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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025
History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She was too short to sit, so she stood, working the foot pedal to coax floral patterns from metallic thread and her own memory. Decades later, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH–Pretty much all the defense experts are gone because disagreeing with the Tangerine Tyrant is a firing offense: The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a senior defense official and a senator said on Friday, weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report that contradicted President Trump’s contention […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 22, 2025
Texas And Cali Battle To A Draw. Not just good, but necessary: California leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts, delivering an immediate counterpunch to the gerrymandered map that Republicans in Texas are passing at the request of President Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two redistricting bills […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 21, 2025
‘White America IS America’: Under Trump’s Fascist Dictatorship, That Is The New Truth: President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution this week of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not enough on the “brightness” of America. He has ordered Confederate statues honoring those who fought to preserve slavery to be restored and celebrated. […]
Our PAL Val Out At PAL – Might Be Taking PAL Down With Her
Shoutout to Spotlight Delaware for reporting this positively delicious story: The Police Athletic League of Delaware, a celebrated and taxpayer-funded nonprofit, is facing an upheaval after its prominent executive director – former House Speaker Valerie Longhurst – announced her resignation this month. It is not immediately clear why Longhurst is leaving her post, but she […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
‘Slavery Was Good’. Trump’s would-be un-Woke Smithsonian: “The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 19, 2025
ICE To Use ‘Moral Character’ In Determining Who To Deport. You know what that means, kids–politics: The Trump administration has signaled it will further scrutinize immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship by ordering authorities to double down on efforts to determine whether applicants have “good moral character,” according to a recent policy memo issued by U.S. Citizenship […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 18, 2025
The ICE-Stapo At Work: Federal agents detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a Northwest Washington coffee shop Saturday morning, an incident captured on video by numerous witnesses — including a Washington Post reporter — that showed the officers tackling him to the ground, holding him down and appearing to use a stun […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 17, 2025
“You Say ‘Potato’, I Say ‘Origin Story’”–A felicitous one-night stand between a tomato and the oft-maligned Etuberosum: And yet the domesticated potato and all of its wild relatives have long harbored a genetic mystery. “We didn’t know where the whole potato lineage came from,” says Sandy Knapp, a botanist at the Natural History Museum in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 16, 2025
A Collective Sigh Of Relief–No Title Changes At Alaska Armageddon: After meeting for nearly three hours, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin left Alaska without announcing any deal or any specific areas where they made progress. Though Mr. Putin said the leaders reached an agreement to “pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,” Mr. Trump made […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 15, 2025
Trump’s obsession with changing the subject from Everything Epstein to Anything But renders today’s meeting with Putin particularly fraught with danger. Anchorage Armageddon, if you will. Michael Wolff’s take: President Donald Trump is desperately seeking a ‘big thing’ to distract from Jeffrey Epstein–and is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to achieve it, his biographer Michael Wolff […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Trump Creates Emergency That Doesn’t Exist: The impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard troops on the ground and agents from numerous federal agencies roaming D.C. streets from the National Mall to busy corridors in Columbia Heights. At a checkpoint in Northwest Washington, local and federal officers, including Immigration […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Well. Sounds like I was better off at the concert than observing what appears to have been a political viper pit in the House last night. All I know is that Speaker Mimi had to be dragged kicking and screaming to deign to allow three amendments from Madinah Wilson-Anton to be added to the legislative […]
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