Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Who said it?: “…“the Black wogs and coons and Arabs and f—ing Jamaicans don’t belong here.” Answer at bottom of column. Manchin Is A Republican. Period. Sabotaging The Democratic Senate Caucus from within. Might as well admit it and move on. He will. Phil Gramm redux: “We spend so much time being polite in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 11, 2021
“Should We Burn The Books–Or Just Ban Them?“. Not isolated. Organized efforts. Democracy, or what passes for it, dies in darkness: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) had attacked McAuliffe for, as governor, vetoing a bill to allow parents to opt their children out of reading assignments they deem to be explicit. The impetus was a famous […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 7, 2021
How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses: ‘The Car Was The Weapon’: In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed people dead over the last five years, those words were routinely used to explain why police officers had fired at drivers. In about 250 of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 5, 2021
Big Pharma Breaks Lobbying Spending Records To Fight Drug Pricing Initiatives. They’ve already got Carper and Coons in their pockets–although maybe they can rustle up some spare change to further fatten their campaign coffers. Remember, kids, not ‘centrists’, corporatocrats. Groundhog Day Headline Du Jour: ‘House Democrats Near Vote On Newly-Retooled $1.75 Trillion Spending Plan’. Musical […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Opinion: D’s Have To Confront Rethugs’ Relentlessly Racist Dog-Whistles. It’s been the R strategy since Nixon, and it works when D’s ignore it: Crucially, the Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, was able to use racially coded attacks to motivate sky-high white turnout without paying a penalty among minority voters. This appears to solve the problem bedeviling […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 31, 2021
How/Why Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deadly Confrontations. Short take–Because they’re trained that way. And because they can get away with it: The deaths are among a series of seemingly avoidable killings across the United States. Over the past five years, a New York Times investigation found, police officers have killed more than 400 drivers […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 30, 2021
Final Call For The Claudettes. Tonight. Prices are incredibly affordable: $20 for the general public. Tickets available at the box office. Here’s how Downbeat described them: “The Claudettes hit listeners upside the head with a mash-up of Otis Spann blues, Albert Ammons boogie-woogie, Ray Charles soul and “Fess” Longhair New Orleans R&B.” My Hallowe’en costume?: […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 29, 2021
Biden’s Agenda: How Not To Negotiate. Cut it in half, then beg: “The House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,” Mr. Biden told the lawmakers during the hourlong session, according to a person who was at the meeting. Mr. Biden and his aides gambled on […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Silly Russians, Don’t You Know The NRA Is Bankrupt? Russian hackers allegedly post NRA stuff on dark web: The gang behind the attack—which calls itself “Grief”—recently began sharing images of the reputed files to a site on the dark web. It is unclear just how much data is supposed to have been stolen, though members […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 17, 2021
“Their (Black Christians) voices contradicted the proposition that America is the story of the gradual expansion of freedom and opportunity to a wider and wider group of people,. The moral claim laid upon us by their ancestors’ insistent voices is continual awareness that racial inequity was interwoven into the fabric of our society from the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Kathy McGuiness Has No Shame. Of course, that’s a ‘dog bites man’ headline. But this isn’t: Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness has asked a local judge to make taxpayers foot the bill for her legal defense as she fights criminal corruption charges. A seven-page motion filed by her private attorney, Steve Wood, on Thursday cites a Delaware […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 15, 2021
BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Running For Reelection. I wrote a speculative piece, turns out it was fiction. At least in part: I am running for re-election, to continue to serve the residents of the 23rd RD https://secure.actblue.com/donate/committee-to-elect-paul-baumbach-1 I do not know Rep Ramone’s plans. That National Ecumenical And Non-Partisan Prayer Breakfast? Not so non-partisan or […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, October 10, 2021
Sit down for this one: Donald Trump lied about how much money his DC hotel brought in. It ran in the red, of course — this is a guy who figured out how to lose money running casinos — and lost $70 million, despite L’il Donnie Two Scoops accepting $3.7 million from foreign governments. This […]
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