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MAGA Parents & Policies Creating Large Teacher Shortages Nationwide
The GOP has been at war against public education for years.
Who can blame teachers for saying “Fuck this shit.”
The teacher shortage in Florida is so acute, DeSantis plans to allow military veterans to teach in Florida provided these subs have 60 hours of college coursework and attained a 2.5 GPA.
‘Unsustainable and shambolic’ – US Airlines are the worst
I wonder if this is what all the free-market geniuses had in mind when Reagan signed off on the deregulation of the airline industry?
Song of the Day 8/6: The Undertones, “Teenage Kicks”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Iconic British DJ John Peel called it his favorite song ever. He cried when he first heard it. He had lyrics from it carved on his tombstone. One music site pronounced it the second-best indie song ever. Another named it the sixth-best power pop song of all time, allowing that […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 6, 2022
Indiana Governor First To Sign Abortion Ban Post-Roe. Time for a serious economic boycott of All Things Indiana: The law’s passage came just three days after voters in Kansas, another conservative Midwestern state, overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that would have stripped abortion rights protections from their State Constitution, a result seen nationally as a sign […]
“Don’t worry about the workers. If companies create huge profits…everyone WINS!”
The Clintonite wisdom embodied by the headline has held the Democratic Party in its thrall for going on 30 years now. In spite of the mountains of evidence that it is pure bullshit and should have been shit-canned years ago, it has the survival instincts of Rasputin.
And yet… all of my yelling on a shitty little blog in Delaware feels like it is beginning to pay off.
We are supposed to be the workers’ party. Democrats must be that party again. We must sharpen the difference between us—historically, America’s party of workers—and the party of big business.
Many are waking up to this reality.
As inflation continues to batter families’ bank accounts—and the president’s poll numbers—even free-traders of yesteryear are beginning to admit the problems of a labyrinthine supply chain stretched across the globe.
And for the first time in my memory, there’s real momentum to take action to fix it. Democrats just passed the kind of industrial policy we haven’t seen in many decades, to build out domestic supply chains of key inputs like semiconductors.
It will create the kind of jobs that too many communities have lost. And it sends a clear message to these Americans that we have not forgotten them.
None of this requires compromising on our values. A commitment to populist economics and fair trade isn’t just compatible with a commitment to social justice—the two naturally go together. One need only read Martin Luther King’s dozens of speeches to unions, and ponder what he was doing when he was killed, to remember the deep connection between workers’ rights and civil rights.
A relentless focus on populist economics wins out over Republicans’ manufactured culture war.
Highlands Bunker – Financial Tyrants Come to Southbridge (w/Haneef Salaam)
Not Breaking News: The Mayor doesn’t work for the people who live in the Southbridge neighborhood of Wilmington. He works for the rich white people that he hopes to move in there and the rich white developers that hope to make some bank from moving them in.
Southbridge Civic Association Vice President Haneef Salaam joins Rob in the bunker to talk about how a community-supported development process was blocked by the city of Wilmington, and what that might mean for their broader goals to remake the city in BPG’s image.
See you Monday at noon.
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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 5, 2022
The Kavanaugh FBI Investigation That Wasn’t. The FBI just forwarded all the tips to–the Trump White House: WHITEHOUSE: As you know, we are entering the fourth year of a frustrating saga […] regarding the Kavanaugh supplemental background investigation, and I’d like to get that matter wrapped up. First, is it true that after Kavanaugh-related tips […]
Eww
Attorney Mark Bankston, representing Sandy Hook parents that Alex Jones’ falsely accused of hoaxing the gun massacre that killed their children, told a Texas judge today that Alex Jones’ phone contains “intimate messages with Roger Stone.” The two men are often spotted together in their work as Trumpite provocateurs. – Via Boing Boing It […]
Song of the Day 8/5: Canned Heat, “Going Up the Country”
California hippie-rockers Canned Heat, founded by blues aficionados Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, had their biggest US hit with this tune. It became an anthem for the back-to-the-country movement that became popular during the chaotic year 1968. The song reached No. 11 at the end of the year, but it’s been associated with summer ever […]
Wilmington’s Black Community And The Delaware Way: Conclusion
Editor’s Note: Written By Mark Brunswick: This is my last post on Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s 1924 essay, ‘Delaware: A Jewel of Inconsistencies.’ There is an interesting nugget in the essay, “The Delaware Negro, by the way, has the reputation of being a, “bad actor” when he gets started. Whether this has anything to do with the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 4, 2022
Attention, Dem Officeholders: I don’t care if you just have to reach your fundraising goal–especially when you are either running unopposed or facing negligible opposition–especially when some of the money you’re raising gets passed through to Delaware Way types. Which reminds me, for those of you considering runs for higher office down the line, selling […]
Song of the Day 8/3: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, “This Diamond Ring”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It must have been weird being the son of Jerry Lewis. Did the comedian make funny faces and flop onto the floors around the house the way he did on stages with partner Dean Martin? His son, Gary, knew from early on he did not want to follow that path. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 3 2022
A bunch of election denying Trumpist Nutbags won last night in swing states. Joe Scarborough thinks it is great news for Democrats because they are so crazy. I’m not sure that math holds up.
What’s going on in the Sussex Recorder of Deeds GOP primary? Do you really have to go full on GunNut-Patriot-MAGA-shithead to fill this office?
Speaking of primary races, we are 41 days out and if you can help out directly, money is nice. If five people give $20.00 to DeShanna Neal today to help her defeat Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell, I’ll match that $100.
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