Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 21, 2022
‘Hate Will Only Win If People Like Me Stand By And Let It Happen.’ One Democratic State Senator breaking from the torpor of the Democratic Party: When Michigan Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow stood on the chamber floor to take on a Republican colleague who had accused her of wanting to sexually groom children, she […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 17, 2022
Happy Whatever-It-Is-You’re Celebrating-Or-Not-Celebrating-Day! Child Poverty Is Back: All of this was data from just a couple of months. The real power of money like this comes over time. A different paper, also out of Columbia, looked at a range of studies on the benefits of cash payments to families with young children. Here’s the takeaway: […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 16, 2022
Trump Seeks To Impose His Will With Dubious Endorsements. Dr. Oz? J. D. Vance? I dunno: Trump’s decision, against the advice of some of his advisers, plunged the former president deep into a messy primary — sparking an internecine fight among some of his own advisers along with considerable backlash from many other Republicans. “I’m […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 15, 2022
Stop Minor Traffic Stops. Save Lives: Los Angeles last month became the biggest city to restrict the policing of minor violations. In Philadelphia, a ban on such stops has just taken effect. Pittsburgh; Seattle; Berkeley, Calif.; Lansing, Mich.; Brooklyn Center, Minn.; and the State of Virginia have all taken similar steps. Elsewhere across the country, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Absolute Must-Read: Pro Publica On Tax Avoidance By The Wealthy. Award-worthy, great graphics, and exceedingly aggravating. You Ever Get Mail From Hillsdale College? I do. Buncha RWNJ’s pretending to be a college. They’re now building a string of charter schools to combat ‘leftist academics’: With only 1,500 students on a small-town campus in southern Michigan, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 10, 2022
Putin Names General Responsible For Syrian Atrocities To Head Invasion Of Ukraine. There must be a way to take Putin out. Meet The New Murdoch, As Despicable As The Old Murdoch. Lest you had thought that anyone in that family was capable of introspection: In a speech in Sydney celebrating a new initiative at a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 9, 2022
Michigan Conspirators Skate On Plans To Kidnap Michigan Governor. In case you missed it, justice isn’t blind. Never was. Wow–Federal Funds Being Used For Something Other Than Tax Rebates: The better side of Michiganders’ nature: LANSING, Mich. — In an underserved neighborhood of Michigan’s capital city, a health clinic is being built with nearly $900,000 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday April 8, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes First Black Woman To Be Confirmed To Supreme Court: The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, felling one of the most significant remaining racial barriers in American government and sending the first Democratic nominee to the high court in 12 years. Jackson, a daughter […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 7, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Set To Be Elevated To Supreme Court Today. Hey, we dodged the Breyer nightmare. That’s something: A final vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation is expected around 1:45 p.m. Eastern, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) told his colleagues Wednesday night. President Biden’s nominee, who is expected to draw […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 3, 2022
Merrick Garland: Justice’s Rain Delay. He would have been terrible on the Supreme Court–worse than Stephen Breyer. He’s enabling criminals and insurrectionists: The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 2, 2022
Re: Clarence Thomas: D’s Are Total Wusses. The usual suspects doing the usual thing. Nothing: Given his wife’s role in encouraging the effort to overturn the election that culminated in the awful events of that day, Clarence Thomas should obviously recuse himself from any case having to do with Jan. 6. But what can Democrats […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 1, 2022
Not a big fan of April Fool’s posts. This will not be one of them. At least, not on purpose. Fools, however, will almost inevitably be present. Did Everybody See The First Semi-Expose Of Ft. DuPont In Mainstream Media? If not, you have now. While it doesn’t revisit the early years when disgraced former State […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 31, 2022
I Sure Hope That Madison Cawthorn Is Telling The Truth For Once. He almost certainly isn’t, but still: After Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) went on a podcast and alleged that some of his Republican colleagues in Congress are orgy-frequenting degenerates with a fondness for hard drugs, members of the House GOP had a simple response […]
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