DL Open Thread: Friday, April 24, 2026
John Carney–‘Laugh At Indivisible Delaware, But Don’t Laugh At Me’. I can’t make this stuff up. From what passes for his Administration:
Wilmington, Del. — The City of Wilmington is inviting residents and performers to take the stage and showcase their talents during two upcoming Open Mic Nights at The Queen.
Events aim to highlight the creativity and artistic talent found throughout Wilmington while bringing the community together for two evenings of live entertainment and friendly competition.
Here’s the e-mail sent to participants:
Thanks again for agreeing to showcase your talent for the upcoming City of Wilmington Open Mic Night. Attached to this e-mail you will find a document that details logistics with the talent lineup, and the judges score sheet. Please be advised that we ask each act to stay away from subject matter around homelessness and the LGBTQ community. (Emphasis theirs.). Other than that, please feel free to express yourselves.
Well, in fairness, you could build a pretty good routine around the exploits of Carney’s kid, the Master-Slave relationship between Buccini/Pollin and Carney, the Me/Mini-Me relationship between Carper and Carney, the shoplifting Chief-Of-Staff, and Carney’s attack on the Roberto Clemente League, just for starters. Maybe a few Gibraltar jokes thrown in for good measure. Just don’t mention the Carney Concentration Camp. Hey, seems fair to me.
Trump Fired Navy Secretary Because…:
President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships.
“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Mr. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.
Mr. Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Mr. Trump’s battleships by 2028.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump fired Mr. Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Mr. Trump has demanded, senior defense and administration officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.
President Donald Trump has reportedly urged Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to step down before the midterm elections later this year. The pressure comes as the president’s cabinet is going through a major reshuffling. This has already claimed several officials in recent months.
The White House has allegedly made it clear to Tulsi Gabbard that her resignation is desired ahead of Donald Trump’s midterms strategy taking full shape. Sherwood News sources alleged that the administration wants the intelligence chief gone before voters head to the polls. However, the exact timing of any potential exit remains uncertain.
The friction between Trump and Gabbard reportedly got worse following her testimony at a worldwide threats hearing on Capitol Hill last month. According to The Guardian’s sources, the president expressed frustration that Gabbard declined to condemn Joe Kent. Kent was her former deputy who publicly resigned, stating Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
Sarah McBride Has It Figured Out:
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) on Thursday predicted that President Trump will fire Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard next because he “only fires women.”
McBride told MeidasTouch reporter Pablo Manríquez that all of Trump’s Cabinet officials “deserve to be fired,” adding that she supports an impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran.
McBride is one of eight Democrats co-sponsoring articles of impeachment against Hegseth. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) filed the articles of impeachment earlier this month, accusing Hegseth of committing war crimes, mishandling sensitive information and overseeing an “unauthorized war against Iran and reckless endangerment of United States service members.”
‘Eight Democrats’. Therein lies the problem. Should be every Democrat.
Subtlety Be Damned:
Are You The Lucky Person Who Owns Trump Gold Card? Because, as it turns out, only one person does:
CNN pundits S.E. Cupp and Van Jones burst out laughing on the air Thursday after it emerged that just one person has so far been approved for Donald Trump’s so-called “gold card” visa, the scheme letting foreigners live and work in the U.S. for $1 million.
The commentators got the giggles after “OutFront” anchor Erin Burnett played footage highlighting the stark contrast between Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s admission during a hearing that only one visa had been approved and his earlier boasts that more than $1 billion worth of the cards had been sold.
Watch the video. You’ll thank me.
Enough With The Jokes. Trump Moves To ‘Denaturalize’ US Citizens:
The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators in 39 regional offices would soon be assigned to file denaturalization cases against the individuals, according to an official familiar with the announcement who was not authorized to describe it on the record. Two people familiar with the plans confirmed the broader effort to ramp up denaturalizations. It was not clear what led the department to target the 384 individuals.
Traditionally, experts in the department’s office of immigration litigation have handled denaturalization cases. But the effort to enlist regular prosecutors to pursue these cases could lead to a surge in denaturalizations, which have been rare in recent decades. It also comes just months after Trump administration officials ordered Department of Homeland Security staffers to refer upward of 200 denaturalization cases a month to the DOJ.
“The message it sends is that naturalized citizens don’t have the same rights and stability as native-born citizens,” said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “The government has used this power in the past to target people it views as political opponents.”
You Knew This Would Happen. You paid more for gas, however…:
The largest businesses stand to reap the biggest bucks as the Trump administration begins to return more than $166 billion in duties deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. Even though President Trump’s trade policies have led to higher prices for companies and consumers, many families aren’t in line to benefit directly from the coming refund checks.
The discrepancy is a reflection of the nation’s complicated import laws — and the ever-fluid nature of Mr. Trump’s trade war.
When the government applies taxes to foreign goods, it charges the firms and brokers that bring those items into the country. Those costs proved substantial during the president’s first year back in office, after he imposed a set of so-called reciprocal tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner.
But a majority of justices on the nation’s highest court struck down those duties in February, forcing the administration to pay back much of its coveted tariff revenue. As a result, the government owes refunds to the importers on its record books — meaning companies, in many cases — even if those businesses ultimately shifted the costs of Mr. Trump’s taxes on to their customers.
The beneficiaries may include retail giants, such as Costco, Gap, Home Depot, Kohl’s, Lowe’s, Target and Walmart. For some, analysts estimate that the refunds may total into the billions of dollars apiece, leaving them with a choice of whether to keep the money or share it with consumers, even if indirectly in the form of future discounts.
But almost none of those U.S. retailers commented by Thursday on their exact plans. Only Costco promised previously to pass savings on to customers, without explaining how, as the buy-in-bulk company faces one of a series of class-action lawsuits from furious Americans who believe they are owed refunds.
Heather Boushey, who served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., described the refund process as a “windfall for businesses,” some of which foisted the tariffs on consumers.
What do you want to talk about?
A) the kash cartoon is horrible. his eyes are much bigger than that.
B) the 1million gold card was bought by nicki minaj in an attempt to get her pedophile brother pardoned