Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
First, some thoughts on tomorrow’s scheduled Delaware City meeting on the proposed data center. We will almost certainly be able to figure out what Speaker Mimi’s and Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore’s agenda is. We’ll know, in part, not only by who attends, but who wasn’t invited to attend. All we’ve been told is that Starwood […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
$64 Billion In Data Center Projects Have Already Been Blocked Or Delayed. TL;DR: $64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back. Report Objective: This report catalogs and […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 21, 2025
Build Data Center, Destroy Water Supply: After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff Morris’s home went dry. The couple’s house, which uses well water, is 1,000 feet from Meta’s new data center. Months after construction began in 2018, […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 20, 2025
50 Years On, Who Ya Got? ‘A Chorus Line’ Or ‘Chicago’? Back in 1975, or maybe 1976, me and a bunch of my theatre friends went to NYC and saw both ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Chicago’ on the same day. ‘A Chorus Line’ at the matinee performance, and ‘Chicago’ in the evening. We were unanimous: […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 19, 2025
‘It Was The Advertising, Stupid’. Wonder how much the Feckless Dems are spending on this: The Democratic National Committee’s examination of what went wrong in the 2024 election is expected to mostly steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign and will focus more heavily instead on actions taken by allied groups, according […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 18, 2025
Trump On His Way Out? A conspiracy theory I can get behind: I think Donald Trump and his closest supporters may be laying the groundwork for the option of leaving office for medical reasons. I’m not saying that’s what they’re going to do. I’m not saying it’s what he’s likely to do. But I am […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 17, 2025
Mic Drop Of The Day. Thanks to one of my fave tipsters: [takes very deep breath] Pretty weird that Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for her involvement in a sex trafficking operation that was all in service to one man and no other clients and that man is now dead and the Department of […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Trump Favors Starvation As A Weapon. Not just food banks in America, but this: Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
FASCISM MARCHES ON!: We Don’t Need Know Edjicashun: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday that the Trump administration can proceed with dismantling the Education Department by firing more than a thousand workers. The order is a significant victory for the administration and could ease President Trump’s efforts to sharply curtail the federal government’s role in […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 14, 2025
Why MAGAts ‘Think’ That DOJ Is Covering Up Epstein Files. Hey, we think they’re hiding proof of Trump’s perfidy. That’s not what ‘they’ think: If you don’t know the fullness of this nonsense, the theory is that serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a singular asshole, he was really operating a ring where the girls were recruited […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 13, 2025
How Netanyahu Decided That Genocide Was How He’d Retain Power. Great long-form reporting, will no doubt win prizes, which will be well-deserved. A taste, set aside time to read the entire thing: Six months into the war in the Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to bring it to a halt. Negotiations were underway for […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Y’know, sometimes I put up stuff that I just know will generate conversation. Take yesterday’s Open Thread and Legislative Targets pieces, for example. Granted, I didn’t write anything about Israel’s ongoing killing of kids waiting in line for food, so Puck’s absence was not unexpected. But still, I was certain that some interesting conversation would ensue. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 11, 2025
‘Perhaps We Were A Bit Too Hasty…’: For months, President Donald Trump and his homeland security secretary have saidthe Federal Emergency Management Agency could be eliminated. But as the president heads to Texas to view the impact of last week’s deadly floods, administration officials say abolishing the agency outright is not on the agenda. A […]
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