Song of the Day 3/17: The Dubliners, “The Auld Triangle”
An Irish air to accompany the consumption of the green-tinted beer sure to flow copiously in Trolley Square today. Like a lot of Irish folk songs, this one isn't as…
The myth of “liberal” news: How the media does the work of fascists
DL has been making this point for nearly 20 years. Salon just now gets it. There is no such thing as the so-called liberal news media. In reality, there is…
Wallflower Prosecutors Don’t Want to Be the First Out on the Dance Floor
Once first Trump indictment drops — 'it's gonna be on' with everyone filing their own indictments: former prosecutor https://www.rawstory.com/trump-indictment-game-on/ Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Thursday that if Donald Trump…
Announcing DL’s April Highlands Bunker Patron Drive
In 2022 the Highland's Bunker established itself as an energetic and necessary part of Delaware's news infrastructure. I could regale you with endless reasons as to why you ought to…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Hey, kids, wanna get your bill placed first on the House Agenda? Simple. Just get El Somnambulo (that's me!) to predict that Our PAL Val will bury it in committee. …
Was Chris Coons knowingly working with Moscow to destabilize American banking?
As SVB failure spreads to Credit Suisse, it is worth looking at what motivated Coons to help Trump (and by extension Putin) by gutting Dodd-Frank in order to destabilize American…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 16, 2023
How AI Algorithms Routinely Reject Medicare Advantage Claims: Just something else that the intellectually-incurious John Carney will never read: The STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is increasingly driving denials by…
Song of the Day 3/16: Randy Rainbow, “Life’s a Fucking Fantasy for Santos”
Randy Rainbow's latest release takes on the Lyin' King, George Santos, with a rare mash-up of two different tunes, "Life's a Jolly Holliday With Mary" from "Mary Poppins" and the…
The headline… *chef’s kiss*
It even has an M. Night Shyamalan twist at the very end.
Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC
The primary pro-Trump super PAC is filing a complaint with the Florida Ethics Commission over what it says is the governor's "shadow presidential campaign."
“The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation.”
This, from Rubber Hose , feels like a weirdly under-reported part of the Russia story. The 2nd biggest nuclear arsenal is sitting on a demographic time bomb It's weird how enamored…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 15, 2023
If this post isn't the worth the price of a non-subscription, I don't know what is. So much stuff that I'm gonna have to up the Snark Factor to keep…
Song of the Day 3/15: Street Dogs, “Unions and the Law”
Michigan is on the verge of becoming the first state in 60 years to roll back vulture capitalism's odious "Right to Work" law, which allows union members to not pay…
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 15 2023
This ides of March, beware the woke. Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define ‘Woke’ ‘TAKE YOUR TIME’ Despite her new book being all about how the “woke”…