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Let Them Eat Cereal

Filed in National by on March 14, 2024 3 Comments
Let Them Eat Cereal

The CEO of Kellogg’s, which has raised prices post-pandemic more than any other cereal company, thought this was a good time to mention a concept food processors have been pushing for years: Eating breakfast cereal for dinner. “The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on March 13, 2024 3 Comments

I don’t know why this is surprising anymore, but it seems Robert Hur, the Trump-aligned special counsel who said Joe Biden’s brain was scrambled eggs, stretched the truth out of shape in his official report. Transcripts of the interview showed Biden was lucid, if occasionally confused about timelines. Democrats used Hur’s appearance before a House […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on March 12, 2024 9 Comments

The backlash against the police reforms that came after the George Floyd protests has been fierce, led by the police themselves. That’s led to many jurisdictions undoing those reforms in the face of reports of rising crime – which, if you bother to look at the numbers, is the opposite of the truth. Gee, I […]

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Song of the Day 3/11: Roxy Music, “Virginia Plain”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on March 11, 2024 1 Comment

People are still talking about Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s disastrous State of the Union response, which seems to test the theory that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I seem to remember Bobby Jindal had already disproved it back in 2009, when he was considered the GOP’s young, fresh, not-a-white-male face. All most people […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, March 4, 2024

Filed in National by on March 4, 2024 18 Comments

Dr. John Gartner, the Johns Hopkins psychologist who last week pointed out that what passes for Donnie Dotard’s mind is slipping fast, offers even more examples piled up in the intervening week. I’ve seen several articles claiming we’re going to miss Mitch McConnell when he’s gone, which is like saying we’ll miss Putin once he’s […]

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BREAKING: Supreme Court In The Bag For Trump

Filed in Featured, National by on February 28, 2024 17 Comments

They’ve inexplicably  (well, not really) agreed to hear Trump’s bullshit claim that he’s immune from prosecution for any crimes he committed as President. Took them forever to rule on this, then pushed back their hearing on this case until April. Make no mistake, the Supreme Court has politicized this case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/ It’s all in the […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on February 28, 2024 14 Comments

Rep. James Comer, dumbest man in Kentucky, isn’t going to let a little thing like a lying Russian stooge derail his impeachment of Hunter Biden. No sirree, he’s gonna keep fucking that chicken until its feathers fall off. Some Republicans are on the Russian payroll; others, like Comer, are just following along. Israel and Hamas […]

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Song of the Day 2/27: George Clinton, “Atomic Dog”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on February 27, 2024 3 Comments

Commander, the Bidens’ German shepherd, has been sent to live “with relatives” after more than two dozen biting incidends involving Secret Service agents. I hope the relatives have figured out what nobody in the White House apparently did – how to buy and use a muzzle, something lots of owners of Rotties and pitties have […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on February 27, 2024 10 Comments

The Federal Trade Commission sued to stop the grocery mega-merger between Albertson’s, parent company of Acme, and Kroger’s, on the grounds that it would be bad for workers and consumers. I don’t know when that became the standard, but I hope they keep applying it. Not that it will change the narrative – “Biden old” […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

Filed in National by on February 26, 2024 8 Comments

The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court holding that frozen embryos have full human rights has the GOP in a panic, because the public – even hardcore Christianists – overwhelmingly supports IVF, as this memo from the GOP’s Senate committee helpfully points out. Repugs say they have no plans to pass any laws against it, […]

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Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts

Filed in National by on February 24, 2024 11 Comments

You might remember the name Rachel Bitecofer. She’s the political scientist who got her 15 minutes in the spotlight when she nailed the blue wave House elections in 2018 – she predicted a 42-seat pickup for Democrats, double the consensus, and they flipped 41. She then called Trump’s loss a year out, before Biden was […]

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Poll Results: Democrats in Disarray

Filed in National by on February 22, 2024 1 Comment

Atrios over at Eschaton captured the folly of Democrats dwelling on Biden’s age with one sarcastic headline: “Let’s Spend Weeks Talking About The Fact That Our Candidate Is A Drooling Vegetable”. But talk about it we have, so let’s find out who the readership favors to carry the Democratic banner in Biden’s stead. Oh, dear. […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024

Filed in National, Open Thread by on February 21, 2024 3 Comments

The White House promises new sanctions against Russia in the wake of Alexei Navalny’s death. We’ll see if being put on Double Secret Probation does anything to slow down Putin’s murderous regime. Meanwhile, Trump reacted to Navalny’s death by…comparing himself to Navalny. I’m not even going to link to it, because every click just encourages […]

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