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