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DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025
A Cardinal Fan?: Photo: The White House The Musk Myth As Kabuki Theatre? Howzabout a little schadenfreude to start your day?: It’s ornate. It’s stylized. It’s ritualized. And like all Kabuki, it is not meant to reflect reality—it is meant to perform power. But now, the performance is faltering. The cast is walking offstage. The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 2, 2025
Trump Judge Declares Trump Deportation Policy Illegal: A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants. US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez said Donald Trump’s use of the wartime power was “unlawful” and had been improperly invoked. The law was written in 1798 to allow […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Satire Is Dead: Port Of Wilmington Edition. General Assembly creates a task force with no legal authority, ‘Honorables’ feign anger when Governor’s people don’t show up: The inaugural meeting on Wednesday of a port oversight task force that lawmakers had created over objections from Gov. Matt Meyer became the latest front in a months-long power […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
I’ve (largely) avoided MSNBC and (completely) avoided polling since the election. However, as Trump hits the 100-day-in-office mark, I compromise on my principles, if only just this once: This only matters if, you know, elections still take place. Which is ‘to be determined’. Problem is, he’s done so much bad stuff that it won’t simply […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Trump Unites Canada: Prime Minister Mark Carney led his Liberal Party to a narrow victory in Canada’s pivotal election on Monday, securing a fourth term in power for the party and a renewed mandate to lead the fight against President Trump over trade and the nation’s sovereignty. Mr. Carney, a former central banker who was […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 28, 2025
More Of This, Please: In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign. “Paramount began to supervise our content in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 27, 2025
‘Kid Has Stage 4 Cancer? Let Honduras Deal With It’: Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Trump Judge Draws Line At Deporting 2-Year-Old With ‘No Meaningful Process’. We’re talking about a judge who frustrated Biden at every turn: A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 25, 2025
The National Democratic Party Sucks Multitudes. I thought the new Chair was the same old, same old. Now I know the new Chair is the same old, same old: Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, has announced a proposal requiring party officials to remain neutral in primary elections, challenging activist David Hogg […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Everything’s For Sale: President Donald Trump raised a record $239 million for his 2025 inauguration celebrations, propelled by contributions from corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals — including more than a dozen people Trump has nominated to a variety of roles in his administration. Donors to his inaugural committee included picks for ambassadorships, members of Trump’s Cabinet […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 23, 2024
Did my first door-to-door campaigning of the year yesterday evening. Definitely feel healthier this morning…you should try it. Tesla Tanks-Musk Rethinks Priorities?: The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, said he will start pulling back from his role at the so-called “department of government efficiency” starting in May. Musk’s remarks came as the company reported a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Hegseth’s Days Are Numbered. Hey, let’s start with a little video from the Man Himself. From the exclusive White House Easter Egg Hunt. In front of his kids: Well, were I inclined to, I’d point out that one of those ‘anonymous’ sources was the guy who was writing up Hegseth’s propaganda for him and who […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 21, 2025
THE POPE HAS DIED: Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced on Monday, ending a groundbreaking pontificate that sought, however haltingly, to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution. As tributes poured in from global leaders offering condolences to the world’s Catholics and praising the pontiff’s commitment to the poor and marginalized, […]
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