May 2025 – Page 4 – Delaware Liberal

Song of the Day 5/13: Tom Waits, “Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again”

By Alby May 13, 20252 Comments

Of all the people in Trump's As-Seen-On-TV cabinet, the downright weirdest might be RFK Jr. While just as deluded and fear-aggressive as any MAGAt, he's at war with an entirely…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 13, 2025

Could be a productive week in Dover, based on the promise of today's Agendas. Particularly the Senate Agenda. Let's start there. I see at least three notable bills: SB 122…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 13, 202511 Comments

We Are All Episcopalians Now: In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it…

Song of the Day 5/12: Angus and Julia Stone, “Big Jet Plane”

By Alby May 12, 20253 Comments

As far as Donald Trump is concerned, the best part of being president is that people give you stuff for free – catnip to the kind of grasping poseur Trump…

DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 12, 20256 Comments

'Da Plane, Da Plane'. The perfect embodiment of the corruption permeating this administration: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari…

Song of the Day 5/11: Frank Zappa and the Mothers, “Camarillo Brillo”

By Alby May 11, 202510 Comments

Frank Zappa's record label wouldn't let him call his band the Mothers, so he added "of Invention" to pacify them. But nobody called them that. They were the Mothers, though…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 11, 202525 Comments

We start today with a Rorschach Test: Thoughts? Comments? Because Nothing In The Belichick/Hudson Saga Is Too Cringe-y For Me: A few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, just before the…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 10, 20251 Comment

Wasn't Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering…

Song of the Day 5/9: The Who, “The Song Is Over”

By Alby May 9, 20252 Comments

The Who has announced another farewell tour. Yeah, sure, you might scoff – wasn't their first farewell tour back in 1982? Yes it was, and it took seven whole years…

DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 9, 20256 Comments

They're Just Trolling Us Now. Jeanine Pirro For DC AG. Some Influencer Who Isn't A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General. Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

Wednesday was basically a committee day with a handful of non-controversial bills being worked in the Senate. Here is yesterday's Session Activity Report. Today's Senate Agenda features two House bills…

Song of the Day 5/8: Luke Bryan, “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old”

By Alby May 8, 20256 Comments

It doesn't get any easier no matter how old you get. Mine was a corgi named Mackie – formally, Honeyfox Four on the Floor – and after 14 1/2 years…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

'That Boy Ain't Right'. We're talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his…