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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024
The Republican Party had another terrible day Tuesday. Their meritless impeachment of Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, failed when a few Republicans failed to vote for it, and their stand-alone bill to aid Israel while ignoring Ukraine also went down in flames. If this keeps up even the media might get the impression that […]
Song of the Day 2/6: Toby Keith, “Wacky Tobaccy”
Country star Toby Keith died of stomach cancer yesterday at just 62 years old. Keith reached stardom during the country boom of the early ’90s but achieved his greatest notoriety in the wake of 9/11, when his jingoistic songs in support of the Bush administration’s military response to the attack topped the country charts. Keith’s […]
FINALLY! Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim Of Absolute Immunity
Don’t know what took them so long. However: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Donald Trump can be put on trial for trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, rejecting Trump’s sweeping claim of presidential immunity and moving the case one step closer to a jury. “For the purpose of […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024
The cannibalistic self-destruction of the Republican Party continues apace, as old-line Senate conservatives like Mitch McConnell and James Lankford learn that their colleagues no longer answer to the Chamber of Commerce. Lankford has been one of the Senate’s hardest-line right-wingers since his election a decade ago, but negotiating with Democrats on a bipartisan immigration bill […]
Song of the Day 2/5: Killer Mike, “Scientists and Engineers”
There’s no bad publicity, but maybe there’s such a thing as being too on-brand. Atlanta rapper and activist Killer Mike won three Grammy Awards and got arrested after the ceremony, apparently for shoving a security guard who didn’t get out of his way. This is the song that won him two of the awards, for […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
The FBI didn’t bother opening a locked closet at Mar-a-Lago when it searched for stolen documents. Trump’s White House pharmacy handed out drugs like a pill mill. Stories that once would have caused days of outrage now rush by with hardly a nod, such is the pace of the Great Unraveling as Trump and the […]
Song of the Day 2/4: Wayne Kramer, “Jail Guitar Doors”
Wayne Kramer, who died last week at 75, is in the Rock Hall of Fame because he was the lead guitarist for the MC5, icons of the late ’60s counterculture and punk progenitors. But his most impressive legacy might be Jail Guitar Doors USA, the music program for inmates he founded with Billy Bragg. The […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Cause. Effect.: Cause: “The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Cause. Effect.: It is approaching four weeks since a federal appeals court considered Donald Trump’s audacious claim that he should enjoy absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his actions as president. Under ordinary circumstances, it can take months for appellate judges to produce a ruling. In the current case, this delay borders on unconscionable. It […]
Song of the Day 2/2: Talking Heads, “Road to Nowhere”
Coachella, the festival where bands go to reunite, this year will feature shows by Gwen Stefani’s old band No Doubt and Sublime, now fronted by the son of long-dead frontman Bradley Nowell. So SoCal’s 30-year-old ska-punk craze will be well represented. Rock might not be dead, but it’s sure getting old. One act organizers couldn’t […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 2, 2024
Sad: Oregon Senators Refuse To Work, Find Themselves Ineligible To Run For Reelection: The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to […]
Delaware Political Weekly: January 26-February 1, 2024
1. The Congressional Hauls. Sarah McBride, of course, leads the way. The figures: Sarah McBride Q4 Raise – $457k Total Raise – $1.23m On Hand – $850k Eugene Young Q4 Raise – $104k Total Raise – $287k On Hand – $199k Colleen Davis Q4 Raise – $41k Total Raise – $145k On Hand – $76k […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 1, 2024
NFL Broke Promise To Concussed Retired Players. Which is what happens when you have billionaires running the show: Finalized in 2015, the NFL concussion settlement resolved the most serious threat America’s most popular and lucrative sports league hasfaced. While the NFL admitted no wrongdoing, it promised to pay every former player who developed dementia or […]
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