Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 20, 2023
Debt Ceiling Blues, Featuring The Profound Shittiness That Is Chris Coons: So, are Democrats negotiating on the debt limit? “The president is,” replied Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the party. “My short answer is, no. Because negotiating the debt ceiling means saying, ‘maybe we should consider default,’” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 19, 2023
A Real Headline From Today’s Washington Post: “World Watches In Disbelief And Horror As US Nears Possible Default”. Apocalyptic, much? Here’s a sentence I can get behind: And foreign economists and policymakers are bewildered over why the United States has imposed a specific limit on its debt and then turned it into a political football. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Three Headlines From This Morning’s NYTimes: South Carolina House Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children Montana Governor Signs Total Ban of TikTok in the State. The New Normal. Might As Well Add This One: A federal appeals court on Wednesday seemed prepared to limit access to a key abortion […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 14,2023
Rethugs Fundraise, Pocket All The $$’s For Themselves: A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 13, 2023
About That Proposed Truth Social Merger…man, there’s always some shady outfit ready to do business (aka launder money) with Trump: An obscure financial entity with connections to a Caribbean-island bank that bills itself as a top payment service for adult entertainment sites would gain a sizable stake in former president Donald Trump’s media company if […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 12, 2023
First, a Very Special Crossover from yesterday’s Post-Game Wrap-up/Pre-game Show. The LLC’s And Corporations In Seaford Are People bill was not worked. Which doesn’t mean it’s dead. Four reps were absent yesterday (there have been quite a few absences this week), so maybe there weren’t enough yes votes to meet the 2/3rds requirement for the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Delaware House Administration Committee: LLC’s Are People. Release bill that will enable business owners who don’t reside in Seaford to vote in Seaford elections. Southern Baptist Churches Losing Members In Droves. Catering to old angry white dudes and trafficking in COVID denialism turned out to be a losing strategy: Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Delaware holds school board elections today. The News Journal ran a useful voters’ guide, but I don’t know if it’s behind the paywall. Meanwhile, RISE Delaware, the group fighting Gov. Carney’s proposed downgrade to state retirees’ health care, has scheduled a rally at Legislative Hall from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The never-ending legal problems of […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 7, 2023
‘Thoughts And Prayers’ For Texas Gun Victims. This. Is. Intolerable: A gunman opened fire on an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb on Saturday afternoon, killing at least eight people — including children — and injuring at least seven others before he was fatally shot by a police officer, authorities said. Children were among the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 6, 2023
I’m tossing in my nickname for Eric Buckson, along with his (not-so politically correct) theme song: You’re welcome. Good luck getting that song out of your heads. Drip, Drip, Drip. Phony Georgia Electors Granted Immunity: Prosecutors for Georgia’s Fulton County have granted immunity to at least eight people under investigation for conspiring to overturn Georgia’s […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 5, 2023
If you read only one Open Thread today, make it this one! Because the tides are turning (in one case, literally), and it’s beginning to feel like Watergate Summer. As in drip, drip, drip. Starting with the rusty orange drip: A New ‘Deep Throat’ Threatens Trump On Hiding Of Classified Documents: Federal prosecutors investigating former […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Family That Rules Montana. As in, the man who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee; his daughter, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee; and his son, who is the Speaker of the House. They are Christian conservatives with decidedly un-Christian views: During a legislative hearing in 2011 that was a prelude to Montana’s debates on abortion, State […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 30, 2023
How George Mason Became The Federalist Society’s Go-To Law School: In the fall of 2017, an administrator at George Mason University’s law school circulated a confidential memo about a prospective hire. Just months earlier, Neil M. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, had won confirmation to the Supreme Court seat left vacant by […]
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