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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 8, 2021
The initial Joint Finance Committee hearings are over (budget mark-up will come later), so the General Assembly will be working up until an Easter break. The House will not officially reconvene until Thursday. However, House committees will meet both today and tomorrow. The Senate will convene today. Perhaps the biggest news is the imminent introduction […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Theory of Holy Moderation and Exalted Centrism ™ to be tested
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Monsanto) has no interest in having his ass kicked by whoever the Trump cult runs against him in 2022’s primary. Under the theory of Holy Moderation and Exalted Centrism ™ Blunt’s Missouri seat should go to a Democrat, when voters find the GOP has nominated a “radical” who is “out of step” with the common sense moderation of Show Me State voters. Right? Right, Chris Coons? Right? Dems have a real shot here, right?
Anybody have national polling numbers for Ted Cruz?
Americas oldest college debate society votes to strip Ted Cruz of a prestigious Princeton honor for public service.
I’m loving this.
In a Monday letter to Trump attorney Alex Cannon, RNC chief counsel J. Justin Riemer said the committee “has every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech” and said “it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.”
This time Russia doesn’t have an operative in the White House.
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Monday it is taking steps to combat Russian disinformation aimed at undermining confidence in the COVID-19 …
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Nevada Corporate Dems have a hissy fit.
Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat
Join Today’s Press Conference On Behalf Of A $15 Delaware Minimum Wage
Here’s the information: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2021 CONTACT: Jonathan Williams, UFCW Local 27, jonathanclarkewilliams@gmail.com Coalition of Delaware WFP, Labor, and Business Groups Hosting Press Conference to Support $15 Minimum Wage DOVER, DE (March 8, 2021) – A coalition of labor and business groups will hold a virtual press […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 8, 2021
Coons called out for his “despicable and unacceptable” vote. Meanwhile, Tio Bernie says, “if any senator believes this is the last time they will cast a vote on whether or not to give a raise to 32 million Americans, they are sorely mistaken.” So Coons will have another shot to vote like the big follower of Jesus Christ he claims to be. Via Common Dreams: Shameful-Millionaire Senators Vote Against Popular Minimum Wage
Derek Chauvin, Murder of George Floyd, goes on trial this week At trial, prosecutors will argue Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for roughly nine minutes—including nearly three minutes in which Floyd was unresponsive.
“Please, please, please, I can’t breathe. Please, man,” Floyd said in the viral body-camera footage, “I’m about to die.”
Chauvin’s defense team will argue that Floyd was asking for it (by being African American).
Happy National Women’s Day!
Song of the Day 3/7: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, “The Money Song”
Man, all this agitation for raising the minimum wage to a level a person could live has been going on forever, hasn’t it? Your grandpa probably busted a gut listening to the hot young comedy duo when they cut this routine on a Capitol Records 78 — on shellac — in 1948, voicing age-old complaints […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, March 7, 2021
Interesting article at Daily Kos examining the congressional districts with the biggest voting shifts in the presidential race from 2016 to 2020. The Republicans made big Latino-fueled gains in south Florida and south Texas, while Democrats picked up strength in some surprising areas — north Texas, nearly all of Colorado and, most surprising to me, […]
“Big Tech” is threatening to “cancel” DL’s Facebook Page
Some bot construed this anti-nazi post as a pro-nazi post.
Senate Passes COVID Relief Package
50-49. Republican Senator Sullivan from Alaska missed the vote for a family emergency: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/stimulus-update-us-relief-bill-03-06-21/index.html The House must vote on the Senate version before President Biden can sign it. They will do so on Tuesday.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 6, 2021
Manchin Has Mini-Snit, Holds Covid Relief Hostage For Nine Hours. He may not be President, but he sure exercises power–against Democratic constituencies. Biden Dumps Another Trump Appointee. Good: The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to […]
What do Sinema, King, Manchin, Shaheen, Coons, Hassan, Carper, Kelly, Tester have in common?
Well…Sinema, King, Manchin, Shaheen, Hassan, Kelly & Tester are all Senators representing Red/Purple states.
Coons and Carper are just dicks.
Song of the Day 3/5: Suzanne Vega, “When Heroes Go Down”
The story, most recently, of Andrew Cuomo, lionized during the early days of the pandemic as the anti-Trump. From Suzanne Vega’s 1992 LP 99.9F°. When heroes go down They go down fast So don’t expect any time to Equivocate the past When heroes go down They land in flame So don’t expect any slow and […]
Highlands Bunker E117 – Radical Reimagination
REV talks with some folks who have an imaginary friend named Jesus…
is what I would say if he was speaking with white evangelicals. [White American Christianity is bullshit.]
As he is speaking with Central Delaware NAACP President Fleur McKendall and Network Delaware organizer Tyeisha Grier on the role of religion and solidarity in organizing I guess I should reign in the scoffing disrespect. As usual, Delaware’s foremost public intellectual gets to the crux.
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