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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 […]
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 […]
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