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DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 24, 2025
Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural… W-wait. That can’t be, it must be an optical illusion. You know, like, what’s it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps? Perhaps this is the Meyer Inaugural? No, the Lady In Red was nowhere in sight there. Somebody’s gonna have to help me here, but isn’t that Bethany […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Post-Democratic America Day–Day Three. Federal civil rights cases quashed? Check. Science silenced? Check. Career National Security Staff sent home? Check. The real Trump Bible is Project 2025. Oh, well, at least we have some comic relief: When Oligarchs Clash: Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Post-Democratic America–Day Two: Turn Department Of Justice Into Department Of Retribution? Check: New acting leaders at the Justice Department moved quickly to shuffle at least 20 career officials, according to sources. Those include senior lawyers in the national security division, which in the past has been insulated from shifting political winds, and international affairs, which […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
BREAKING: Delaware’s Division Of Social Services Opens Warming Stations. From today through Friday to provide relief from the frigid temperatures: Due to the extreme cold temperatures some of our DSS locations will have “warming stations” available Tuesday-Friday 9:00 am-3:30 pm. This is similar to our cooling stations from the summer. The warming stations will be […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 20, 2025
OK, kids, we need to talk. At least, I need to talk. For my mental health, I simply can’t/won’t cover every shitty thing that Trump and his malefactors will do during the next four years. No, this won’t be a Trump-Free Zone, but four years of highlighting his misdeeds accomplished nothing here. So, if you’d […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 19, 2025
From Men To Boys–Those Billionaires And Their Hormones: Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast to lament the absence of “masculine energy” in the corporate world. “I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” Zuckerberg said during his nearly three-hour conversation with Rogan, adding, “Masculine […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 18, 2025
Sad. MAGAts And Donors Must Watch Inauguration–On A Jumbotron: Now, instead of hundreds of thousands of Trump voters gathering at the U.S. Capitol to watch their president begin his second term, they’ll instead be ushered to the Capital One Arena about a mile away where they can watch from … a jumbotron. We might as […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 17, 2025
NYC’s Top Criminal Heads To Mar-A-Lago, Seeking Pardon. Betcha he gets one: Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, his re-election chances in doubt and a federal indictment looming over him, flew to Florida on Thursday to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago just four days before the inauguration. The mayor, a Democrat, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Netanyahu Gonna Netanyahu. Holds up deal: Last-minute disputes appeared to hold up an expected Israeli cabinet vote on Thursday that could formally ratify a cease-fire deal with Hamas that has raised hopes that the devastating 15-month war could be coming to an end. By the afternoon, Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Rethugs Capitulate On Hegseth. You were expecting anything different?: The seriousness and breadth of the allegations against him — from sexual assault to excessive drinking to sheer lack of experience — demand the most searching and responsible of inquiries. Instead, the Hegseth nomination has largely produced reflexive party-line salutes. What unfolded during […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Trump Would Have Been Convicted–DOJ Report: If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday. For 137 pages, Smith detailed the incriminating […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 13, 2025
Bannon Vs. Musk. Can we root for two losers?: President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week, Bannon […]
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