Open Thread
DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 9, 2024
The news, apparently spooked by yesterday’s eclipse, went into hiding, so the media, as always, fell back on Trump. After a big buildup teasing his position on abortion – can you name another candidate who, eight years after entering the White House, still hadn’t formulated one? – only to chicken out and say the decision […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 7, 2024
A little detail from yesterday’s campaigning. I arrive at this self-contained community. It’s gusty. One of those oversized balloon things, an ‘I Love You’ balloon in the shape of a heart with golden plastic ‘legs’, blows down some lawns, crosses the street, and winds up in some shrubbery behind a massive Delaware Tire Center complex. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 6, 2024
When Is A Bond Not A Bond? When it’s not valid in the State of New York. Watch the video: The video explains the details behind NY AG Letitia James’ objections to the $175 million bond that TFG filed against the $454 million judgment in the tax fraud case. Turns out the company that posted […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 5, 2024
First, A Public Disservice Announcement: Delaware Political Weekly will be a little late this week. As in tomorrow. I’m working on the Bob Marshall piece, and I think I’ve finally figured out how to write it. Algorithms Decide Assisted Living Staffing Levels. Which is why the government must: Two decades ago, a group of senior-housing […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Truth Social Was Kept Alive By Russian Money Launderer. Great reporting from The Guardian: Trump Media almost did not make it to the merger after regulators opened a securities investigation into the merger in 2021 and caused the company to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited to get the green light […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Just when you thought that Israel couldn’t sink any lower, they drone-bombed a World Central Kitchen vehicle, killing seven people working to bring food to famine-stricken Gaza – despite having cleared the trip with Israel’s defense department ahead of time. Which demonstrates that this regime isn’t just evil, it’s also incompetent. RFK Jr. tried to […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Billionaires Who Prop Up Trump: We already know about Jeff Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, who has bankrolled the Trump pump-and-dump shell company housing Truth Social. We also know that Trump has not invested one penny in the shell company. We know that the company literally has no chance to make money, meaning the only […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 1, 2024
An Attorney Who Is Holding MAGAt Rethugs Accountable. Hey, he can pocket that corporate lucre as long as he’s paying it forward like this: Michael J. Gottlieb can never remember the exact amount — it’s $148,169,000— that a jury ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. But […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 31, 2024
If you’re celebrating a special holiday, best wishes for joyous celebrations. We’re doing brunch at my oldest daughter’s house–meaning mimosas, followed by a nap for me. Finally got out there yesterday, and knocked doors for a couple of hours for a great candidate, and with a great (and large) team. I’m telling you, grassroots campaigns […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Trump Doubles Down On Teh Sociopath: Former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on Friday to his social media website that features an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied together. The video shows two moving trucks decorated with flags and decals supporting Mr. Trump. The tailgate of the second vehicle […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 29, 2024
Trump And Christianity: Why So Much Blood?: The exhibition, which opened in late February, doesn’t take up the proliferating use of blood as political metaphor in the rhetoric of Donald Trump, but it explores the deep historical reservoirs of meaning that make the former president’s invocation of blood so disturbing. Christianity was a particularly blood-obsessed […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 28, 2024
This Election Was A BFD. A 25% point win in a race that the same D challenger lost by 7% two years ago? Gee, I wonder what could have made the difference. You know, it’s quite possible that Trump’s standing in the polls has already peaked. Abortion rights is gonna drive turnout. Could this end […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Six members of a construction crew are missing and presumed dead in the Baltimore bridge collapse, but it could have been a lot worse. Alex Jones and his ilk spun lots of conspiracy theories, and that’s before they knew the workers who died were immigrants from Central America and Mexico. Ever since the Supreme Court’s […]
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