Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 23, 2021
Gerald Brady Goes National. Congrats to Speaker Pete, Our PAL Val, and Delaware Democratic Chair Betsy Maron for making Delaware even more of a laughingstock than usual. Hey, I’ve got it: Gerald can switch parties and immediately challenge Lauren Witzke to be the xenophobes’ champeen. Better yet, he can run on a ticket w/Witzke. He […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 17, 2021
Partisan Judge Declares DACA Unlawful. That’s not just my characterization: There are, unfortunately, many appointed and elected officials across the U.S. who have made a career out of enacting anti-immigrant policy. But as far as activist federal judges go, perhaps none stand out like Judge Andrew Hanen of the United States District Court for the […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, July 15, 2021
Nobody wants to hear it, but the pandemic is not over. Global cases rose last week for the first time in 10 weeks. We’re shaping up to have a truly nasty outbreak in the fall in Dumbfuckistan. Democrats — why can’t they do the right thing? Latest example: SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, who’s under […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, July 11, 2021
Before 2020, you’d have to look hard to find a bigger critic of Joe Biden than me. Listing all his flaws would take more time than you have, so I won’t, and you know them all anyway. But the one thing I never doubted he possessed was a keener-than-average sense of empathy — when my […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 10, 2021
Biden Fires Anti-Union Head Of The Social Security Administration. The irony being, of course, that it was Trump who went to the Supreme Court–and won–when he ousted the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Rethugs are now crying foul for Biden removing this guy: Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the chairman of the Senate […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 9, 2021
Wanna Avoid Taxes? Buy Yourself A Sports Team. Here’s how: (LA Clippers’ owner Steve) Ballmer pays such a low rate, in part, because of a provision of the U.S. tax code. When someone buys a business, they’re often able to deduct almost the entire sale price against their income during the ensuing years. That allows […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, July 4, 2021
Today is worthy of celebration — it’s been a full week since Chris Coons last sold out his constituents. It’s pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the Jan. 6 insurrection was a two-pronged attack — 90% or so delusional goobers with lots more time and money than common sense, providing cover for a core […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 3, 2021
Southern Pastors Give Up On Vaccinating The Flock. Mostly in white rural congregations: Polls have consistently shown that white evangelicals are among the groups most hardened against vaccination. The most recent, a June survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 22 percent of white evangelicals said they would “definitely not” get the vaccine, a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 2, 2021
Supreme Court: You Don’t Have The Right To Vote. Justice Alito finally gets his crane shot. A political decision masquerading as a constitutional one. Elena Kagan’s blistering dissent. All 6 Rethugs supported voter suppression laws in Arizona. That’s why they’re on the Court. Arizona–isn’t there a Senator there who….? 15 Felony Counts For Weisselberg. 10 […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, July 1, 2021
The Biden presidency has been a crisis for the media — without a daily Fresh New Hell, ratings and readership are in the tank. Everybody’s web traffic is down, but it’s been especially bad for the most partisan sites on both the left and right. Remember this when you read of this week’s newest threat […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021
It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness, just like most right-wing boogeymen. While some LGBTQ activists are disappointed that the ruling didn’t improve much else where rights are concerned, the just-completed census […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 25, 2021
A Message To You Rudy: You can’t practice law in New York State: In its 33-page decision, the court said that Mr. Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. “The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 18, 2021
We (Almost) Have A Progressive General Assembly! Passage of the $15 minimum wage bill is a BFD. The Senate has become a progressive legislative body run by progressive leaders. There hasn’t been a single piece of progressive legislation that has been deep-sixed there, and a whole lot of progressive initiatives have started there. The combination […]
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