2025 – Page 61 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 28, 2025

Post-Democracy America: Trump Fires Justice Department Prosecutors: Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials yesterday who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump, according to…

Delaware’s IT Department Is In Crisis–And No One Is Holding Them Accountable

By El Somnambulo January 28, 2025

Guest Post From An Anonymous IT Insider: Technology is more critical than ever in shaping government services. But what is Delaware’s state technology agency, DTI, doing? Unlike Delaware, states like…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 28, 2025

The Big Story: Can Matt Meyer And Bryan Townsend Smoke A Peace Pipe (preferably filled with homegrown Delaware herb)? They're gonna have to. Looks like Meyer will have a pretty…

Song of the Day 1/27: Noël Coward, “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans”

By Alby January 27, 2025

There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals…

DL Open Thread: Monday, January 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 27, 2025

War With Colombia Averted! Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation…

Song of the Day 1/26: Cheap Perfume, “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis”

By Alby January 26, 2025

Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 26, 2025

Post-Democracy America Day 6: Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical…

Song of the Day 1/25: Willie Nelson, “I Gotta Get Drunk”

By Alby January 25, 2025

Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 25, 2025

Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a…

Song of the Day 1/24: Stan Rogers, “Barrett’s Privateers”

By Alby January 24, 2025

It's said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, "Oh, the year was 1778," you're sure to be answered, "How I wish I was in…

DL Open Thread: Friday, January 24, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 24, 2025

Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural... W-wait. That can't be, it must be an optical illusion. You know, like, what's it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps? Perhaps this…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 23, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 23, 2025

Spotlight Delaware has today's Big Story--aka Bethany Hall Long proves herself to be a political hack to the very end. I had seen the nominations to the Wilmington Port Corporation…

Song of the Day 1/23: John Anderson, “Down in the Orange Grove”

By Alby January 23, 2025

Best way to cope with the firehose of MAGA sewage spewing from the media is to skip stories about what might happen or what various things could mean, stick to…