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DL Open Thread Wednesday August 24 2022
Only 20 days to go. Be sure to support your candidates with money and time. This is a very significant primary. But the movement is bigger than any single Election Day.
Elections are an important part of a program of sustained activism, not an end in themselves.
Song of the Day 8/23: Daryl Hall and John Oates, “Sara Smile”
The term blue-eyed soul, despite having been coined by influential Philadelphia DJ Georgie Woods, has become problematic for many people. Among them: A guy whose roots in both white and black music got him tagged as one of the genre’s prime purveyors. “I fucking hate it. It’s a racist term,” Daryl Hall told VH1 in […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 23 2022
I don’t think anyone here is laboring under the notion that DeSantis would be any better than Trump. But anyway…
Ron DeSantis Is Not Your New Trump, But He Is a…
Deb Heffernan Touts Polluters’ Endorsements To Claim She Is An…Environmentalist?
Not just endorsements, but a major award from the polluters. Very reminiscent of Carney getting that award from the Chamber and carrying their water for eight years. But, I digress. Let’s first hear from Deb in her own words: “I’m truly honored by the Chemical Industry Council Of Delaware for naming me their first Champion Of […]
Song of the Day 8/22: The Righteous Brothers, “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”
People might not realize it today, but radio was once nearly as segregated as schools and swimming pools were. White stations played white musicians for white audiences, black stations did the opposite, and little music crossed over between them. That’s why Pat Boone could sell millions of records making sanitized covers of R&B hits by […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 22 2022
22 Days to go. I’m in the 9th where there is no local primary so the only people on the ballot will be York and the convicted state auditor. Based on the vibe in the district I predict the following depressing outcome: Convicted State Auditor: 9 York: 8
That is hyperbole of course, but we’ll have fewer than 300 voters on primary day.
This person’s father is a real old school fascist.
The News Journal Won’t Tell You, but Bipartisan Ben duPont Backs Trump’s Boy Oz
Maybe I’m just lousy at navigating their archive, but I can’t find any evidence that the News Journal has ever reported on the close ties between Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and Delaware entrepreneur Ben duPont, son of the late Gov. Pete. In April, CNBC reported that duPont gave $70,000 to an Oz-for-Senate PAC. […]
Wilmington bank vice president who was hit by stray bullet has died
In a country as full of guns as this one, blood-soaked and callous as we’ve become – we tell ourselves lies in order to get by day by day and keep reality at bay. “That’s the bad part of town.” “What were they doing out at 3am?” These and other similar lies reveal the depth […]
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 […]
Song of the Day 8/21: Spanky and Our Gang, “Sunday Will Never Be the Same”
Elaine McFarlane had a helluva voice and a nickname based on her last name’s similarity to child star George McFarland, better known as Spanky, of the old “Our Gang” one-reelers from the 1930s. She fronted a mid-’60s sunshine-pop band that drew a lot of comparisons to the Mamas and the Papas, not just because of […]
A-hole on A-hole Violence
Without mentioning the fucker by name, McConnell said that bad Senate candidates (hand picked by Trump) would probably lose because it is hard for terrible trump-y assholes to win statewide. Trump shot back: “Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United […]
Bad News for Fox News & CNN – Can They Survive Cable “Cord Cutters” & Toxic Programing?
As Alby said in a prior thread…cut the cable and stop supporting these right wing propaganda outlets.
Fox News ad revenue is down because there are only so many “My Pillows” willing to associate with the toxic brand. Less ad revenue and fewer overall cable subscribers might turn out to be a perfect storm.
Multiple sets of analysis from Wall Street researchers show cable television as an industry in decline, with over 1.9 million subscribers cutting the cord in the second fiscal quarter of 2022, and over 5.4 million users leaving top pay-TV providers over the past year.
…Cord cutting is not a new phenomenon, but it is speeding up, and has been for years.
The trend poses a threat to the financial health of institutional media companies, especially Fox Corp., due to the high proportion of revenue that comes from affiliate fees.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 20, 2022
There’s No DeJoy In Gasville. Although the rogue head of the Post Office could still insist on a modicum of gas guzzlers: The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of zero-emission delivery trucks, plus $1.71 billion […]
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