Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 15, 2022
What Democrats Need To Do On Voting Rights Now That Democrats Sabotaged Voting Rights Legislation. Depressing, I know: With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access to voting, Democrats face an electoral landscape in which they will need to spend heavily to register and mobilize voters if […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022
How The Big Quit Happened. An absolute must-read from Mother Jones: Quits are a Janus-faced piece of economic data—a sign of how bad our work politics have gotten, and also of hope that they could be better. It signals that people are fed up but also confident they can find new jobs, often better-paying ones. […]
DL Open Thread For Thursday, January 13, 2022
No ‘Jibby-Jabby’ For This Jibber-Jabberer. With the inevitable outcome. This Super-Spreader event in Texas has been extraordinarily successful in thinning out the herd: Canon had announced on Facebook in November that her employer granted her a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine. “No jabby-jabby for me! Praise GOD!” she wrote at the time. More recently, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 9, 2022
More Anti-Vaxx Sadness. At least this guy ultimately realized what an asshole he’d been. Too late, though. Amazon Responds To Covid By–Cutting Workers’ Sick Leave. Break ’em up. They’re evil: Amazon is reducing its Covid-19 paid leave policy to seven sick days instead of the 10 workers had previously received, regardless of vaccination status. The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 7, 2022
Biden’s Speech, Annotated. He realizes how much jeopardy democracy is in. This was an essential rallying cry. How Biden Decided To Directly Confront Trump: Throughout the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency, Donald Trump was the name that must not be spoken. Inside the White House, meanwhile, the president and his team strategized about when […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 30, 2021
Who Was Winnie Spence? She was a former State Senator here in Delaware. That’s about all I knew about her until one of our great commenters shared the rest of the story. I’ll quote from him: …(S)he declined to run for reelection in 1980 the State Senate so that she could head the Delaware chapter […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Rethug-Led States Giving Unemployment Comp To Unvaccinated. Of course they are. Anything to undermine a national pandemic response. The five states?: Arkansas, Kansas, Florida, Iowa and Tennessee. ‘Half-Earth’ Solution To Climate Change? It is a proposal from noted biologist and environmental activist Edward O. Wilson, who recently passed away. The notion, which is beginning to […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 26, 2021
RIP: Desmond Tutu: As leader of the South African Council of Churches and later as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Tutu led the church to the forefront of Black South Africans’ decades-long struggle for freedom. His voice was a powerful force for nonviolence in the anti-apartheid movement, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 25, 2021
A Christmas Miracle? The James Webb Telescope Takes Off. It’s quite the undertaking: Astronomers around the world will be watching (and perhaps biting their nails) as the Webb telescope undergoes a $10 billion, monthlong game of origami. Tightly packed into a container atop the rocket during launch, the telescope will separate from the spacecraft in […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 24, 2021
RIP: Joan Didion. Not only was she America’s greatest essayist, her methodology was beyond reproach: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. If you haven’t read Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, at the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Shop-Rite To Deep-Six Cashiers. Most of them anyway. You know, to ‘improve the customer experience’. Not quoted in the article? Anybody from the Kenny family. Pretty weak article, TBH. Amazon Takes Advantage Of Tax Break Intended To Help Impoverished Communities: Amazon has been heavily expanding into areas that the government designates for special tax incentives, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 19, 2021
‘Bloodless’ Air Strikes Were Anything But Bloodless. ‘The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. Documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths–and scant accountability.’ This is a report that must be read: The trove of documents — the military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1,300 reports of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 18, 2021
‘Ye’s Campaign Run By GOP Operatives Attempting To Siphon Off Votes From Biden. Some damn good reporting from The Daily Beast. Kanye was a GOP plant. Looks like a lot of campaign laws were violated. Good thing the campaign was a disaster. Speaking Of Campaigns With The Whiff Of Disaster About Them…Take Herschel Walker. Please. […]
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