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DL Open Thread: Friday, November 8, 2024
What ProPublica Will Cover In A Second Trump Presidency. At least we can look forward to great journalism from one place that hasn’t been utterly compromised: Sixteen years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice. In that time, our investigative reporters have covered three presidential administrations, from the […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Lesley Gore, “It’s My Party”
The late, great Quincy Jones was arguably overqualified to produce this No. 1 hit for 16-year-old Lesley Gore in 1963. He had already led his own 18-piece jazz band on European tours and worked as a composer, arranger and band leader for people like Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. When he turned his attention to […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 7, 2024
I think Bernie Sanders got it right: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Vermont independent said in a statement Wednesday. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Frédéric Chopin, “Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Third Movement (Marche funèbre)”
Something that fits the mood of the day, because the middle section contains hope as well as grief. Chopin composed the funeral march two years before the rest of his sonata, which critics sniffed at but the public embraced. Its opening section has been played at millions of funerals, including Chopin’s own in 1849.
America Is…
…a 10-year-old kid at the amusement park who went on the roller coaster and threw up, then went on the merry-go-round and didn’t throw up but just went around in circles and it wasn’t exciting. So let’s try the roller coaster again!
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
Ugh. I can’t explain it, other than I guess people enjoy a shit show. Well, they’re gonna get one. The floor’s yours.
DL National Elections Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
OK, guys, this is the big one. The night always starts off bad as Kentucky and Indiana report first. But we might at least get a sense as to the degree of an under-count of Harris voters even in these states, if there is an under-count. Georgia and North Carolina close pretty early. I think […]
DL Delaware Election Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
OK, guys, this thread is for the Delaware results only. I can certainly understand that, as the national results come in and some of you perhaps indulge a bit too much (whether out of sheer joy or abject depression), you might mistakenly post national stuff here. I’ll give you a pass because I’m a generous […]
Song of the Day 11/5: Counting Crows, “Omaha”
The odds are against it, but thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College, if all the toss-up states break just the right way, the presidential race could come down to Nebraska’s 2nd District – Omaha and its suburbs. Adam Duritz thought it represented middle America on “August and Everything After,” the band’s 7-million-selling debut […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
I don’t know who first said this or where it originally appeared, but I’ve seen it referenced a couple of times in recent days, and I think it comes closer to anything I’ve heard to explaining why, win or lose, so many people will vote for Trump. His life is a masterclass in white privilege. […]
Song of the Day 11/4: Huffamoose, “Wait”
WXPN’s David Dye is so impatient for the election to be over he devoted an entire show yesterday to songs about waiting. I had completely forgotten about this one, which reached No. 34 on the Modern Rock chart in 1998. Huffamoose, formed by a quartet of Temple University students in the early ’90s, looked like […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 4, 2024
See what happens when you don’t pay the paperboy? There’s not much point in linking to news stories this late in the day. Use the space to make your predictions, air your concerns, mock Republicans… the floor’s yours. For those who haven’t seen it, Lewis Black had some advice for those all-important undecided voters.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 3, 2024
Looks Like The Harris Surge Is–Real. The NYTimes/Siena Poll, which has shown weaker numbers for Harris than comparable polls in the past, now shows a significant surge for Harris. I will also add that, if there are two states where the ground game will make a difference, those two states are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Still […]
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