February 2026 – Page 2 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 22, 20269 Comments

Frederick Wiseman--America's Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking,…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 21, 20264 Comments

Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked…

BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Most Trump Tariffs

By El Somnambulo February 20, 20264 Comments

From the NYTimes: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major…

Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”

By Alby February 20, 20267 Comments

U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP "Days of Ash" joins the growing list of anti-DHS…

DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 20, 2026

By Alby February 20, 20265 Comments

Spotlight Delaware unveiled a major project yesterday that assesses the statewide reassessment that has gored many an ox. Not surprisingly, it found that poor people and minorities got hit the…

Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending February 19, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 20, 20264 Comments

1. R Nikki Miller Drops Out Of RD 20 Race. I'm surprised, TBH. She almost beat Stell Parker Selby in 2024, and she almost beat Alonna Berry in the 2025…

Song of the Day 2/19: Joe Frazier and the Knockouts, “Knock on Wood”

By Alby February 19, 2026

Guest post by Nathan Arizona It seems wrong to put a movie-prop statue right next to a major collection of great art, yet there’s Rocky at the steps of the…

DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026

By Alby February 19, 20264 Comments

For those who pay attention to polls, this recent one contains an interesting phenomenon, noted on BlueSky by Adam Bonin, a lawyer from Philadelphia. For months I've banged the drum…

Song of the Day 2/18: Billie Jo Spears, “Blanket on the Ground”

By Alby February 18, 20262 Comments

The tale of "Kristi Needs Her Blankie" is even sadder and sillier than first reported. You may recall from, oh, last week sometime that DHS chief Kristi Noem tried to…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 18, 20263 Comments

Why Not Colbert For President?: Stephen Colbert addressed the fervor around Monday’s “Late Show” on Tuesday, remarking that he’d said his piece after CBS wouldn’t air his interview with James…

Song of the Day 2/17: Robert Duvall, “I’ve Decided to Leave Here Forever”

By Alby February 17, 20263 Comments

The obituaries for Robert Duvall, the greatest character actor of his generation, all lauded his amazing versatility. Some of them mentioned that for his lone Oscar-winning role, as washed-up country…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 17, 20263 Comments

RIP: Jesse Jackson: “I may be poor ...” began the call-and-response Rev. Jesse Jackson led in various forms before rapt audiences for more than half a century. “But I am…

Song of the Day 2/16: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Naked and Famous”

By Alby February 16, 2026

Though today is widely known as Presidents Day, the federal holiday is still officially called Washington's Birthday. Many states have switched the name to Presidents Day, but nine states, including…