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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 9, 2025
ICE Barbie Slow-Walks FEMA Aid To North Carolina. Let’s cut through the bullshit–it’s because the state has a Democratic governor: The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million in pre-approved funds intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure still in disrepair almost a year after […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 8, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH! Both the ‘Justice’ Department And the FBI have now been weaponized into Fascist institutions. As in: FBI To Go After Texas Legislators. First thing to know is that no laws have been violated by the Democratic lawmakers: Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Thursday that FBI Director Kash Patel has […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Trump Tariffs Kick In For 90 Countries. Guess he fell about 90 short of those 100 deals: President Trump’s punishing new tariffs on more than 90 countries snapped into place after the stroke of midnight Thursday, the latest escalation in a global trade war that has started to exact a toll on the U.S. economy. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
DELAWARE CALL: How Middletown Officials Killed Police Accountability In Keeping With the Town’s Tradition: Middletown’s Police Advisory Board was formed in 2020, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police, and subsequent calls for accountability. The board was voluntarily formed, with no local or state government mandate, and held […]
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 […]
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