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…
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…
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…
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.…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 29, 2023
The Man Who Saved Democracy Bows Out Of Presidential Race. Largely because he saved democracy. The story, of course, is more complicated: His decision to align himself with Mr. Trump…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 28, 2023
Lest You Thought That Dean Phillips Was A Legit Democratic Challenger To Biden...: Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips received financial support in his run for Congress from Harlan Crow – the same…
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 27, 2023
Justice Thomas' $267 K Motor Home. Not a single dollar of principal was ever repaid to the wealthy lender: The US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas failed to repay much…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 26, 2023
They Still Haven't Found The Mass Shooter? No mask. Apparently no body armor. Figured when I went to sleep that he wasn't long for this world. Figured wrong. Reportedly a…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023
Another day, another failed attempt to elect a Speaker of the House. Contestant No. 3 lasted just four hours, not even long enough to be doxxed by MAGA World, so…
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023
Handicapping the Speaker Stakes? Now there are only eight entrants as Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has scratched himself from the race. Meuser, who represents a big slice of the…
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023
Anyone who's raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 22,2023
Pharoah And DeSantis: Separated At Birth? What do they have in common?--plagues. Hurricanes, floods, seaweed encrusted beaches, pythons who like to feast on elderly Palm Beach matrons, collapsing buildings, epidemics.…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 21, 2023
FINALLY, Aid Trucks Make Their Way Into Gaza. Not nearly enough, though...: A convoy of 20 trucks carrying aid moved through the Rafah border crossing into Gaza from Egypt on…