The legal representation in the taxpayer suit against the Diamond State Port Corporation is demanding information from several groups, including the State Auditor’s office.
A subpoena asks the Auditor’s Office to share information gathered during its 2025 audit of the port corporation as part of discovery in a legal challenge to the DSPC’s management. It requests: “Any and all communications” concerning the DSPC, Gulftainer USA, and Enstructure.
One significant allegation in the taxpayer suit involves a $350 million line of credit the state’s former partner Gulftainer took out on the Port of Wilmington and Edgemoor property where the port expansion is being built. The subpoena asks State Auditor Lydia York to share any documentation or bank statements that became available to her.
In her 2025 audit, York didn’t say the line of credit Gulftainer took was illegal. But she did find the state failed to get the company to abide by its contract, before the state re-partnered with Enstructure.
For all intents and purposes, the Port expansion is the blue-collar equivalent to the Billionaires’ Bill. Delaware Way shit that the insiders insist simply must be done. Because they have the ‘facts’, and you don’t–nor should you have them.
Higher energy prices drove up inflation in the United States in September, a warning shot to President Trump ahead of midterm elections that have centered primarily on affordability concerns. The uptick in consumer prices will also keep the Federal Reserve under pressure to raise interest rates again after last month’s move.
The Consumer Price Index Report, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday, showed overall prices rose 0.6 percent, the largest monthly increase in five months. Compared with the same time last year, prices were 3.7 percent higher.
The bulk of the increase stemmed directly from energy prices, which have shot higher this year because of the war with Iran. Gasoline prices, which in late September rose to the highest level in four months at nearly $4.50 a gallon, surged 9.1 percent for the month. That accounted for more than half of the overall monthly increase in prices. They are up 34.2 percent over the past year.
Fuel oil prices, used for heating in many homes in the northeast, have also shot higher, rising 15.3 percent in September, or 74.2 percent on an annual basis.
Even the MAGAt Mouthbreathers know that this is on Trump.
Did Anybody See The New White House Spokesperson In Action? Don’t blink, ’cause she probably won’t be there long–(a) because her preparation was utterly pathetic for her first press briefing and; (b) because she blatantly lied about her credentials:
When President Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity and appointed her as his new press secretary, he called her “an attorney.”
This is also how Zacharia, repeatedly and publicly, describes herself. “I’m a lawyer,” Zacharia said during an appearance on the Greg Kelly Show on October 5, 2026. “[A]s a lawyer, the procedural steps are absolutely critical,” Zacharia opined during the August 31, 2026, edition of Fox & Friends First. “I’m a lawyer, I went to Pepperdine, Pepperdine Law,” Zacharia said on the “In Front of Us” podcast on August 14, 2026. “[A]s a lawyer, there’s a big difference between answering something under oath and answering something to the media,” Zacharia explained on CNN on February 7, 2026. There are many more examples.
Zacharia was also identified on screen as a lawyer during at least 18 appearances on Fox News since March 2025.
Yet, there is no evidence that Zacharia ever passed a bar exam or has been admitted to practice law in any state. She is not listed as a member of the State Bar of California, the state where she lives. According to her LinkedIn account, she worked as “General Counsel” for a nonprofit in the state called Fix California. Zacharia is also not listed as a member of the State Bar of Texas or as a member of the D.C. Bar, two other places where she worked.
Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus D.C., that Zacharia was admitted to practice law anywhere — and found none.
This is not an academic distinction. In California, where Zacharia says she was employed as “General Counsel” to a nonprofit, holding yourself out as a lawyer when you are not admitted to the state bar (or otherwise authorized to practice) is a crime.
After graduating from law school in 2011, Zacharia moved to China, where she worked at Zhong Lun, a large Chinese law firm. It is quite plausible for a law school graduate who is not admitted to practice law in any state to work for a firm in China, since the work may not involve American courts.
But Zacharia has claimed that, while in China, she served as “outside counsel” to both the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). “I was the outside counsel to the IFC and the World Bank,” Zacharia said on the Buck Sexton Show on February 28, 2025. “It was an interesting and exciting experience.” She repeated this description of her work many times, and it was included in her biography for the California Globe, where she was a columnist.
There’s just one problem with her claims. Let’s leave it to Josh Marshall to drive the final stake into Zacharia’s credibility:
The Washington Post reported, for instance, that Zacharia “said she had passed a bar exam in China, a country where noncitizens aren’t allowed to practice in courtrooms.” But it’s more than that. Foreign nationals are not allowed to take the Chinese bar exam or practice law in China under any circumstances. Her LinkedIn bio says she worked at a Chinese law firm, Zhong Lun, while living in China. And that is possible. I assume it’s true. Foreigners can work at Chinese law firms but only for the purpose of advising on the law in the countries in which they are licensed to practice law. They are specifically barred from advising clients on Chinese law. I don’t know whether not having passed the bar in the U.S. would have been an issue on that front or not. Bottom line: In her first day on the job Zacharia gave everyone the impression that she took the bar exam in China. But that’s not true. Because she would not have been allowed to.
Oh, her press conference? Here is but a taste:
Well, she’s a blonde. First (and only?) qualification met.
Hmmm, you all need a musical interlude, don’t you? No? You’re getting one anyway:
How Many Votes Do You Think R Incumbent Rep. Andy Harris (Maryland) Won With This?:
Lets’s not bury the lede: Harris says that diesel prices are high due to Democratic environmental regulations. Who am I to argue?
Musk Goes All-In On Russia. Blocks Starlink To Ukraine:
A Ukrainian military official claimed Wednesday that Musk’s SpaceX had interrupted functioning of the country’s military-grade Starlink terminals, Reuters reported. Presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian defense forces “did not receive warning about this limitation, and this led to the disruption of several missions.”
The disruption comes just days after Trump publicly criticized Ukraine for continuing to attack Russian oil refineries in the wake of the U.S. lifting sanctions on the sale of Russian oil, and called for the removal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Musk weighed in on Trump’s comments on social media Saturday, writing: “Zelensky has gone too far.”
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, whose country pays for Ukraine’s Starlink access, responded to reports of the disruption.
“Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again? As your European customers, we are watching you,” he wrote on X. Musk did not respond.
If the disruption really is some kind of political intervention, this is only further proof that Europeans—or really, anyone in the world—cannot rely on any of Musk’s products, as they will be at the whims of the billionaire technocrat that still finds himself at Trump’s beck and call.
What do you want to talk about?
the new press secretary looks surprising like trumps….daughter
Endryu Kharris sez wut?