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DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Gov. John Carney officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Wilmington Monday. If he succeeds, it would mark one of the biggest self-demotions since ex-President John Quincy Adams was elected to Congress. If he fails, it would be even more embarrassing. It must be the season for political comebacks. DL patron saint Howard Dean is […]
DL Open Thread Monday, April 29, 2024
Trump’s courtroom snoozing isn’t just a punchline – according to this expert, it’s another sign of his cognitive decline. According to Dr. John Gartner, “Trump fell asleep 4 out of 6 days of his own trial. Falling asleep is not in and of itself particularly specific to dementia. I fall asleep at dinner parties, because […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 28, 2024
Every Dog-Killer Has Its Day. Noem’s day is done: The outpouring of animal love from political social media is all in response to South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) — who is believed to be in the running to be Donald Trump’s running mate — admitting in her forthcoming book that she killed a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 27, 2024
Election Integrity–Rethuglican-Style. They no longer even pretend that they’re not gonna try to steal the election: When conservative lawyer and media personality Christina Bobbbecame one of the latest members of Donald Trump’s inner circle to be chargedin connection withthe effort to reverse the 2020 presidential election results, it became immediately clear she would not have […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 26, 2024
No DC Trump Trial Before Election. The Supreme Court has guaranteed it in a multitude of ways. Josh Marshall says it best: I was watching cable news this afternoon at the gym. And I saw one of those examples of what has now become a Trump/Roberts Court-era set piece, where principled and very smart lawyers […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 25, 2024
One Journalist Explains The Link Between Rethugs And Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Anti-Semitism’. I was thinking it, should’ve written it: In early December, the House Education Committee held a hearing considering antisemitic incidents on college campuses. This was the hearing in which the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania offered fumbling responses to […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 24, 2024
If you were wondering what kind of coverage the News Journal would give the race for governor, today’s paper is discouraging. They’ve got a story touting – I kid you not – her endorsement by a bunch of lieutenant governors of other states. Nowhere in the article does it point out that these people know […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The media desperately wants Trump on Trial to be as big a ratings hit as O.J. was, but the dynamics are different. O.J. had a dream team of lawyers, so he kept his mouth shut and tried to look amiable. Trump’s lawyers are not the stuff of dreams, and their client is constitutionally incapable of […]
DL Open Thread Monday, April 22, 2024
Republicans stay in disarray, most recently over Marjorie Taylor Greene’s unabashed Russia-humping. Even the New York Post called her Moscow Marjorie on its cover. Meanwhile Texas GOP rep Tony Gonzales called out his party’s “scumbags” and said Matt Gaetz paid minors for sex. I’m going out on a limb here, but I think that even […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 21, 2024
House Passes Foreign Aid Bill. It must feel liberating to House R’s to tell Trump to go bleep himself. He can’t run candidates against every R who supported funding for Ukraine: The House passed a sweeping $95 billion package Saturday to aid foreign allies amid global threats, showcasing broad support for America’s role in the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 19, 2024
D’s Rescue SINO (Speaker In Name Only) Mike Johnson. As they should have: House Republicans took a critical step late Thursday night toward bringing up the long-stalled foreign aid bill for Ukraine and Israel, after being forced to rely on Democratic votes to move a plan to consider it out of a key committee and […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Lest We Forget…Israel Attacked Iran: Israel was mere moments away from an airstrike on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders at Iran’s embassy complex in Syria when it told the United States what was about to happen. Israel’s closest ally had just been caught off guard. The Israelis had badly miscalculated, thinking that […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 16, 2024
And so the torch is passed. Just days after O.J. Simpson, defendant in last century’s Trial of the Century, hurdled off this mortal coil, Donald J. Trump donned the mantle of rich womanizing defendant for what the infotainment industry hopes will be a similar ratings bonanza. The big story on Day 1: Trump fell asleep. […]
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