Open Thread

More Trump Tariff Rope-A-Dope: Stock markets in Europe and across Asia-Pacific countries have fallen after Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of US trading partners. Last night, as the…

First, a question on the upcoming Special Session: Usually, when there has been a Special Session, pretty much everything has been prepared in advance.  Raising my concern: Will this Special…

BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change.  Who sez so? Trump's EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to…

Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of…

Robert Reich: "We Blew It".  By 'we', I'm talkin' baby boomers, of which I am one.  A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily…

Volkswagen's Slave Ranch In Brazil.  I'd never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The…

One More Way That Hulk Hogan's Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was,…

There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps.  Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian…

The Cover-Up Uncovered: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the…

First, some thoughts on tomorrow's scheduled Delaware City meeting on the proposed data center.  We will almost certainly be able to figure out what Speaker Mimi's and Nicole 'No Longer'…

$64 Billion In Data Center Projects Have Already Been Blocked Or Delayed. TL;DR: $64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of…

Build Data Center, Destroy Water Supply: After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff…

50 Years On, Who Ya Got?  'A Chorus Line' Or 'Chicago'?  Back in 1975, or maybe 1976, me and a bunch of my theatre friends went to NYC and saw…