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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 25, 2025
Reading Recommendation: Just finished ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn. I hear they made a movie of it, but I never saw it. If you like the twisted fiction of Patricia Highsmith, you’ll love this. I do, and I did. You’ll think you see the final twist coming about three different times, but you won’t. But […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Don’t feel guilty about not reading the Open Threads during this holiday weekend. Oh, sure, I slave relentlessly over every syllable, trying to provide you with the finest DL Open Thread I’m capable of producing. The anxiety courses through my veins as I struggle over when, and how(,?) and if (,?) to use the Oxford Comma. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 23, 2025
A Plane, And Now This: President Trump gathered Thursday evening at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency, promising that he would promote the crypto industry from the White House as protesters outside condemned the event as a historic corruption of the presidency. The gala dinner held at the Trump […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Worst Bill In History Passes House. C’mon, you knew they’d find the votes, didn’tcha?: The House early Thursday narrowly passed a wide-ranging bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, after Speaker Mike Johnson put down several mini-rebellions in Republican ranks to muscle the legislation to its first major victory over unified Democratic opposition. The early morning […]
DL Open Thread: Weds., May 21, 2025
Israel Has Almost Finished The Job. Gaza has just about been cleared, perhaps for a Trump luxury resort: After more than 19 months of brutal war, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out. The renewed offensive on the Gaza Strip launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Political Arrests Becoming The Norm: The Justice Department charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a Newark immigration detention center and dropped a trespass charge against the city’s mayor that arose from the same episode, the department said Monday. Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, disclosed […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 19, 2025
Could Be A Tough Week For The Economy: Stock futures tumbled on Monday as a downgrade of the U.S.′ credit rating by Moody’s caused Treasury yields to spike. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 212 points, or 0.5%. S&P 500 futures pulled back 1%, while Nasdaq-100 futures lost 1.4%. Moody’s on Friday […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Gonna try an experiment today. May become a weekly feature, may be gone by next Sunday. Sorta like CBS Sunday Morning. More features, less timeliness. Here goes. What Do We Really Know About John Wilkes Booth? Multi-Emmy Award Winner Matthew Weiner digs deeper: Matthew Weiner has spent the past decade obsessed with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Supreme Court To Trump: No Deportations Without Due Process–At Least, Not For Now: The Trump administration will not be allowed to deport a group of Venezuelan detainees accused of being members of a violent gang under a rarely invoked wartime law while the matter is litigated in the courts, the Supreme Court said on Friday. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 16, 2025
The Shit Hits The Fan. Boy, does it. Read the entire thing. There’s so much to unpack that I can only scratch the surface with excerpts: State Rep. Sherae’a Moore’s (D-Middletown) removal from the House Education Committee has sparked a larger conversation around due process and Democratic infighting within the Delaware legislature. Moore argues her […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Trump Accepts Some Mexican Immigrants. Only the best, I might add: Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 14, 2024
Trump And A Few Of His Friends: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pose for a photo at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. | Alex Brandon/AP: When President Donald Trump, flanked by Arabian horses, entered the Saudi Arabian Royal Court for an opulent […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
We Are All Episcopalians Now: In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as […]
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