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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state’s electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a not-close 13-point margin, the GOP started laying plans to overturn the results. Here’s a little secret: They’ve always been this way, but they only show […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 12, 2023
How Army Munitions Plant Arms Mass Shooters. With No Accountability: The initials stand for the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. Built during World War II, the federal site, in Independence, Mo., has made nearly all the rifle cartridges used by the U.S. military since it pulled out of Vietnam. In recent years, the factory has […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 11, 2023
Rethug Lawyer, Former NCC Councilman, Disbarred. Richard Abbott. Man, you just gotta read this opinion. An excerpt: We cannot help but lament that a seemingly mundane lawsuit would escalate into a nasty feud and, in turn, prompt Abbott, an experienced litigator, to ignore fundamental ethical constraints, putting his privilege to practice law at risk. The genesis of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 10, 2023
Government Shutdown Next Week? You’d forgotten all about that, hadn’t you? So had I. But it’s almost upon us: At odds with one another on spending, House Republicans abruptly scrapped their legislative work on Thursday and left Washington with little progress toward funding the government and no plan to avert a shutdown next week. Instead […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 9, 2023
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Actors’ Strike Over: The union is so far providing some details of the agreement, more of which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote. In a message to members on Wednesday night, the union said the pact is valued at over $1 billion and includes pay increases higher […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023
Trump took the stand in his New York civil trial for fraud yesterday and, as was widely predicted, he did not comport himself in a professional manner. Y’all can believe what you want to believe, but I believe a country that could elect this malicious fucknugget is probably beyond redemption. As always seems to happen, […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 6, 2023
Didja ever notice that the more fundamentalist religious people are, the more hung up they are about sex? Another day, another story about what a weird creepazoid new House speaker Mike Johnson is. Seems he has a deal where he and someone else monitor each other’s online activity, acting as the porn police. Johnson’s partner […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 5, 2023
Nothing To See Here, Folks. I’m not a big proponent of early polls, however: President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 4, 2023
How And Why Netanyahu Propped Up Hamas. Must-reading–if only to add a little context to the back-and-forth we’ve had here: For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 3, 2023
More Proof That Israel Doesn’t Give A Shit What The World Thinks: The Jabaliya neighborhood north of Gaza City was pummeled with Israeli airstrikes for a third consecutive day on Thursday, while doctors treating the victims described nightmarish scenes of operating without basic supplies or anesthesia. Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia, director of the pediatric ward […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023
Bleep Bobby Knight. This Guy Deserves To Be Remembered: Ady Barkan, a progressive activist and attorney who used his years-long struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to call for the protection and expansion of public health care coverage, died on Wednesday. He was 39. Over the course of a career cut tragically short by illness, Barkan […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023
Replacing soft-MAGA Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House with hard-MAGA Mike Johnson is somehow Bad News for Progressives among those who see everything as bad news for progressives, but I don’t think it’s that cut and dried. This guy is a true Christofascist freak – Amanda Marcotte writes about his Satanic panic over a […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 30, 2023
Israel’s assault on Gaza has entered the there’s-no-excuse-for-this stage. One indication of how bad it is: Desperate Gazans broke into UN aid centers and looted their already insufficient food supplies. Calls for a cease-fire continue to come from everywhere but the Biden administration. And it’s not just in Gaza. As Lucian Truscott IV notes, armed […]
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