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DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Ukraine Offensive: Blip Or New Reality?: As the advancing Ukrainian troops regained lost territory with shocking speed, liberating the town of Balakliya and raising their blue-and-yellow flag over the city of Izyum, jubilant Ukrainians and officials in Kyiv and Western capitals indulged in a daring hope: maybe the grinding, stalemated war was swinging their way. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 10, 2022
I Finally Cut The Cord! No, not cable, not yet, although that’s coming soon. I finally unsubscribed from the Team LBR e-mail list that, come to think of it, I’d never subscribed to in the first place. I figured that, as a District committee person, I should give the incessant begging the benefit of the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 9, 2022
Isn’t Charles The Guy Nobody Likes? Oh well, I’ll always have that commemorative bottle opener. You know the one that reads, ‘Drink Up, Chuck and Di’. Say it three times fast. Could Be A Blue Wave In Michigan. ‘Right To Abortion’ will be on the ballot: The Michigan Supreme Courton Thursday ordereda proposal enshrining the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Steve Bannon: A Case Study In Conservative Grift: The outsize role of grift in American conservatism is a story that goes back at least a half century. But Trump glommed on to those tendencies while also exacerbating them in his own ugly ways, and the Bannon saga is a particularly grotesque example of that. Bannon […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 4, 2022
News Of Lydia York’s Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated. She had a great day of campaigning at the Arden Fair. Three hours spent equally between the parking lot where the visitors get the buses and at the Fair proper campaigning with the indefatigable Colleen Davis. No sign of her convict opponent. It’s precisely where Lydia should […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 3, 2022
Happy Arden Fair Day! Sen. McConnell Is–Mitcher Lonely: Not even Peter Thiel will return his calls: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s grand vision for a Republican sweep in the midterm elections is not going according to plan. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that billionaire Peter Thiel, who funded the insurgent primary campaigns of J.D. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 2, 2022
Trump And MAGAts Threaten Democracy, Biden Says. Yes, they do. Or, at least, what passes for democracy: “We are still at our core a democracy — yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader, and the willingness to engage in political violence, is fatal to democracy,” Biden said. “There is no question […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Trump Tries His Hand At Three-Dimensional Chess, Loses At Checkers. His call for a special master to review documents led to this photo: Those Secret and Top Secret documents are but a few of those that a special master would have been expected to review. Trump tried to play rope-a-dope, but the dope got roped. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 28, 2022
Trump Judge Makes New Law To Give Trump ‘Special Master’ To Review Classified Documents. Pure insanity: And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent, and written wholly new law in the process, to give Donald Trump exactly what he wanted—a special master. Judge Aileen Cannon didn’t stop with saying she intends to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 26, 2022
Don’t Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do? ‘Some’ argue against using the term ‘progressive’: But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies a certain level of comfort with the idea that history is guided by a hidden hand and somehow moves in a way that makes each […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Student Debt Forgiveness: More Creeping Incrementalism From Biden. Did you expect anything–more?: The Biden administration has already approved nearly $32 billion in loan forgiveness to 1.6 million people through targeted actions for disabled borrowers and those defrauded by their colleges. But Biden had drawn the ire of activists and some student loan borrowers who were […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Could Pipelines Be Part Of The CO2 Capture Solution? It’s…complicated: Designed to increase the flow of some of the world’s dirtiest oil, the Dakota Access Pipeline became a poignant symbol of the United States’ failure to enact a serious, long-term national plan to stop adding heat-trapping gasses to the atmosphere. It galvanized a worldwide climate […]
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