Song of the Day 8/26: Tavares, “More Than a Woman”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Now that “Saturday Night Fever” (maybe) and the Bee Gees (probably) have been rehabilitated by the cool kids, think back to the soundtrack. Did you…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Dog-Killer Persecutes Kilmar Abrego Garcia: This wouldn't be possible in anything other than a banana republic: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive…
Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?
Looks like all those Republican accusations about Biden's age and mental befuddlement were, as usual, confessions. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been in a war of words with Donald Trump.…
Do You Want An Audit Of Tyler Technologies?
To me the answer is an obvious YES. Rep. Eric Morrison just shared the following: Three NCC councilpersons have introduced a resolution calling for an audit of Tyler Technologies, how the…
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 25, 2025
So. You Think A Second Civil War Hasn't Started Yet? Troops coming to a city near you, fortified with soldiers from the Confederacy: President Trump has escalated his threat to…
Song of the Day 8/25: The Mary Wallopers, “Frost Is All Over”
The Israel-Gaza War started with a massacre at a music festival, and nearly two years later the music festival business is still feeling the effects. Israel's brutal response to the…
Song of the Day 8/24: John Schneider, “Cracker Barrel”
Hayseed-Americans – formerly hicks, rubes, shit-kickers, stump-jumpers and chawbacons, all now subsets of MAGA – are in a dither over a corporate logo change. The restaurant/retail chain Cracker Barrel has…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025
History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH--Pretty much all the defense experts are gone because disagreeing with the Tangerine Tyrant is a firing offense: The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense…
Song of the Day 8/22: Laura Nyro, “Stoned Soul Picnic”
Summer's waning fast, and you won't get many days as perfect as today for a picnic. Delawareans can legally make it a stoned one, and Laura Nyro can provide the…
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 22, 2025
Texas And Cali Battle To A Draw. Not just good, but necessary: California leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts, delivering an…
Song of the Day 8/21: Foghat, “Fool for the City”
Guest post by Gary Mullinax Foghat is a boogie-rock band that thrilled headbangers in the ‘70s with songs like “Fool for the City” and “Slow Ride.” Foghat is not the…
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”…