Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 30, 2025
Get Back, Taco Cat. Always Backing Down Just Isn’t Where It’s At: TACO has the potential to hurt Trump. (1) It’s simple. Trump Always Chickens Out. You can put that phrase anywhere, apply it to anything, and everyone knows what it means. (2) It’s meme-able. You have the slogan. You have the word mark. And […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Trump Pardons Everyone Bad. Nary a bleat from a Democrat: A gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise,an ex-congressman from New York who underreported earnings from his Manhattan restaurantand a Connecticut governor toppled in a corruption scandal all received clemency Wednesday in a sweeping series of orders signed by President Donald Trump. Trump extended […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
When Will Those Gazans Learn To Stand In Line Properly? Israeli troops mete out justified discipline b/c being starved for months is no excuse: Chaos and confusion broke out at a new aid center in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first full day that humanitarian assistance was being distributed through a contentious effort conceived […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Has Absolute Corruption Been Normalized Now?: The Trumps are hardly the first presidential family to profit from their time in power, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking. The Trump family and […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 26, 2025
Never was a beach person. Too much sand, followed by the nightly Meet Market. I can only conclude, then, that the nostalgia I feel for this music is because of the music: Ho-kay, might as well jump to the end of summer…: Back to the real world–tomorrow.
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 25, 2025
Reading Recommendation: Just finished ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn. I hear they made a movie of it, but I never saw it. If you like the twisted fiction of Patricia Highsmith, you’ll love this. I do, and I did. You’ll think you see the final twist coming about three different times, but you won’t. But […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Don’t feel guilty about not reading the Open Threads during this holiday weekend. Oh, sure, I slave relentlessly over every syllable, trying to provide you with the finest DL Open Thread I’m capable of producing. The anxiety courses through my veins as I struggle over when, and how(,?) and if (,?) to use the Oxford Comma. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 23, 2025
A Plane, And Now This: President Trump gathered Thursday evening at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency, promising that he would promote the crypto industry from the White House as protesters outside condemned the event as a historic corruption of the presidency. The gala dinner held at the Trump […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Worst Bill In History Passes House. C’mon, you knew they’d find the votes, didn’tcha?: The House early Thursday narrowly passed a wide-ranging bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, after Speaker Mike Johnson put down several mini-rebellions in Republican ranks to muscle the legislation to its first major victory over unified Democratic opposition. The early morning […]
DL Open Thread: Weds., May 21, 2025
Israel Has Almost Finished The Job. Gaza has just about been cleared, perhaps for a Trump luxury resort: After more than 19 months of brutal war, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out. The renewed offensive on the Gaza Strip launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Political Arrests Becoming The Norm: The Justice Department charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a Newark immigration detention center and dropped a trespass charge against the city’s mayor that arose from the same episode, the department said Monday. Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, disclosed […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 19, 2025
Could Be A Tough Week For The Economy: Stock futures tumbled on Monday as a downgrade of the U.S.′ credit rating by Moody’s caused Treasury yields to spike. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 212 points, or 0.5%. S&P 500 futures pulled back 1%, while Nasdaq-100 futures lost 1.4%. Moody’s on Friday […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Gonna try an experiment today. May become a weekly feature, may be gone by next Sunday. Sorta like CBS Sunday Morning. More features, less timeliness. Here goes. What Do We Really Know About John Wilkes Booth? Multi-Emmy Award Winner Matthew Weiner digs deeper: Matthew Weiner has spent the past decade obsessed with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. […]
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