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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Hey, kids, wanna get your bill placed first on the House Agenda? Simple. Just get El Somnambulo (that’s me!) to predict that Our PAL Val will bury it in committee. Which is not to say that the bill didn’t deserve to be buried. We’re talking HB 40 (Briggs King), which: creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The […]
Was Chris Coons knowingly working with Moscow to destabilize American banking?
As SVB failure spreads to Credit Suisse, it is worth looking at what motivated Coons to help Trump (and by extension Putin) by gutting Dodd-Frank in order to destabilize American banking. What we know: – By 2018 it was widely reported and well known that Trump was working as an unregistered agent the Putin’s government […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 16, 2023
How AI Algorithms Routinely Reject Medicare Advantage Claims: Just something else that the intellectually-incurious John Carney will never read: The STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is increasingly driving denials by health insurance companies for medical claims in Medicare Advantage. As health insurance companies expand their use of algorithms to predict a patient’s health care journey […]
Song of the Day 3/16: Randy Rainbow, “Life’s a Fucking Fantasy for Santos”
Randy Rainbow’s latest release takes on the Lyin’ King, George Santos, with a rare mash-up of two different tunes, “Life’s a Jolly Holliday With Mary” from “Mary Poppins” and the Seekers’ “Georgey Girl.” In case you haven’t been following the saga of Pinocchio of the House, a former roommate who’s been convicted of running a […]
The headline… *chef’s kiss*
It even has an M. Night Shyamalan twist at the very end.
Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC
The primary pro-Trump super PAC is filing a complaint with the Florida Ethics Commission over what it says is the governor’s “shadow presidential campaign.”
“The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation.”
This, from Rubber Hose , feels like a weirdly under-reported part of the Russia story. The 2nd biggest nuclear arsenal is sitting on a demographic time bomb It’s weird how enamored conservatives are with Putin’s Russia, because just about every way I try to look at the country, it just looks doomed: A demographic tragedy is […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 15, 2023
If this post isn’t the worth the price of a non-subscription, I don’t know what is. So much stuff that I’m gonna have to up the Snark Factor to keep it interesting. Betcha I can do it. I’ve been told that there’s no such thing as a stupid question (not true, BTW), but I must […]
Song of the Day 3/15: Street Dogs, “Unions and the Law”
Michigan is on the verge of becoming the first state in 60 years to roll back vulture capitalism’s odious “Right to Work” law, which allows union members to not pay their union dues. Each house of the legislature has passed a version of the bill. Once the two bills are reconciled it will go to […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 15 2023
This ides of March, beware the woke. Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define ‘Woke’ ‘TAKE YOUR TIME’ Despite her new book being all about how the “woke” left is destroying and indoctrinating America’s youth, Bethany Mandel choked when she was asked what that word actually means. Delaware’s racist incels being racist incels. […]
Why in the world is the GOP so PRO-Putin?
I get being anti-war. I get being blackmailed by Putin would make Trump pliable. But being adamantly pro-putin to the point of being anti-Ukraine, seems like a strange space for the GOP to occupy. So how did Republicans become the Party of Putin? LGM takes a look. DeSantis’s strategy continues to be to […]
Song of the Day 3/14: Toad the Wet Sprocket, “Fall Down”
The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank shouldn’t surprise anyone. The bank, like the valley, was built on silicon chips, and silicon chips are made of sand. Castles made of sand always fall down. “Fall Down” was among the string of hits Toad the Wet Sprocket released in the mid-’90s. This one, from their LP […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Stop the presses! Stephanie Bolden wants EVERYONE to know that she would have voted for HB 2 had she shown up for session on Thursday, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to besmirch her pristine reputation. Which begs the question–will she vote to override Carney’s veto of the bill? Will she show up? BTW, […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday March 14 2023
Uber, Lyft Score Victory as California Court Affirms Right to Treat Drivers as Contractors
. Also, another day, another Youth Pastor.
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