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Shorter Trump: My accusers are black
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is about to drop more than a dozen indictments dealing with Trump’s attempts overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump’s defense? Fani Willis is a black woman who associates with known black people. Which should actually be very convincing argument for many Republicans. DURING A TUESDAY campaign […]
Song of the Day 8/9: Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”
The Alabama dockside brawl was more like a pro rasslin’ melee or a hockey donnybrook than a chopsocky flick, but neither the WWE nor the NHL have inspired a No. 1 hit like “Kung Fu Fighting.” No song in history made more out of less. Jamaican singer Carl Douglas was in the studio to record […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday Aug 9 2023
Shakespeare deemed too raunchy for Florida Schools. Just wait until someone from the Start Board of Ed gets around to reading the Bible Hillsborough County in Florida has informed educators they are only allowed to teach specific excerpts of William Shakespeare’s works due to new state laws restricting certain discussions in class. The county school […]
Judge Aileen Cannon’s “out-of-district” question was so legally bonkers, a former prosecutor went digging to find out where it came from. Spoiler: It was on Fox News the previous day
Fox News rules their world. Trump judge in docs case makes misguided argument curiously similar to Fox News guest: Weissmann Andrew Weissmann, former federal prosecutor, talks with Alex Wagner about the remarkably ill-informed challenge by Judge Aileen Cannon of Justice Department procedure in the Donald Trump classified documents case, and its curious similarity to an […]
DE’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #9-RD 10
Imagine a state representative who retired, but never bothered to tell anybody. No need to imagine it when your state rep is Sean Matthews. Oh, he hasn’t technically retired. He still mostly goes to Dover, votes for Pete ‘n Val, opposes strong gun safety legislation. And, here’s the point, does virtually nothing else. Now understand […]
Song of the Day 8/8: Run-DMC, “You Talk Too Much”
Who is this song from Run-DMC’s second album about? They never specify, but the seminal hip-hop trio hails from Queens, and they address the target of their scorn as “homie” … say, you don’t think… Donald Trump had established himself as a public nuisance by the time “King of Rock” was released in 1985. He […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 8 2023
Connecticut has the most expensive weed in the country. Delaware: Hold my beer. _______________ There is a madness to the method. TLDR Version: Trump’s constant lying about everything even the absurd nonsense, is right out of the fascist playbook. At times, the drumbeat of false assertions during Trump’s candidacy and presidency perplexed the American press […]
So…all of a sudden Jesus’ed-up Iowans DON’T actually want an adulterous criminal who likes grabbing women by the pussy?
Iowa Evangelical Leader Rips Trump, Says Supporters Now ‘Looking For Another Candidate’ Bob Vander Plaats says Trump’s “facts aren’t lining up with the repetitive rhetoric.” Just wait until they figure out that Vivek Ramaswamy is a Hindu.
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 7, 2023
‘Woke’ Putting Rethug Voters To Sleep. Is it too late for DeSantis to shut down that anti-woke laboratory known as Florida?: Gov. Ron DeSantis last year used the word five times in 19 seconds, substituting “woke” for Nazis as he cribbed from Winston Churchill’s famous vow to battle a threatened German invasion in 1940. Nikki […]
Song of the Day 8/7: Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “Takin’ Care of Business”
Who says irony is dead? Zoom, the San Jose-based company that became synonymous with remote work, has told its employees they have to return to the office at least two days a week, provided they live within 50 miles of a Zoom work site. I have no idea if they run an 8:15 into the […]
Song of the Day 8/6: Marshall Crenshaw, “Someday, Someway”
Marshall Crenshaw’s eponymous debut LP arrived in 1982, a time when New Wave was petering out, but its spare, fresh updating of Buddy Holly’s rockabilly sound won him critical attention. “Someday, Someway,” the first single from the album, only reached No. 62 on the Hot 100, but the LP was full of catchy tunes that […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 6, 2023
Florida Hires Fake College To Teach Its Students. The ‘right’ kind of indoctrination: Last week, an organization called PragerU announced that the state of Florida had approved it as an official vendor for educational material. This was a controversial development: PragerU’s explicit mission is to combat “leftism” in education, and until now, its materials had […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Mississippi Goddam: Remember when the El Supremos eviscerated the Voting Rights Act b/c they didn’t see any deliberate non-compliance on the part of the southern states? Guess they overlooked Mississippi: JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi is violating the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by permanently stripping voting rights from people convicted of some […]
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