Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 10, 2022
Five Takeaways From The Jan. 6 Hearings. First and foremost, Trump was at the center: They made it clear that, for all his ongoing bluster about stolen elections, Mr. Trump had knowingly spread claims about election fraud that people closest to him knew were false, tried to use the apparatus of government and the courts […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 9, 2022
Will Serial Sexual Predator Be Cleveland’s Starting QB This Year? Cleveland traded for this guy while completely aware of his alleged proclivities. His former team enabled his behavior, including requiring NDA’s from victims: The accusations have been frequent and startling: more than two dozen women have said the football star Deshaun Watson harassed or assaulted them […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Say what you like about Liz Cheney, she has more balls than 90% of Washington’s Democrats. She told CBS News that the Jan. 6 conspiracy was broad and well-organized. Funny, I don’t see Chris Coons rushing to applaud her bipartisan spirit. A bunch of Proud Boys were indicted for seditious conspiracy, which hardly seems fair […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 3, 2022
General Assembly Tries ‘Do-Over’ On Gun Bills. You know, after the Kop Kabal destroyed the assault weapons bill and buried the background check bill in committee. Someone even woke up John Carney, who had been characteristically AWOL on the issue, to make a statement. Or maybe they just wrote it and sent it out, figuring […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 2, 2022
Drink Coffee. Don’t Die. My kind of scientific study: That morning cup of coffee may be linked to a lower risk of dying, researchers from a study published Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine concluded. Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 29, 2022
Company That Made The Texas Killer’s Assault Weapon Marketed It To Kids. Hey, it’s just like vaping: The Texas shooting, which left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead and more than a dozen wounded, has put a national spotlight on Daniel Defense, a family-owned business in Georgia that has emerged as a trailblazer in an […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 28, 2022
Police Were Slow To Engage Because They ‘Could’ve Been Shot’: Olivarez said that, while the goal for law enforcement during active-shooter situations such as the one this week in Uvalde is to stop the killing and preserve life, officers did not initially know where Ramos was located when they were shot at. “At that point, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 27, 2022
Stealing This From Jason: The Rev And Karl Discuss WFP. The Delaware Working Families Party is utterly indispensable when it comes to promoting the progressive cause in Delaware. And, most importantly, helping to elect progressive candidates in Delaware. Listen to the podcast, then get involved. Chickenshit Cops Let Kids Die. They knew how dangerous the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 26, 2022
Which Senator Has Taken The Most NRA $$’s? Pretty much all the R’s have cashed in. Doubt that you can guess #1. When Rethugs talk about ‘politicizing’ the issue of gun massacres, they’ve already been totally politicized. As in ‘in their pockets’. Annnd, Right On Cue, NRA To Convene In Texas. Yes, Trump will appear […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Finally figured it out: There’s no such thing as a ‘digression’ in an Open Thread. That’s why it’s an Open Thread. Which reminds me, did anybody place a bet on ‘Early Voting’ in the Preakness b/c the horse was named ‘Early Voting’? Were I a wagerer, I would have. Would’ve cashed a winning ticket. Something […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 21, 2022
Mastriano Was MAGAt Before MAGAt Was Mainstream. Wrote of left-wing ‘Hitlerian putsch’ back in 2001: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 20, 2022
COVID Ain’t Over, Y’All. I think everybody should be a little more cautious. Two of my friends have caught it in the last week or so–one here, one on the west coast. They feel like shit. I’m gonna mask up a little more. And, of course, being naturally anti-social, stay away from people. Which is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Georgia County Booms, Dispelling ‘Great Replacement’ Theory. A century after whites drove prospering Black farmers out of the county, and kept them out: CUMMING, Ga. — In October 1912, after the raped and brutalized body of Mae Crow, a white 18-year-old, was laid to rest beside the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, the white men of […]
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