Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022
Jan. 6 Panel To Congress: Bar Trump From Running Again: The committee’s recommendations largely deal with how best to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the Jan. 6 attack, reflecting the report’s broader focus on the former president’s conduct. The report notes that the 14th Amendment allows barring people from office who “engaged in […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 22, 2022
Good news!: The days will start getting a little longer from now on. Just thought you’d like to know…hang in there. Who Created ‘Libs Of TikTok’? Confession: I’d never heard of it until I read the article, but it’s an anti-LGBTQ Twitter account that has had the likes of Fox and Joe Rogan amplifying its […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they have in 20 years, with employee rights and job security being the second and third reasons for labor organizing. But unions aren’t the only route […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 17, 2022
How A Walk In The Park Became Putin’s War. Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities…: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 16, 2022
Latest Muskmare: Investigative Reporters Tossed Off Twitter. For allegedly telling people where the ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ was. Which wasn’t true: Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 15, 2022
AG’s Office Concludes That Fort DuPont Redevelopment Corporation Broke Law. Tip of the sombrero to one of our fave tipsters: “The petitions allege that the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation (“FDRPC”) violated FOIA by not responding to two FOIA requests seeking records relating to financial audits of the FDRCP. This correspondence serves as a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
We’re back. Didn’t know what happened to Jason–until I got that ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcard from Hawaii. Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the Delaware Liberal treasury (which wouldn’t have gotten him as far as Marcus Hook)? Anyway, he’s OK, but we’ve put him in ‘time-out’ for the day. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Pa. Rethugs Lose Election–Try To Steal It In Court. By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court late Friday to prevent voters from filling three vacant seats in February that will determine majority control of the chamber. Rep. Bryan Cutler of Lancaster, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 10, 2022
For All You Science Nerds, (Let’s see, there’s Unstable Isotope, and that’s about it), Is This How To Beat Covid?: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape natural antibodies, it also loses sensitivity to therapeutic antibody drugs. By contrast, evolution selects for binding to ACE2, the cell-surface receptor required for SARS-CoV-2 infection. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 9, 2022
The Sinema Enema. Flushed herself out of the bowels of the Democratic Party. Here’s my quick early take: Well, we know she can’t run as a D in Arizona again. Maybe the R’s will have her, maybe they won’t. Maybe she’ll go the Sore Loserman route. Problem is–what, exactly, is her constituency? Going the Third […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Brittany Griner Released! In exchange for an arms dealer: The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad. Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist whose monthslong imprisonment on drug charges brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees. Biden’s authorization to […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 4, 2022
Dominion Vs. Fox Case Heats Up In Delaware Superior Court. For once, I’m a Dominionist: Although the law leans in the media’s favor in defamation cases, Dominion has what independent observers have said is an unusually strong case. Day after day, Fox hosts and guests repeated untrue stories about Dominion’s ties to communist regimes and […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 2, 2022
Last Call For Albert Cummings–We already have what I call a ‘Covid sellout’, meaning a sellout minus the 20% or so of our audience that still hasn’t come back. For those of you who like your blues with a side order of country, perhaps this will entice you: You know what to do. Just. Do. […]
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