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DL Open Thread Thursday, July 13, 2023
Sorry for the late post, everybody else is off and my plane was late. The DOJ is appealing the sentences handed down to Oath Keepers because their sentences, including 18 years for head dipshit Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy, are well below sentencing guidelines. Personally, I fail to see why the sentence was not death […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 9, 2023
Science Activism Flourishing All Over The World. Which is what happens when despots and cranks lie about what is scientifically-proven fact and/or seek to silence scientists: Hundreds of scientists protested government efforts to restrict educational access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s theory of evolution, in June 2023 in India. Similarly, scientists in Mexico participated […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 8, 2023
QAnon Cult Leader Has Died–Perhaps Has Been Resurrected As JFK, Jr.: The leader of a QAnon cult who convinced thousands of people that former president John F. Kennedy and his son JFK, Jr. are still alive has died, VICE News can exclusively report. Michael Protzman, 60, died last Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 7, 2023
Trump Supporters Post Names And Addresses Of Prosecutors. Trump also posted Obama’s home address. On cue, whack-job showed up near there with weapons. That can’t be legal, can it?: Individual prosecutors involved in the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere, according to extremism experts […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 6, 2023
Country’s Most Powerful Lobbyists Campaign Both For And AGAINST Climate Reform. Depressing. Like ‘centrists’, they stand for nothing save enriching themselves: More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 2, 2023
I can’t (or choose not to) read everything (although I’m reading a pretty amazing novel entitled “Chain Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah right now. The Greg Abbotts of the World might get some ideas. Which is not the author’s point at all). But I digress. My point being that I love it when our readers send […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 1, 2023
A new day: At least the Supreme Court can’t inflict any more damage until October, can they? Plus, LLC’s and corporations still can’t vote in Seaford–until January, at least. How long will Miss Texas Remain Miss Texas? Not for long, I suspect. She’s letting everyone know that MAGAt Texas isn’t her Texas: What is startling […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 30, 2023
Supreme Court Kills Affirmative Action. Because why should Black kids be as entitled as legacy fuck-ups at major institutions?: “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in […]
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 […]
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