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Song of the Day 3/22: Joey Ramone, “Maria Bartiromo”
Joey Ramone is rolling over in his grave. In lawsuits filed in Delaware and New York, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg says she was coached to lie in the Dominion defamation suit, and that she and Maria Bartiromo were being set up to take the fall. Fox execs, she claimed, ordered her to spy […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 22 2023
Tom Carper and Josh Gottheimer sold stocks totaling $1,460,000 on February 15th. Carper is a very very wealthy man and a very smart investor. When he makes these big moves, he probably isn’t using any inside information or anything. Why would you even think that? Even for the very pitiful Kevin McCarthy, this […]
Song of the Day 3/21: Classics IV, “Stormy”
Donald Trump might finally face some consequences today for his life of crime. He would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for that meddlesome porn star! The Classics IV had a string of three songs that hit the top 5 in 1968-69. “Stormy,” which reached No. 5, followed “Spooky” (No. 3) and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday March 21 2023
Nice prep work! Trump called in to ‘Pastor’s for Trump’ for a National Prayer on the eve of his possible indictment. When the host asked him to name a specific prayer that he would like to request, he suddenly had technical difficulties with his phone. (Audio) I wrote a couple of post yesterday that I […]
Tennessee to make drag performers register and wear pink triangles
Ok. No pink triangles yet. But this makes it seem inevitable. You thought the Tennessee drag ban was bad? wait til you see TN 841. This bill would force REGISTRATION of “male or female impersonators” by means of forcing them to register for permits. It does not define what an impersonator is. @ErinInTheMorn Note how […]
Delaware GOP asked “12 business leaders” ?
Delaware GOP asked “12 business leaders” for their thoughts on how the state can “support economic growth and improve the lives of workers” That’s great. Whatever. But just check out the failsons and professional grifters that pass for a “business leader” for the DEGOP: 1. “Delaware is an extraordinary place, but the state can do a better job […]
Song of the Day 3/20: Traffic, “Medicated Goo”
If you thought idiots dosing themselves with cattle dewormer would stop being a thing now that COVID is receding, you don’t know the persistence of idiots. You might have seen the news last week when an “ivermectin influencer” named Danny Lemoi died when his enlarged heart gave out. That might have killed him without the […]
Why White Christian Nationalists Are Doomed
It’s inevitable. Because Demographics Are Destiny: The white Christian portion of the U.S. adult population includes 14% who are white evangelical Protestant, 14% who are white mainline (non-evangelical) Protestant, 13% who are white Catholic, and small proportions of white Latter-Day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Orthodox Christians. The proportion of white evangelical Protestants in the population […]
DL Open Thread Monday March 20 2023
We have a very exciting week in store for you news nerds. A Trump perp walk? Or a David Koresh style apocalyptic last stand? Or, more likely, neither? Is It Tuesday or No? by Josh Marshall I have been assuming that Trump’s unhinged reference to his being “arrested” on Tuesday is based on what Alvin […]
Poll Results and This Week’s Poll – Who is worse?
61% of DL lurkers and commenters chose “Fuck No” when asked, “Do you think Carper or Coons will admit that the votes they lent to Trump’s vandalism of Dodd-Frank were dead wrong?” Of course that was the correct answer. The US Senate is the worst, and Coons and Carper are the worst of the worst. […]
Song of the Day 3/19: Joe Cocker, “With a Little Help From My Friends”
The sad story of Wrecking Crew drummer Jim Gordon came to an end last week with his death at 77 in a prison hospital, where he spent nearly 40 years after being convicted of second-degree murder for killing his mother in a schizophrenic fit. You might not know his name, but you’ve heard his work […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 19, 2023
Rethugs Sabotaged Jimmy Carter’s Reelection Bid–Cut Deal With Iran To Hold Prisoners Until After Reagan’s Election. We’d always suspected it, but now we have close-to-incontrovertible proof: It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What […]
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