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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Some Florida-Sized Corruption By DeSantis. How about a $92 mill highway construction project on behalf of a guy who gave the Governor a ‘golf simulator’?: The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) steered $92 million last year in leftover federal coronavirus stimulus money to a controversial highway interchange project that directly benefits a top […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 25, 2023
The Coup That Wasn’t: The leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, is expected to go to Belarus under a deal brokered by the Belarusian president, putting an end to a shocking, albeit short-lived, challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Prigozhin will not be prosecuted, a Kremlin spokesman said, adding that Wagner forces […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 24, 2023
Need To Repost This. You know, with the relentless heat wave in Texas and all: In a week when parts of the state are getting triple-digit temperatures and weather officials urge Texans to stay cool and hydrated, Gov. Greg Abbott gave final approval to a law that will eliminate local rules mandating water breaks for […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 23, 2023
Supreme Court To Navajo Nation: “No Water For You”. Chief Justice Roberts could have flipped the decision with his vote, but didn’t. Justice Gorsuch (!?) goes nuc-u-lar: “Where do the Navajo go from here? To date, their efforts to find out what water rights the United States holds for them have produced an experience familiar […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 22, 2023
The Story That Led To Alito’s ‘Pre-buttal’: In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 18, 2023
This Is How You Run A Government: Assuming the 2000 tons of lightweight recycled glass nuggets hold steady, the Rethugs can cross Pennsylvania off their list of competitive states for 2024: “We are going to get traffic moving again, thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here,” Shapiro (D) said during remarks at […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 17, 2023
Minneapolis Cops Were Racist And Out Of Control: The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and discriminated against Black and Native American people in the years before one of its officers killed George Floyd, federal authorities said Friday. The Justice Department report presented a dire portrayal of the Minneapolis department as a place where […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 16, 2023
Southern Baptists To Wimmenfolk: You Ain’t Welcome Here: Two summers ago, an insurgent group of ultraconservative Southern Baptists branded themselves as pirates, vowing to “take the ship” of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and steer it farther to the right on issues like sexuality and race. They were determined to halt what they saw as […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 15, 2023
RIP Frank Biondi. There was a time when all respectable newspapers would publish obituaries that staffers had written for notable local figures who had passed. Frank Biondi was a highly-accomplished public-spirited citizen who made quite a permanent mark on Wilmington and on Delaware. From the obituary that someone had to pay for and to write: […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 10, 2023
Read The Indictment. Go ahead, I’ve got time. Again, I Must Emphasize, Not Satire. MAGAt ‘Relationship Expert’ Gets Harsh Sentence–And Gets Thrown Out Of His Wine Club: A self-described Haddonfield sex and relationship strategist and “pickup artist” who livestreamed his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was convicted Friday by […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 9, 2023
A good day for democracy, such as it remains: Trump Indicted On Federal Charges. Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Gerrymander In Alabama. The solemn heads said that that this is not a time for celebration. We had wine, so we celebrated. ‘Only The Best Lawyers’. No, not Trump this time. We’re talking ‘Santos’, which is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Need I say more? Phony Man Of God Dies: Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s enterprises also included […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 4, 2023
The False Equivalency Between ‘Hard Right And Hard Left’ In Debt Ceiling Debate. Meant to write about this when I saw the WaPo headline about this. It’s lazy journalism and lazy editing, and it perpetuates a lie: Here’s how, in its lead story Thursday, the New York Times described the House’s vote to resolve Republicans’ […]
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