Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned To The US. Putting the lie to this. And this. Let me just say this–On a day when convicted Proud Boys file suit against the Department Of Justice, Garcia should get the finest attorneys who haven’t been co-opted by Trump to file the Biggest, Most Beautiful, lawsuit against all of these […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 6, 2025
We start, of course, with a Book Report. With a shout-out to Jill, who hated Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’. Jill recommended ‘Long Bright River’ by Liz Moore. So, I checked it out of the library, and read it. Jill was spot-on. The protagonist is a policewoman who patrols the drug-riddled streets of Kensington. There’s a killer who is murdering […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Judge James E. Boasberg Is My New Hero: A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to take steps toward giving nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law the due process that they had been denied. In a sweeping and at […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Oh, Just Shut Up. Some House Rethugs ‘Regret’ Voting For Big Beautiful Boondoggle: It turns out that the sprawling legislation to advance tax and spending cuts and to cement much of President Trump’s domestic agenda included a raft of provisions that drew little notice or debate on the House floor. And now, Republicans who rallied […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Kevin Caneco Goes After Do-Nothing DNREC. Good. From his press release: Wilmington, DE – Despite recent statements made by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) understating the May 31, 2025 Delaware City Refinery emission incident, prolonged exposure to persistent levels of sulfur dioxide emissions has the potential for devastating long-term health […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 2, 2025
State’s Largest Polluter Ups Its Pollution Quotient–With Impunity: The Delaware City Refinery has been continuously releasing more than permitted amounts of toxic sulfur dioxide into the air for a week now, but air quality in the area remains safe, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. (Writer’s Note: I don’t believe them. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 1, 2025
A Deep Dive Into Why Sufjan Stevens Dislikes “Carrie And Lowell”. Meaning, a deep dive into his life and his (non?) relationship with his mother: I think this album is evidence of creative and artistic failure from my vantage point. I was trying to make sense of something that is senseless. I felt that I […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Yes, He’s A Psychopath. Not even a borderline psychopath: Let me start by observing that Trump certainly is a unique character — flamboyant, politically incorrect, and enthralling to his supporters. He is the central protagonist in our current political crisis. Strikingly, he is unmoved by the wrath directed at him by his political opponents. This […]
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.
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