Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Someone asked the names and positions of those on Gov. Meyer’s staff. Here ya go. Which reminds me–has the Senate officially received Meyer’s Port board nominations yet? If so, when will they consider said nominations? If not, what’s the hold-up? Death By 1000 Cuts. NEH Grants. Automated Translation Weather Alerts. They do stuff like this […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 7, 2025
Take Your Medicine, America: President Donald Trump said Sunday evening that he is not intentionally engineering the ongoing stock market sell-off, but said little to try and dissuade it. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 6, 2025
DOJ To Court: ‘You’re Not The Boss Of Us’: Government attorneys slammed a judge’s order to return a Salvadoran immigrant to the United States, arguing in a Saturday filing that the judge’s directive was “indefensible” and that the United States has “no authority” to make a sovereign nation release the man. On Friday, U.S. District […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 5, 2025
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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 4, 2025
Something Just Broke–Trump and the Rethugs broke it. From The Economist: IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 3, 2025
“It’s A Disaster”: Trump screwing the defenseless is one thing, but this, this, is a whole ‘nother thing: Markets around the world tumbled on Thursday after President Trump announced across-the-board tariffs on America’s main trading partners, including the European Union and Japan. Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index outside normal […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race. Hope those newly-minted Musk millionaires cashed those checks already: The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years. Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
B-b-b-but Hamas!: Palestinians held funerals Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu mass grave, apparently plowed over by Israeli military bulldozers. The Palestinian Red Crescent says the slain workers and their vehicles were clearly marked as […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 31, 2025
Unholy Patrimonialism: This strikes me as explaining government under Trump–including its fatal weakness: Even those who expected the worst from his reelection (I among them) expected more rationality. Today, it is clear that what has happened since January 20 is not just a change of administration but a change of regime—a change, that is, in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 30, 2025
Musk/DOGE’s Push For The Privatization Of Public Services: Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk. The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 29, 2025
Meyer Signs Bill, Musk Does This. Coincidence?: Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion. Because both companies are privately held and controlled by Musk, the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 28, 2025
Trump’s Just Doing Weird Stuff Now. Like this: The “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo. The White House fact sheet (irony duly-noted) describing the order said it […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Yet One More ‘Disappearance’, Captured On Tape: As Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk made her way to an interfaith center to break the Ramadan fast on Tuesday, plainclothes agents, some masked, descended on her. She screamed as an unmasked agent in a hooded sweatshirt grabbed her, security video shows. Within about a minute, the agents […]
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