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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 9, 2021
Wanna Avoid Taxes? Buy Yourself A Sports Team. Here’s how: (LA Clippers’ owner Steve) Ballmer pays such a low rate, in part, because of a provision of the U.S. tax code. When someone buys a business, they’re often able to deduct almost the entire sale price against their income during the ensuing years. That allows […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, July 4, 2021
Today is worthy of celebration — it’s been a full week since Chris Coons last sold out his constituents. It’s pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the Jan. 6 insurrection was a two-pronged attack — 90% or so delusional goobers with lots more time and money than common sense, providing cover for a core […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 3, 2021
Southern Pastors Give Up On Vaccinating The Flock. Mostly in white rural congregations: Polls have consistently shown that white evangelicals are among the groups most hardened against vaccination. The most recent, a June survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 22 percent of white evangelicals said they would “definitely not” get the vaccine, a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 2, 2021
Supreme Court: You Don’t Have The Right To Vote. Justice Alito finally gets his crane shot. A political decision masquerading as a constitutional one. Elena Kagan’s blistering dissent. All 6 Rethugs supported voter suppression laws in Arizona. That’s why they’re on the Court. Arizona–isn’t there a Senator there who….? 15 Felony Counts For Weisselberg. 10 […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, July 1, 2021
The Biden presidency has been a crisis for the media — without a daily Fresh New Hell, ratings and readership are in the tank. Everybody’s web traffic is down, but it’s been especially bad for the most partisan sites on both the left and right. Remember this when you read of this week’s newest threat […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021
It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness, just like most right-wing boogeymen. While some LGBTQ activists are disappointed that the ruling didn’t improve much else where rights are concerned, the just-completed census […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 25, 2021
A Message To You Rudy: You can’t practice law in New York State: In its 33-page decision, the court said that Mr. Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. “The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 18, 2021
We (Almost) Have A Progressive General Assembly! Passage of the $15 minimum wage bill is a BFD. The Senate has become a progressive legislative body run by progressive leaders. There hasn’t been a single piece of progressive legislation that has been deep-sixed there, and a whole lot of progressive initiatives have started there. The combination […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Intercept got ahold of a Zoom call between West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and a centrist money-dispensing outfit called No Labels — founded by ex-Sen. Joe Lieberman — in which Manchin reveals his true feelings about filibuster reform, among other things. Most noteworthy to me was Manchin’s begging these donors to help him find […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 12, 2021
Trump Handed Private Equity Firms License To Avoid Taxes. The day before the Capitol riots: There were two weeks left in the Trump administration when the Treasury Department handed down a set of rules governing an obscure corner of the tax code. Overseen by a senior Treasury official whose previous job involved helping the wealthy […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Federal Judge Strikes Down Cali’s Assault Weapons Ban. Calls the AR-15 assault rifle ‘…a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.” One of Dubya’s judges. Sinema Supporter: Back Filibuster Or Get Out. Right, like she’s gonna take that advice. Are Political Ads Getting It All Wrong? Very few, if any, seek to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 4, 2021
The Second Amendment And Slavery: Perfect Together? Worthy of a REV podcast…here’s the gist of this historian’s argument: In her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states: […]
DL Open Thread For May 29, 2021
DOJ Asks Judge To Toss Lawsuit Against Trump And Barr For Violent Clearing Of Lafayette Square. Seriously, WTF? Trump and other U.S. officials are immune from civil lawsuits over police actions taken to protect a president and to secure his movements, government lawyers said of the actions taken ahead of a photo op of Trump […]
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