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DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 13, 2025

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Gonna start with a story with no political implications, just because I found it fascinating: Colts veteran offensive tackle Braden Smith missed the final five games of last season because of a personal matter. Now, he’s detailing just how intense the situation was. Smith, in an interview with the Indianapolis Star published Tuesday, said he […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 12, 2025

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A White Aryan Nation?  That’s Us!  History being rewritten daily.  Most of it by Elon Musk.  For example: DOGE Now Controls Federal Grants: U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government’s long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds, according to four people who spoke […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 11, 2025

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Supreme Court Gets One Right.  Sort-of: The Supreme Court on Thursday instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Always with a caveat: “The order properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 10, 2025

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If you’re looking for wisdom on the latest Trump whiplash-inducing move, you’ll have to look elsewhere.  OK, I’ll share Josh Marshall’s take with you. About Damn Time. Younger D’s Challenge Entrenched Incumbents: A small but growing group of young Democrats are being propelled to act by outrage among rank-and-file voters, and especially among young people. […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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It’s On!  Trump’s Tariffs Kick Off Global Trade War: President Trump’s global trade war intensified on Wednesday as China announced additional levies on American goods, hitting back at the United States hours after Mr. Trump’s punishing new tariffs took effect. Stocks and bonds slumped again on the moves, which heightened fears of a global recession […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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Someone asked the names and positions of those on Gov. Meyer’s staff.  Here ya go.  Which reminds me–has the Senate officially received Meyer’s Port board nominations yet?  If so, when will they consider said nominations?  If not, what’s the hold-up? Death By 1000 Cuts.  NEH Grants.  Automated Translation Weather Alerts.  They do stuff like this […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, April 7, 2025

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Take Your Medicine, America: President Donald Trump said Sunday evening that he is not intentionally engineering the ongoing stock market sell-off, but said little to try and dissuade it. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 6, 2025

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DOJ To Court:  ‘You’re Not The Boss Of Us’: Government attorneys slammed a judge’s order to return a Salvadoran immigrant to the United States, arguing in a Saturday filing that the judge’s directive was “indefensible” and that the United States has “no authority” to make a sovereign nation release the man. On Friday, U.S. District […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 5, 2025

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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 4, 2025

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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 4, 2025

Something Just Broke–Trump and the Rethugs broke it.  From The Economist: IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 3, 2025

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“It’s A Disaster”:  Trump screwing the defenseless is one thing, but this, this, is a whole ‘nother thing: Markets around the world tumbled on Thursday after President Trump announced across-the-board tariffs on America’s main trading partners, including the European Union and Japan. Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index outside normal […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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Liberal Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race.  Hope those newly-minted Musk millionaires cashed those checks already: The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years. Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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B-b-b-but Hamas!: Palestinians held funerals Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu mass grave, apparently plowed over by Israeli military bulldozers. The Palestinian Red Crescent says the slain workers and their vehicles were clearly marked as […]

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