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Alonso del Arte's Profile
Real Name: Alonso Delarte
Gender: Male
Location: Michigan, United States of America
Groups: Pro Choice, Cranky Grammarians, Motor City Kossacks, Star Trek fans, Election Action Team It's Time, Foster Campbell 2016, Movie Review Group, Television Studies, Board Games, Photo Journal
Twitter: @alonsodelarte
Diaries published: 1358 (64 days since last diary on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 01:00 PM PST)
Comments posted: 7009 (63 days since last comment on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 04:37 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 14871
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: The Simpsons are disconnected from the economic realities of most Americans, 10 comments, 19 recommends
People Following Alonso del Arte: 53
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Kids going to go hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra live at Orchestra Hall is a thing that still happens. Kids going to the Detroit Opera House to hear the Detroit Opera is apparently also a thing ...
by Alonso del Arte
 12 comments
on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 01:00 PM PST
with 6 Recommends
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Fake progressive Gabriela Santiago-Romero, a nominal Democrat who nominally represents Detroit’s City Council District 6, does good things sometimes. Like, last week, for example, as detailed in her Friday newsletter. On Monday [November 17], Team GSR...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Wed Nov 26, 2025 at 08:40 PM PST
with 1 Recommend
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Sorry, you can’t be a billionaire, or at least a millionaire. But thanks to FanDuel Casino, you can be the next best thing: a “thrillionaire.” That’s a word ad agency Orchard Creative ...
by Alonso del Arte
11 comments
on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
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To start off previous open threads, I have written about how the idiotic tariffs have already hurt sales of pianos, harpsichords and other musical instruments. As far as I can tell, sheet music sales have not been directly affected. But there’s...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Mon Nov 24, 2025 at 04:47 PM PST
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It’s odd for a show that once had Robert Reich as a guest star to be disconnected from the economic realities that most Americans face. But disconnected The Simpsons are, contends JM McNab in an article for Cracked. A big reason why The Simpsons was...
by Alonso del Arte
10 comments
on Sun Nov 23, 2025 at 06:00 PM PST
with 19 Recommends
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- In April 2022, US authorities extradited Juan Orlando Hernández from Honduras to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US. In 2024, he was convicted by a New York jury...56 comments 97 Recs
- Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...275 comments 726 Recs
- Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own. By Grace Panetta ,�20 comments 120 Recs
- Apparently, confabulating Trump thinks Somalis are Afghans, as Trump moves to suggest that Somalis in the US are a threat to national security. Money laundering threats might be a little closer to home, considering Epstein’s money laundering. Why did...77 comments 199 Recs
- Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. In the beginning, there were turkeys. Benjamin Franklin, of Founding...73 comments 82 Recs
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been eviscerated over her refusal to help after ICE detained her nephew’s mom. The White House official has gone radio silent since Bruna Ferreira—who is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew—was swept up by...159 comments 404 Recs
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy groaned to reporters Monday about the “degradation in civility” at airports, urging people to dress “with some respect” as they travel for the holidays. ��191 comments 120 Recs
- Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...88 comments 468 Recs
- When court-assigned prosecutor Peter J. Skandalakis dismissed Georgia’s election-interference case and justified his decision by claiming that “reasonable minds could differ” about Donald Trump’s conduct — and that therefore Trump was “entitled to the...154 comments 430 Recs
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