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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 21, 2025
‘The Hollowness Of The Easy Victory’–Robert Redford Took The Road Not Often Taken: Redford’s insight into elite sport, as he remarked during a promotional tour in 1970, was that “frequently it fits you only for the wrong things, even breaks you utterly.” Winning, and its attendant praise, in Downhill Racer’s telling, lasts about a minute. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Trump Fires Prosecutor For Not Bringing Charges Where There Were None: The U.S. attorney investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey said he had resigned on Friday, hours after President Trump called for his ouster. Erik S. Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 19, 2025
Fascist Takeover Reaches Fever Pitch: President Trump said on Thursday that regulators should consider revoking the licenses of broadcasters that air negative coverage or commentary of him, indicating that his assault on critics’ language is motivated at least in part by personal animus. The comments were a remarkable escalation in a coordinated attack by Mr. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Nobody In Corporate Media Will Stand Up To Trump. I guess the specter of Trump lawsuits has caused all corporate-types to cower: ABC announced Wednesday it’s pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely. The sudden move followed threats from the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to the stations that carry the show, and […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Delaware State Legislators Take Part In Israeli Propaganda Campaign–In Israel. Genocide? WHAT genocide? Just scroll down to ‘Day 2 of ’50 States One Israel’. The photo on the top right. With the big-ass Delaware flag. Name the legislators. I think they are Senators Paradee and Brown, and Reps. Ross Levin, Shupe and Speigelman. The Israeli official […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Trump Declares War On Everybody Who Disagrees With Him. Starting, of course, during a ‘takeover’ of Charlie Kirk’s radio show: Vice President JD Vance spent Monday hosting Charlie Kirk’s radio show, using his power to continue whitewashing the deceased conservative pundit’s record while leveling threats at President Donald Trump’s political opponents. The White House promoted […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 15, 2025
Long-Term Unemployment Is Back: More than 1 in 4 workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least half a year, new data shows.That number is a post-pandemic high and a level typically only seen during periods of economic turmoil. In all, more than 1.9 million Americans had been unemployed “long term” in August, meaning […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 14, 2025
How The Progressive Set To Debate Kirk Was Set To Debate Kirk: On September 25, the left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was supposed to debate Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. But one hour into an eight-hour stream on Wednesday, Piker’s chat started posting that Kirk got shot. “Oh my God, he […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Fascism never takes a day off to mourn. The latest: Trump Invades Memphis. You might ask why. Here’s why: The CEO of one of the nation’s most powerful freight railroads met with President Donald Trump this week to make the case for an $85 billion merger that has drawn opposition from labor unions and energy […]
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 […]
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