Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022
Do You Suffer From ‘Twitter Poisoning’? I admit that I’m fascinated by this seeming social media meltdown, probably because this blog is as close as I come to social media. Anyway: I have observed a change, or really a narrowing, in the public behavior of people who use Twitter or other social media a lot. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 11, 2022
The Death Of Social Media? Can’t come soon enough for me. Good article, including a history of how we (well, not me) got to where we are: It’s over. Facebook is in decline, Twitter in chaos. Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 10, 2022
The so-called mainstream media will never learn. Once again, they focused on the coming (and illusory) Red Wave to the exclusion, or at least diminution, of covering the ongoing attacks on democracy, which was clearly the story of the election lead-up. No doubt they will do some post-election ‘soul-searching’, then return to doing exactly the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Musk Blatantly Violated Cali Law With Mass Firings. He’s not escaping this unscathed. Hopefully, all of the fired employees will be made somewhat whole. Anyone who’s lost a job knows how traumatic it can be. ‘OPEC Of Rainforests’? Can this alliance help halt deforestation?: The big three tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 5, 2022
How Putin And His Allies Stalled Climate Reform. Yes, Trump was one of his allies: He has been abetted by powerful world leaders who share his nationalist or authoritarian leanings and who, together, have swept in to buy his coal, oil and gas and enabled him to finance his war. While their motivations for backing […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 4, 2022
Everything Falls Apart. I think we’re there. I have never been as pessimistic about our future as I am now. And I’m a pessimist at heart: We’re all gonna die, right? The Big Lie has taken hold, aided and abetted by the Democrats and the media. You know, the ones who ‘soul-search’ after each election, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 30, 2022
Will Christine O’Donnell dress as ‘Not A Witch’? For years, I dressed as a ‘Non-Essential State Employee’. Had that costume nailed. I Call Bullshit On This Piece: Democratic leadership has for the most part has been subdued in their response, allowing it to naturally seep in to the consciousness of voters, giving the story time […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 29, 2022
How To Leave Twitter And Protect Your Personal Information. A (I think) useful How-To. For me, Delaware Liberal is the closest I get to social media. Sometimes it pays to be anti-social. The Attack On Paul Pelosi Was No Random Crime. Which was how Fox ‘News’ reported it. It was an attempted assassination carried out […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 28, 2022
Elon Musk And Twitter Get Married. Step-kids (workers) likely to be disowned. Conspiracy theorists rejoice. Is Trump back on there yet?: The closing of the deal, which followed months of drama and legal challenges as Mr. Musk changed his mind about buying the company, sets Twitter on an uncertain course. Mr. Musk, a self-described “free […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Mega-Donors Roll Call. Whose billions are driving the election? What Happens When Conspiracy Theorists Force A Hand Count Of Ballots. We’re talkin’ Nye County, NV: Volunteers in a rural Nevada county where voting machine conspiracy theories led to an unprecedented hand-count of mail-in ballots came face-to-face with one messy reality of their plan Wednesday: It’s […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 23, 2022
The Whack-Job PAC Behind Those Disgusting Ads. You know, the ones that are playing during the baseball playoffs: Baseball fans in California and Pennsylvania watching the playoffs last Saturday had to sit through commercial breaks that included racist, xenophobic ads filled with misleading and false claims. “You worked hard for what you have,” one of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 22, 2022
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Papers Held US Secrets About China And Iran. You know, the papers that were ‘his’ papers: Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter. If shared with others, the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 21, 2022
Democrats Poised To Lose To MAGAts in SOS Positions. Outspending their election denier foes 57-1. Still losing: Such is the plight of many Democratic candidates for secretary of state, an office that has long lived in political obscurity and rarely inspired great passions among voters. But in 2022, after secretaries of state helped thwart Donald […]
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