Open Thread
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Rabbi Joins Proud Boys, Hands Out ‘Religious Exemptions’ From Covid Vaccinations. ‘Backwards reeled the mind’. Who can quote the original sentence, and who wrote it? No, it wasn’t Sondheim. WH: Trump Docs Can Go To Congress. No doubt Trump will appeal. Sometimes, you (meaning me) have to wonder how Trump can afford to pay all […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 8, 2021
Two From The Times: Optimist. Pessimist. Would it surprise you to learn that Krugman is (sorta) the optimist? Yeah, me too. The Ezra Klein piece is must-reading, and it’s not (all) gloom-and-doom. Elon Musk Heads To Anti-Choice Country. Here’s a prediction worthy of being cut-and-saved: “We’re going to create an ecological paradise here because we’re […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, October 7, 2021
If you’re paying close attention to the latest Debt Limit Ceiling Crisis, well, I pity you — you’re an all-day sucker. Last I checked Republicans were offering to move the standoff to December, but frankly, I don’t give a flying fuck. It will happen or it won’t, and nothing you or I do will make […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Can’t We Just Trade Manchin For Murkowski? Not saying she’d be a ‘better’ D, but I doubt she’d revel in the role of gumming up the works like that fucking hillbilly. The ‘Least Bad’ Ways To Cool The Planet? Carbon Removal. Social Geoengineering. Or Both. Doesn’t fill me with confidence. But well worth reading: To […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 1, 2021
Killings By Police In America Undercounted By More Than Half. According to the British medical journal Lancet: Researchers compared information from a federal database known as the National Vital Statistics System, which collects death certificates, with recent data from three organizations that track police killings through news reports and public records requests. When extrapolating and […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
Are the media invested in ending American democracy? Sure seems that way to a lot of people, including Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who’s hopping mad that the Eastman memo, laying out how Mike Pence could have thrown the election to Trump on Jan. 6, has gotten almost no attention from the mainstream media. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 25, 2021
Rethug Gerrymanders All The Rage These Days. Not to mention, conservative courts ready to step in when the legislators won’t. Also, more proof that these so-called ‘non-partisan’ commissions are nothing more than fig leafs. Karen Bass To Run For Mayor Of Los Angeles. A great development. Progressive member of Congress, beloved by the Black community […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 24, 2021
Cyber Ninja Arizona Audit Shows Biden Got More Votes, Trump Less Votes Than Previously Recorded. Biden with 99 more votes, Trump with 261 fewer votes. Which is not stopping Trump and Texas Rethug Governor Greg Abbott from, well: Eight and a half hours after former President Donald J. Trump made a public demand for Gov. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
The conservative grift seems like such an easy dodge: Mouth a few idiotic slogans you didn’t even have to think up yourself, rake in the bucks (just ask Lauren Witzke). But there’s apparently some kind of secret code involved that prevents it from working for just anyone. For example, the crank yanker who organized a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 18, 2021
Rethugs Play Russian Roulette With Debt Ceiling. Because they can, and because everything they do is purely and solely for political gain: McConnell has declared that Senate Republicans will not vote to increase the Treasury’s authority to continue borrowing, which is the same as voting to allow a default. As he has done before, McConnell […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 17, 2021
Delaware’s AG Race: Two MAGAts To Vie For 38% Of The Vote. Although the WDEL story doesn’t mention it (c’mon, Journalism 101), Murray will run against one Chuck Welch in the Rethug Primary. (For you completists, incumbent AG Kathleen Jennings is expected to run for reelection.) Looks like it’ll be a contest as to who […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021
Thank whatever you believe in that the 20th anniversary of 9/11 passed with as little flag-waving horseshit as it did, but Jesus Christ on a tandem bike, can we stop mourning the loss of national unity? You know what unites people? Grief. It wasn’t patriotism, or feeling for our fellow Americans. It was heartsick sadness. […]
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