Open Thread
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025
‘Da Plane, Da Plane’. The perfect embodiment of the corruption permeating this administration: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025
We start today with a Rorschach Test: Thoughts? Comments? Because Nothing In The Belichick/Hudson Saga Is Too Cringe-y For Me: A few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, just before the show began, the most successful coach in NFL history slipped in through a side door of the State of Maine Grand Ballroom. A pink tie […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Wasn’t Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering suspending immigrants’ right to challenge their detention in court before being deported. “The Constitution is clear,” he told reporters outside the White House, arguing that […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025
They’re Just Trolling Us Now. Jeanine Pirro For DC AG. Some Influencer Who Isn’t A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General. Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of Congress and Acting Head Of FEMA to release the following statement: Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media Thursday, calling her a “total crack […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025
‘That Boy Ain’t Right’. We’re talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Suh-prize, Suh-prize, It Was Never About Anti-Semitism. Just MAGAts going after an institution they don’t like: The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out. To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
You see what Trump’s doing, right? The exact same thing he’s done with his businesses for his entire career. Only with the Justice Department acting as his personal attorneys. He floods the zone with illegality, then he just draws everything out through the courts. Pretty much everything that has reached final resolution, which isn’t all […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 5, 2025
Trump Abandons Any Pretense Of Ethics, Rakes In Dirty Money From All Over. Trump Cryptocurrency. Trump’s Corrupt Kids: A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025
A Cardinal Fan?: Photo: The White House The Musk Myth As Kabuki Theatre? Howzabout a little schadenfreude to start your day?: It’s ornate. It’s stylized. It’s ritualized. And like all Kabuki, it is not meant to reflect reality—it is meant to perform power. But now, the performance is faltering. The cast is walking offstage. The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 2, 2025
Trump Judge Declares Trump Deportation Policy Illegal: A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants. US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez said Donald Trump’s use of the wartime power was “unlawful” and had been improperly invoked. The law was written in 1798 to allow […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Satire Is Dead: Port Of Wilmington Edition. General Assembly creates a task force with no legal authority, ‘Honorables’ feign anger when Governor’s people don’t show up: The inaugural meeting on Wednesday of a port oversight task force that lawmakers had created over objections from Gov. Matt Meyer became the latest front in a months-long power […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
I’ve (largely) avoided MSNBC and (completely) avoided polling since the election. However, as Trump hits the 100-day-in-office mark, I compromise on my principles, if only just this once: This only matters if, you know, elections still take place. Which is ‘to be determined’. Problem is, he’s done so much bad stuff that it won’t simply […]
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