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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 30, 2025
Musk/DOGE’s Push For The Privatization Of Public Services: Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk. The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 29, 2025
Meyer Signs Bill, Musk Does This. Coincidence?: Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion. Because both companies are privately held and controlled by Musk, the […]
Delaware’s Legislators Of The Week: March 25-27, 2025
Only three distinguished themselves, all for the same reason. These three legislators brought forward thoughtful and worthwhile improvements to the Musk-Pass SS1/SB 21 bill. These were not, to be clear, the equivalents to the throw-sand-in-the-gears RWNJ amendments consistently introduced en masse during abortion debates. These amendments were carefully-crafted and deserved serious consideration. The fact that they […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 28, 2025
Trump’s Just Doing Weird Stuff Now. Like this: The “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo. The White House fact sheet (irony duly-noted) describing the order said it […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Looks like the Honorables are gonna make a swift getaway. The General Assembly will not meet next week as Bond Bill deliberations will instead take center stage. As often is the practice on getaway days, the House and Senate will run truncated, and non-controversial, agendas today. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Bottom line, a […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Yet One More ‘Disappearance’, Captured On Tape: As Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk made her way to an interfaith center to break the Ramadan fast on Tuesday, plainclothes agents, some masked, descended on her. She screamed as an unmasked agent in a hooded sweatshirt grabbed her, security video shows. Within about a minute, the agents […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
No pre-game show today. No agendas being run, committee meeting results can wait until tomorrow. I can’t recall a more telling, debate is not the correct word, example of kabuki theatre than what I saw and heard as the House addressed SS1/SB 21 yesterday. I was prepared for the likelihood that the bill would pass, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
This thread may be shorter than usual. There is just so much to unwind about the House ‘debate’ on the Musk-Pass bill that I found it hard to sleep last night. Then again, this thread may not be shorter than usual. All depends on what I find. Let’s go searchin’. Trump Signs Another Unconstitutional Executive Order. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 25, 2025
Everything Falls Apart: 1. Trump Bozos Share War Plans With Journalist Over Unsecured Server. They, of course, had no idea they had invited a journalist. Will Waltz take the fall? Hegseth claims that the war plan wasn’t a war plan. 2. Social Security Office Melts Down: The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Big Story: ‘Musk-Pass’ Bill Surfaces On House Agenda. It took until about 24 hours before today’s session, but the Speaker finally released the House Agenda and, yes, SS1/SB 21 is the fourth and final item on today’s docket. Why did it take so long? I don’t know, do you? If so, what have you heard? […]
The FIRST Delaware Occasional Political (Non-)Weekly Of The 2026 Cycle: Nov. 2024 to March 23, 2025
Presented to you, for now, whenever the occasion warrants it. I think you’ll agree that that time is now. Let me start with a message to D challengers who intend to use your opponents’ fealty to Elon Musk against them, as you should. I assume you are all humane people, you recognize that even the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 24, 2025
Yes, Trump Is Serious About Greenland: Relations between Greenland and the United States sank further on Sunday as the Greenlandic prime minister erupted over what he called a “highly aggressive” delegation of senior officials the Trump administration said it would send to the island this week. Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 23, 2025
How Scammers Ply Their Trade. Quite the fascinating report: The F.B.I., China’s Ministry of Public Security, Interpol and others have tried to combat scammers, who often lurk on social media and dating apps, luring people into bogus financial schemes or other ruses. Telecom companies have blocked numbers. Banks have issued repeated warnings. Yet the industry […]
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