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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Week That Trump Went Full Fascist. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say we’re now in a new Civil War. Troops attack blue states under false pretenses, Trump girds for his military parade. Opposition worries about ‘woke’ (Perhaps they’re in late-night session trying to come up with language decrying the waving of Mexican flags). […]
Song of the Day 6/10: Tom Lehrer, “Send the Marines”
Of course Donald Trump sent the marines to Los Angeles. What’s left of his mind was formed by the same John Wayne films Tom Lehrer cited when he wrote this back in 1965, after LBJ used them to intervene in the Dominican civil war. Of course, that was when we only used them in foreign […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Yep, Trump’s Deporting Folks Without Due Process. Courts be damned: As protests over workplace raids in California’s largest city continued Monday and the Pentagon announced it would be sending 700 Marines to backstop National Guard troops, immigration lawyers, advocates and relatives were scrambling to find information about those detained. Mexico’s foreign minister said four immigrants […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
“Now the race is on, and here comes pride down the backstretch, heartache is movin’ to the inside.” And the winner loses all? I report, you decide. June in Dover is a race run in fits and starts–some of the fits thrown by legislators. Some of the starts false. Broken up by interminable caucuses (cauci?). […]
Song of the Day 6/9: Garland Jeffreys, “Wild in the Streets”
Thanks to the Trump administration’s desire to declare marshal martial law and its constant need to change the subject from its latest fuck-up, the excitable homunculi in charge are treating localized vandalism in Los Angeles as if it were the Watts Riots. We should have learned from protests in Portland a few years back that […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 9, 2025
“ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACEMASKS NOW!”. Trump on Truth Social. Isn’t that what the protestors are calling for as well? The Needless Confrontation Trump Wanted, Perhaps Needed: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the federal action “purposefully inflammatory” and said that it would “only escalate tensions.” The governor also noted this deployment of soldiers is “not […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 8, 2025
Artist Of The Week: Sebastiao Salgado. Never have I seen such incredible photography, imbued with such deep humanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QgUFh27ryU A profound artist who led a meaningful life. Please watch. You’ll be blown away. You’re A Genius. So what?: Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In […]
Song of the Day 6/7: Rilo Kiley, “Breakin’ Up”
The media is intent on milking this Trump-Musk feud for all it’s worth – schadenfreude might bring in as many clicks as rage does, or at least they hope so. Trump helpfully called reporters, even ones he doesn’t like, to dunk on Elon. Which they dutifully reported. Rilo Kiley released this song on their 2007 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned To The US. Putting the lie to this. And this. Let me just say this–On a day when convicted Proud Boys file suit against the Department Of Justice, Garcia should get the finest attorneys who haven’t been co-opted by Trump to file the Biggest, Most Beautiful, lawsuit against all of these […]
Song of the Day 6/6: Neil Sedaka, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
I’m not convinced it’s permanent, but the Trump-Musk breakup looks real – it’s apparently costing both of them money, and I can’t imagine they’d take kayfabe that far. I can imagine it getting uglier, though, given Trump’s uncharacteristic restraint so far and Musk’s invocation of the Epstein Files. Everyone knows breaking up is hard to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 6, 2025
We start, of course, with a Book Report. With a shout-out to Jill, who hated Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’. Jill recommended ‘Long Bright River’ by Liz Moore. So, I checked it out of the library, and read it. Jill was spot-on. The protagonist is a policewoman who patrols the drug-riddled streets of Kensington. There’s a killer who is murdering […]
Song of the Day 6/5: Heart, “Barracuda”
Lots of rock musicians have careers that read like soap operas, but few bands have had more bad luck than Heart. Ann and Nancy Wilson had to overcome industry misogyny, record company lawsuits and broken love affairs – and that was just in Heart’s first few years together in the ’70s. The band has broken […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Judge James E. Boasberg Is My New Hero: A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to take steps toward giving nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law the due process that they had been denied. In a sweeping and at […]
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