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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 21, 2023
BREAKING: Trump Judge Sets Classified Docs Trial For May Of 2024. Don’t think Trump will like this…even though it’s depleting his war chest: Any distinction between the former president’s White House bid and his criminal defense is vanishing as the charges against him mount. Fighting those prosecutions is increasingly dominating his time, resources and messaging, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 20, 2023
Speaker McCarthy Makes Another Promise He Can’t Keep. Because–Trump: After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested on national television last month that Donald Trump may not be the GOP’s best presidential nominee in 2024, the former president was furious — and wanted the California Republican to rectify the slight immediately. “He needs to endorse me — […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 16, 2023
Saudis Bled Arizona’s Aquifers Dry? Legally? It appears so: BUTLER VALLEY, Ariz. — A megadrought has seared Arizona, stressing its rivers and reservoirs and reducing water to a trickle in the homes of farmworkers near this desert valley. But green fields of alfalfa stretch across thousands of acres of the desert land, shimmering in the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 15, 2023
What Could Be More Dangerous Than Drag Queens Launching ICBM Missiles? Um, this guy? (Watch the video): U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale worries that drag queens at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. He called transgender soldiers too mentally unstable to serve. “We have drag shows taking place at Malmstrom Air […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 14, 2023
Wish I could tell you more, but I had a great time yesterday evening. I met several incredible candidates who will be running for the General Assembly next year. Can’t wait until you get to meet them…plus…there are more coming! But, I digress. Climate Change Is Here. Now. The denialists weren’t only wrong, they exacerbated […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, July 13, 2023
Sorry for the late post, everybody else is off and my plane was late. The DOJ is appealing the sentences handed down to Oath Keepers because their sentences, including 18 years for head dipshit Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy, are well below sentencing guidelines. Personally, I fail to see why the sentence was not death […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 9, 2023
Science Activism Flourishing All Over The World. Which is what happens when despots and cranks lie about what is scientifically-proven fact and/or seek to silence scientists: Hundreds of scientists protested government efforts to restrict educational access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s theory of evolution, in June 2023 in India. Similarly, scientists in Mexico participated […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 8, 2023
QAnon Cult Leader Has Died–Perhaps Has Been Resurrected As JFK, Jr.: The leader of a QAnon cult who convinced thousands of people that former president John F. Kennedy and his son JFK, Jr. are still alive has died, VICE News can exclusively report. Michael Protzman, 60, died last Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 7, 2023
Trump Supporters Post Names And Addresses Of Prosecutors. Trump also posted Obama’s home address. On cue, whack-job showed up near there with weapons. That can’t be legal, can it?: Individual prosecutors involved in the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere, according to extremism experts […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 6, 2023
Country’s Most Powerful Lobbyists Campaign Both For And AGAINST Climate Reform. Depressing. Like ‘centrists’, they stand for nothing save enriching themselves: More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 2, 2023
I can’t (or choose not to) read everything (although I’m reading a pretty amazing novel entitled “Chain Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah right now. The Greg Abbotts of the World might get some ideas. Which is not the author’s point at all). But I digress. My point being that I love it when our readers send […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 1, 2023
A new day: At least the Supreme Court can’t inflict any more damage until October, can they? Plus, LLC’s and corporations still can’t vote in Seaford–until January, at least. How long will Miss Texas Remain Miss Texas? Not for long, I suspect. She’s letting everyone know that MAGAt Texas isn’t her Texas: What is startling […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 30, 2023
Supreme Court Kills Affirmative Action. Because why should Black kids be as entitled as legacy fuck-ups at major institutions?: “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in […]
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