Rethugs Go After Delaware’s Voter Info. You know, b/c the 2020 election was stolen:
Republican National Committee v. Anthony J. Albence, in his official capacity as State Election Commissioner of Delaware
Plaintiff seeks an order compelling defendant to allow plaintiff access to Delaware’s voter maintenance list in order to review programs designed to update and make accurate voter registration rolls.
Oh, the attorney for the plainfiff? This guy:
Theodore Allan Kittila
Halloran Farkas and Kittila LLP
Yup, Ted ‘Horsey D’ Kittila. How did he earn his Horsey D monicker, you ask?:
A lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court seeks to force a local hospital to use a controversial treatment for COVID-19.
David DeMarco, 54, of Brandywine Hundred was hospitalized with COVID-19 on September 7, 2021, according to a complaint filed on September 17, 2021. Since being hospitalized, he’s not responded to various treatments including anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and steroid drugs administered at Wilmington Hospital, the complaint claims.
An attorney for the DeMarcos, Ted Kittila, told WDEL Monday that DeMarco was moved to home hospice care Sunday, but has since been transferred back to the ICU, where he’s been intubated with mechanical ventilation. He did not answer whether DeMarco was vaccinated against COVID-19.
My snarky rejoinder:
Without the horse dewormer, the lawsuit alleges, this guy is headed for the Last Roundup. They found some doctor in Milton to write a scrip for the dewormer which, of course, has not been shown to have any medical value whatsoever in the treatment of COVID, but which has become yet the latest ‘miracle cure’ touted by the RWNJ’s. A cynic might suggest, “If you’re gonna take horse dewormer, why didn’t you just get the shot?” But I’m no cynic.
Oh, and Ted Kittila? He got 39.2% of the vote against Matt Denn as the Rethug candidate for AG in 2014. 39.2% then is just about 38% now when it comes to the R ceiling statewide in Delaware.
Did Rockford Center Improperly Drug Patients?:
Tia Wright found her 22-year-old son, Darrian, in the emergency room on an early Saturday morning last year. Hours before he arrived at Christiana Hospital, he received a powerful sedative cocktail inside one of Delaware’s psychiatric facilities.
Darrian, who has an intellectual disability that limits his cognitive function, voluntarily admitted himself to the Rockford Center in Newark after telling his mother he wanted to die.
He woke up in the emergency room less than 48 hours later.
At the time of his admission to Rockford, Darrian weighed less than 115 pounds. And during his short stay, Darrian received multiple medications on top of a shot of Benadryl, Ativan, and Zyprexa, a potent combination meant to subdue patients during outbursts, his medical records show.
An independent psychiatrist who reviewed a redacted copy of Darrian’s medical records said he received a large amount of sedating medications when accounting for his body weight. The psychiatrist also said he would not have given such a powerful combination considering Darrian’s weight and the medications already in his system.
Once Darrian left the emergency room, his mother said he had side effects from the medications for weeks. Wright’s story mirrors that of another mother who claims Rockford overmedicated her then-8-year-old daughter, leading to hallucinations that told her to harm herself and others.
The accounts also come after state regulators documented the psychiatric hospital’s repeated violation of patient safety rules in 2022 and 2024. Rockford had regularly given children medications without their, or their parents’, consent, according to inspectors’ reports.
Additionally, two former employees who spoke with Spotlight Delaware said they believe de-escalation processes were not utilized enough in the facility.
The claims reveal a pattern of questionable, if not impermissible, druggings of vulnerable patients. And after turning to Rockford as one of the only care options of its kind in Delaware, patients and their families say they were left searching for recourse against a facility that did more to harm than help.
Recourse that they say has often proven hard to find.
Isn’t it nice to have quality investigative reporting here in Delaware?
Q: When Is A Ballroom Not A Ballroom?
A: When it’s a ‘shed’ to cover up a no-longer top secret military installation hiding underneath. Why is it no longer top secret? Read on:
What if President Donald Trump’s ballroom wasn’t just an ugly vessel for his obsession with gold-plated detritus? And what if it wasn’t just a way to bribe the president or a way to turn Washington into Mar-a-Lago 2.0? What if it was also … a shed?
Yes, a shed.
“The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing,” Trump said.
That sentence makes no sense, as nothing is being built under “the military,” so let’s try that again.
“The military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed,” Trump said. “But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and we’re doing very well. So we’re ahead of schedule.”
Trump didn’t explain how the existence of his top-secret military complex was revealed due to a lawsuit, but he did already blab about it during a Cabinet meeting last week.
“I mean, now it’s no secret, the military wanted it more than anybody. It was supposed to be secret, but it became unsecret because of people that are really unpatriotic saying things, but doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter. It’s going to be great,” he said.
So it’s top secret but was revealed in a lawsuit, so you decided to just tell everyone. Got it.
Your perfectly-sane Commander-In-Chief.
Your Tax Dollars At Work For Kid Rock. Have I mentioned lately that satire is dead? And this: Have I mentioned lately that satire is dead? And this: Have I mentioned lately…
These Stock Market Folks Are So Gullible:
Stock futures rose on Tuesday as after a new report offered investors hope that the U.S.-Iran war could soon come to an end.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures gained 553 points, or 1.2%. Futures tied to the S&P 500 moved up 1.2%, as did Nasdaq 100 futures.
The Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump had told aides he was willing to end military hostilities in the Middle East even if the Strait of Hormuz remained largely shut.
Technology, which has been under pressure since the conflict began, rose broadly in the premarket. The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) traded 0.6% higher. Nvidia climbed 1%, and Microsoft advanced nearly 2%.
Still, crude prices remained higher after Bloomberg reported that Iran struck a Kuwaiti oil tanker in Dubai waters. The Dubai government’s media office said in a post on X that no injuries were reported and that “the safety of all 24 crew members has been secured.”
Memo to The Gullibles: You can’t trust anything Trump says.
What do you want to talk about?