Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Today’s Special Election: Any prediction I make would be based solely on the perceptions of others. Other than making a modest contribution, I’ve not been involved in the race at all. With that caveat, the general sense from those I’ve talked to is that D Alonna Berry is the slight favorite over R Nikki Miller. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 4, 2025
Why You Should Never Respond To Those Democratic Fundraising E-Mails–The Mothership Vortex: The digital deluge is a familiar annoyance for anyone on a Democratic fundraising list. It’s a relentless cacophony of bizarre texts and emails, each one more urgent than the last, promising that your immediate $15 donation is the only thing standing between democracy and the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 3, 2025
Radioactive Wasps! Wonder if Marvel is suing for copyright infringement: A radioactive wasp nest with radiation levels ten times of what is allowed under regulations was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons, federal officials said. Investigators say the contamination is not related to a nuclear waste leak, and that […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 2, 2025
Trump Hates The Jobs Numbers, Fires The Statistician. Seems like pretty much everybody but Trump likes her: “I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 1, 2025
More Trump Tariff Rope-A-Dope: Stock markets in Europe and across Asia-Pacific countries have fallen after Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of US trading partners. Last night, as the latest deadline to reach deals approached, Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs ranging from 10% to 41%. Rates were set at 25% for India, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 31, 2025
First, a question on the upcoming Special Session: Usually, when there has been a Special Session, pretty much everything has been prepared in advance. Raising my concern: Will this Special Session merely provide an ill-considered patch, or will a thoughtful solution to the issue that has been discussed extensively and in detail here emerge? I, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change. Who sez so? Trump’s EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to climate change. Today the EPA laid out plans to not just weaken those rules, but end them entirely. In 2009, the agency determined that carbon […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of anyone who may disagree with his policies. Now, nonprofit organizations are up. An executive order directed every federal agency to send the White House targets […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 28, 2025
Robert Reich: “We Blew It”. By ‘we’, I’m talkin’ baby boomers, of which I am one. A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily vulnerable. Nobody is protecting you. This is one of the attractions that Donald Trump wittingly or unwittingly presented in 2016 and continues to present. He […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 27, 2025
Volkswagen’s Slave Ranch In Brazil. I’d never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The company said it was finally ready to atone for its past. After admitting that its staff had cooperated with Brazil’s military dictatorship to target workers […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 26, 2025
One More Way That Hulk Hogan’s Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was, by his own account, severely depressed. One day, he visited the home of his friend, a Tampa shock jock named Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 25, 2025
There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Which Reminds Me: Just Shut Up. We’re talking Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel: […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Cover-Up Uncovered: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the exchange. The disclosure came as part of a broader briefing on the re-examination of the case against Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting […]
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