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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Wisconsin Rethugs Seek To Destroy Democracy To Save Their Legislative Super-Majorities. Here’s the even sneakier part: The idea is for the House to impeach her, which would immediately place her in judicial limbo, but for the Senate not to proceed with a trial: If the Assembly impeaches her, Protasiewicz would be barred from any duties […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023
RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,” Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center and Richardson’s longtime collaborator on hostage cases, said in a statement Saturday. “The world has lost a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Dies–Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that, in a coconut shell, was the problem. Jimmy Buffett is not really Jimmy Buffett anymore. He hasn’t been for a while. Jimmy Buffett — the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023
Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment, pot businesses could see their bottom line boosted and a path toward national legalization could be charted, experts said Thursday. The Department of Health and […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Submitted Without Comment… …From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden’s the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars: The message Michael Farris had come to deliver was a simple one: The time to act was now. For decades, Farris — a conservative Christian […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 27, 2023
Don’t Read This At The Airport: 5000 Pilots Hiding Major Medical Issues?: Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they were receiving benefits for mental health disorders and other serious conditions that could make them unfit to fly, documents and interviews show. The pilots under […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 26,2023
Republican Moms, Black Legislators, Join Forces In Tennessee. Against gun violence: A group of mothers from The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, reached across the aisle to show their support and appreciation for the Democratic representatives fighting for real common-sense gun safety legislation on Thursday. The moment was captured on video, provided by @TheTNHoller. It […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 25, 2023
That. Mug. Shot. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office) At first, I was fixated by the Death Stare, figuring that Trump had rehearsed this ad nauseum in order to look as resolute as Winston Churchill in that famous WW II photo. Then, inevitably, my eyes became riveted on his ‘dome-icile’, and what does, or doesn’t, reside therein. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Didn’t watch the debate. Didn’t watch the commentary after the debate. That ‘climate change is a hoax’ would seem to be disqualifying, though. Even to Rethugs. Pretty sure that farmers don’t think it’s a hoax. However, pretty sure ‘the media’ needs Vivek, so we’re gonna get an endless hype train–until it’s time to toss him […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 20, 2023
Gretchen Whitmer Scours Red States For Workers And Employers. My preferred choice for President: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been promoting her state as a place that respects freedom ― as in, the ability to control what happens to your body, who you love, or how you identify yourself. Now Whitmer is taking that […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 19, 2023
Rudy (Desperately) Needs Trump’s Dollars. Trump Ain’t Paying Up. Sad: Rudolph W. Giuliani is running out of money and looking to collect from a longtime client who has yet to pay: former President Donald J. Trump. To recover the millions of dollars he believes he is owed for his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023
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We’se Proud Of Our Guy: Rory Ehrlich, 6, of West Pottsgrove, won the kid’s division of the USA Mullet Championships in August 2023, beating out more the 900 children for the title. Charles Fox / Staff Photographer / Philadelphia Inquirer Trump’s Lawyers Request Brief Trial Pause–Until 2026. Because he’s such a crook and they have […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 17, 2023
When You’ve Lost The Cato Institute…: We’re talking yet another Koch Bros enterprise dedicated to their version of ‘libertarianism’, aka unfettered freedom for oligarchs: Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to predict how the various prosecutions of Donald Trump are likely to turn out. But no longer. I believe yesterday’s indictment in Georgia sealed Trump’s fate, […]
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