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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 31, 2023

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Submitted Without Comment… …From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden’s the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars: The message Michael Farris had come to deliver was a simple one: The time to act was now. For decades, Farris — a conservative Christian […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 27, 2023

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Don’t Read This At The Airport:  5000 Pilots Hiding Major Medical Issues?: Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they were receiving benefits for mental health disorders and other serious conditions that could make them unfit to fly, documents and interviews show. The pilots under […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 26,2023

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Republican Moms, Black Legislators, Join Forces In Tennessee.  Against gun violence: A group of mothers from The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, reached across the aisle to show their support and appreciation for the Democratic representatives fighting for real common-sense gun safety legislation on Thursday. The moment was captured on video, provided by @TheTNHoller. It […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 25, 2023

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That. Mug. Shot. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office) At first, I was fixated by the Death Stare, figuring that Trump had rehearsed this ad nauseum in order to look as resolute as Winston Churchill in that famous WW II photo. Then, inevitably, my eyes became riveted on his ‘dome-icile’, and what does, or doesn’t, reside therein.  […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Didn’t watch the debate.  Didn’t watch the commentary after the debate.  That ‘climate change is a hoax’ would seem to be disqualifying, though.  Even to Rethugs.  Pretty sure that farmers don’t think it’s a hoax. However, pretty sure ‘the media’ needs Vivek, so we’re gonna get an endless hype train–until it’s time to toss him […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 20, 2023

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Gretchen Whitmer Scours Red States For Workers And Employers.  My preferred choice for President: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been promoting her state as a place that respects freedom ― as in, the ability to control what happens to your body, who you love, or how you identify yourself. Now Whitmer is taking that […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 19, 2023

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Rudy (Desperately) Needs Trump’s Dollars.  Trump Ain’t Paying Up.  Sad: Rudolph W. Giuliani is running out of money and looking to collect from a longtime client who has yet to pay: former President Donald J. Trump. To recover the millions of dollars he believes he is owed for his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023

We’se Proud Of Our Guy: Rory Ehrlich, 6, of West Pottsgrove, won the kid’s division of the USA Mullet Championships in August 2023, beating out more the 900 children for the title. Charles Fox / Staff Photographer / Philadelphia Inquirer Trump’s Lawyers Request Brief Trial Pause–Until 2026.  Because he’s such a crook and they have […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 17, 2023

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When You’ve Lost The Cato Institute…:  We’re talking yet another Koch Bros enterprise dedicated to their version of ‘libertarianism’, aka unfettered freedom for oligarchs: Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to predict how the various prosecutions of Donald Trump are likely to turn out. But no longer. I believe yesterday’s indictment in Georgia sealed Trump’s fate, […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The Fulton County grand jury threw the book at Trump, and the book is “Treason for Dummies.” They also lodged charges against 18 other defendants, most notably Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and the rest of Trump’s collection of crooked lawyers. The dragnet also nailed some of the conspiracy’s fake electors, plus a clutch of shitbags […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 13, 2023

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Wisconsin Rethugs Threaten To Impeach Justice Who Could Overturn Blatant Gerrymandering.  Election nullification MAGAt-style: But when liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz trounced her conservative opponent in the state Supreme Court election in April, it was a big win—not just for those who care about reestablishing their reproductive rights, but for anyone who genuinely cares about representative democracy. […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 12, 2023

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The Fuck-Up That Is Hunter Biden Isn’t Going Away.  Yeahyeah, I know all about false equivalency, which only matters to people who haven’t allowed their brains to rot.  Still, there’s no doubt that Hunter grifted off his old man’s name, even if he was never able to deliver promised favors from the old man: They […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 11, 2023

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Trump. Projection Much?: 1: “What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country […] OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER.” 2: “I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe […]

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