Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 5, 2025
Can We Have Those Expanded Tax Brackets Now?: The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments are bracing for impact as Washington shifts much of the burden for health care, food assistance and other programs onto them. Even before the bill’s […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 4, 2025
W-what? Real news on the 4th Of July? I mean, besides America’s ongoing experiment with Fascism? Ladeez And Gentlemen–YOUR 20th RD Democratic Candidate: Alonna Berry has been selected as the Democratic candidate for the upcoming special election in Delaware’s 20th House District. She will face Republican nominee Nikki Miller in the race scheduled for Aug. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Final Day Of America As We Know It? Yes. There’s no way the Rethugs get this close and fail to seal the deal on Fascism: The House took its first step early Thursday toward a final vote on President Trump’s marquee domestic policy bill, after Republicans put down a revolt by conservative holdouts that […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Just Shut Up-Part One: Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the “One Big Beautiful Bill” to the Senate for further work. “My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Major shout-outs to Joe Connor, The MoMo, and others who stayed up later than I do these days, for keeping the midnight oil burning in Leg Hall. Were there any key pieces of legislation that were expected to pass that did not get considered? Let me know. Also, for those of you who were in […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 30, 2025
I’d first like to comment on Karl Stomberg’s piece, which you should read if you have not already done so. He captures my frustration more eloquently than I’ve so far been able to. I grew up in a Democratic household during the civil rights movement. My parents benefited greatly from FDR’s New Deal policies. I […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, June 28, 2025
If you’re a progressive Democratic Party voter, you’re constantly told to shut up and vote for whatever centrist wins the nomination. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is what the party believes and practices no matter who … hold on, I’m getting an update. It turns out that if a social democrat wins the nomination for, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 27, 2025
DOGE Fights For More Guns. No, not for them, necessarily. But for Amerika: The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4, according to multiple people with knowledge of the efforts, who […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Bernie Nails It. So obvious, yet corporadems are so addicted to corporate cash: Look, he ran a brilliant campaign. And it wasn’t just him. What he understood and understands — campaign’s not over — is that to run a brilliant campaign, you have to run a grassroots campaign. So instead of taking money from billionaires […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
NYC Elects Democratic Socialist As Mayor. Well, not officially. The ranked choice balloting needs to be counted, and Eric Adams and (remember him?) Curtis Sliwa await in the fall. However, Democratic primary voters made their choice clear: Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 23, 2025
Once Again, The Press Misses The Point. I’m not gonna link to any of the ‘analysis’ of the decision-making process. Because it ignores the simple fact that the person who ordered the bombing of Iran is a deranged narcissist who just happens to be the President of the United States. Surrounded by people who were […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 22, 2025
Artist Of The Week–Beuford Smith. This obituary contains quite a few of his photographs: “Lower East Side,” 1968.Credit…Beuford Smith, via Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York Beuford Smith’s “Boy on Swing, Lower East Side,” from 1970, lends its subject shadowy weight.Credit…Beuford Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Mr. Smith came of age in the […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, June 21, 2025
Is it war yet? More to the point, is it our war yet? Pundits are sucking their thumbs extra-hard trying to figure out if and when Trump will join the Israel-Iran missile-exchange program, but most fail to consider the question, “What would an unimaginative reality-show host do?” They’d do exactly what Trump is doing – […]
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