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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. […]
Song of the Day 8/20: The White Stripes, “There’s No Home for You Here”
Jack White won’t be getting any Kennedy Center gigs anytime soon, not with his attitude. He posted a photo of Trump with Zelenskyy in the redecorated Oval Office, along with this caption: Look at how disgusting [sic] trump has transformed the historic White House. It’s now a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler’s dressing […]
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 […]
Song of the Day 8/19: David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group, “This Is Not America”
How many times have you thought this since Trump took office? When this song appeared in the 1985 spy movie “The Falcon and the Snowman,” it was meant literally – Sean Penn, the Snowman, was imprisoned in Mexico. Now it applies anywhere in the USA. The odd pairing of Bowie with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny […]
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 […]
Song of the Day 8/18: The Blasters, “Border Radio”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona This is a post about Wolfman Jack, powerful radio signals and goat testicles. It’s also about exciting music U.S. fans could find only on Mexican radio stations, whose call letters all began with “X.” From the 1930s to the 1970s, Mexican radio stations could operate with far more wattage than […]
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 […]
Song of the Day 8/16: Desi Arnaz, “Babalu”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If some 1950s Donald Trump – Franco? Stalin? – had tried to deport Desi Arnaz back to Cuba, millions of “I Love Lucy” fans would have raised el infierno. As Ricky Ricardo, he was crucial to the show. He was the one who loved Lucy. Occasionally the wildly popular TV […]
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 […]
Song of the Day 8/15: Buck Owens, “Put a Quarter in the Jukebox”
For some reason the News Journal obituary for former governor and congressman Mike Castle doesn’t even mention, anywhere, what he will be remembered for outside Delaware: The 50 State Quarters® program. That fact is the lead of the AP’s obit – fittingly, because Castle was something of a hero to coin collectors. While in Congress, […]
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