Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 1, 2021
Killings By Police In America Undercounted By More Than Half. According to the British medical journal Lancet: Researchers compared information from a federal database known as the National Vital Statistics System, which collects death certificates, with recent data from three organizations that track police killings through news reports and public records requests. When extrapolating and […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
Are the media invested in ending American democracy? Sure seems that way to a lot of people, including Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who’s hopping mad that the Eastman memo, laying out how Mike Pence could have thrown the election to Trump on Jan. 6, has gotten almost no attention from the mainstream media. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 25, 2021
Rethug Gerrymanders All The Rage These Days. Not to mention, conservative courts ready to step in when the legislators won’t. Also, more proof that these so-called ‘non-partisan’ commissions are nothing more than fig leafs. Karen Bass To Run For Mayor Of Los Angeles. A great development. Progressive member of Congress, beloved by the Black community […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 24, 2021
Cyber Ninja Arizona Audit Shows Biden Got More Votes, Trump Less Votes Than Previously Recorded. Biden with 99 more votes, Trump with 261 fewer votes. Which is not stopping Trump and Texas Rethug Governor Greg Abbott from, well: Eight and a half hours after former President Donald J. Trump made a public demand for Gov. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
The conservative grift seems like such an easy dodge: Mouth a few idiotic slogans you didn’t even have to think up yourself, rake in the bucks (just ask Lauren Witzke). But there’s apparently some kind of secret code involved that prevents it from working for just anyone. For example, the crank yanker who organized a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 18, 2021
Rethugs Play Russian Roulette With Debt Ceiling. Because they can, and because everything they do is purely and solely for political gain: McConnell has declared that Senate Republicans will not vote to increase the Treasury’s authority to continue borrowing, which is the same as voting to allow a default. As he has done before, McConnell […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 17, 2021
Delaware’s AG Race: Two MAGAts To Vie For 38% Of The Vote. Although the WDEL story doesn’t mention it (c’mon, Journalism 101), Murray will run against one Chuck Welch in the Rethug Primary. (For you completists, incumbent AG Kathleen Jennings is expected to run for reelection.) Looks like it’ll be a contest as to who […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021
Thank whatever you believe in that the 20th anniversary of 9/11 passed with as little flag-waving horseshit as it did, but Jesus Christ on a tandem bike, can we stop mourning the loss of national unity? You know what unites people? Grief. It wasn’t patriotism, or feeling for our fellow Americans. It was heartsick sadness. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 11, 2021
Yes, I know what day it is. No, I’m not gonna devote this thread to it. Although you may wish to comment. Your prerogative, that’s why it’s an open thread. So. There was a House Ethics Committee meeting in Dover yesterday. Committee Chair Val Longhurst, whose ethics are not in question (she has none), has […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 10, 2021
I hear there’s a House Committee meeting taking place today. Don’t (Not allowed to) know what it’s about. Can’t (Not allowed to) attend. Business as usual under the thumbs of Speaker Peter and Our PAL Val. Biden Issues Sweeping Vaccine Mandate. Rethug Governors Threaten To Sue: Republican governors from Texas to Missouri and Georgia threatened […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021
If you want to read stories about anti-vax, anti-mask assholes, the media is there for you — can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting one of those. But the mainstream media is showing a lot less interest in a Treasury Dept. study that found the wealthiest 1% of Americans dodge as much […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021
The media, having accomplished its task of pulling down Joe Biden’s approval ratings, have mostly moved on from Afghanistan in favor of trumpeting the Texas Abortion Freakout, which means the End of Abortion Rights in This Country. Look, I’m not trying to minimize how despicable this is, but this is a country awash up to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 4, 2021
Here Are The Companies Who Funded Texas’ Anti-Abortion Supporters. ‘We have a history of giving to both sides’, blahblahblah. Where are all those tech companies who moved to Texas for lower taxes and less regulation? Will we hear from them or will they remain silent? Betcha we’ll hear from the workers. We’ve already heard from […]
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