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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Floridians Turning Against DeSantis? Signs point to yes: Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. […]
National AFL-CIO To Gerald Brady: “Resign”.
No, not from the General Assembly. From his position as the Executive Director of the Delaware AFL-CIO: Liz Shuler, national president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement on Friday that she was “sickened” by Brady’s “despicable remarks,” and called for his immediate resignation from the union chapter. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of […]
Conservative media has created the perfect economic and cultural environment for the spread of Covid19
Conservative media complex is a mechanism for tricking gullible retired people into buying gold coins, brain pills and reverse mortgages. It has created a docile flock of uncritical dummies who are easy pickings for cynical grifters hawking everything from armed insurrection to border wall segments, to horse dewormer.
Song of the Day 8/27: They Might Be Giants, “I Can’t Remember the Dream”
There aren’t all that many ’90s bands still making new music, and fewer still sound like they did back then. The Johns, Flansburgh and Linnell, have a new album — actually some sort of album/book project — coming out soon, and this is one of the tracks. It’s pop tunecraft that would fit right into […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks–And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly enjoyed this vignette: Landesman, the former political staffer, once worked on a campaign where he and other staff had to go door to door and […]
Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’
Punk the way it’s supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words: “THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your racist dad is a piece of shit and THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE.” They’re from, of all places, Durham, North Carolina. Seeing them at […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 26, 2021
RWNJ martyr Ashli Babbitt is the answer to the question, “How many of these kosplay kkkomandos have to die before the rest stand down?” and finally someone in the mainstream media has put a fine point on it: Her death was a turning point in the Jan. 6 Putsch. Babbitt crossed a line that had […]
Protest & Organize & Vote
Watching fanged zealots yell at school boards (and clap gleefully for their fellow yellers) I keep returning to something REV said in a podcast. I’m going to make a hash of it but it was something like – Getting protest energy and capitalizing on it by organizing and recruiting candidates and keeping everyone together to vote is the program.
I think of that political activism flywheel when I see those Karens lacerating their school boards because that program seems to be baked into the GOP DNA right now. Meanwhile party Democrats always seem to be wary of gathering any political energy.
Song of the Day 8/25: Charlie Watts Quintet, “What’s New”
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died yesterday at age 80, was the unlikeliest rock star ever. He was the opposite of every rock cliche, which is more amazing when you consider that his bandmates were the ones who set the template for every form of excess that became associated with the music. Watts was […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 25th 2021
Filed under “Trump’s Suckers” Rudy Giuliani recorded shaving himself at JFK Airport restaurant table The running commentary by Actor Michael Rapaport is a thing of beauty. Filed under “Duh” McConnell Blesses Centrist Dems’ Attempt To Blow Up Two-Track Infrastructure Plan WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 03: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-KY) (Kent Nishimura / Los […]
The Arden Concert Gild & El Somnambulo Present…
…the following great concerts. My musical dance card is officially full–at least through February. I’m really psyched about these shows that I’m bringing to the Gild Hall this year: An Evening With Sierra Hull. Friday, October 22. I’m co-producing this one with our Gildmaster Ron Ozer. She was a true child prodigy (not Ron), making […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 24th 2021
I was in a store yesterday and some asshole was yammering on about the “Nuremberg Code” and how it meant that he didn’t need to get vaccinated because the vaccine is experimental. The Nuremberg Code seems to be everywhere these days as MAGA shitheads have embraced it as the ultimate legal defense for their assholery.
An Alabama man who called himself the ‘vaccine police’ told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be ‘executed’ if they continued giving COVID-19 shots…
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