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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Safe travels, everybody, if you’re traveling. We’re traveling the less than a mile to our daughter’s house in Kingsridge, where I’ll plop myself on a couch and start drinking. Moderately, of course, Even the football games suck this year, but I’ll be with a great group of people, so it won’t matter. Hope you do […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Smith Folds. He had to, you can’t try a sitting President. The villain amongst all the villains in the piece: Merrick Garland: A judge dismissed the federal election-obstruction charges against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, ending a historic investigation that never went to trial but led to enduring changes in the legal landscape over a […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 25, 2024
Nancy Mace Has Done Us All A Favor–Inadvertently, Of Course. She has given Sarah McBride a platform to introduce herself and her message to the nation. We all know how good she is, now everybody else is finding out: Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who made history this month as the first openly trans person elected […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Will ‘Prosecutors Be Prosecuted’ Under Trump? As good a test as to whether the Republic can hold as any: Again and again, when Donald Trump has faced scandal and scrutiny, Pam Bondi was there to defend him. Bondi said the Justice Department’s special counselinvestigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with Russian interference in the 2016 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 23, 2024
Hospital Lobbyists Try To Kill Diamond State Cost Review Board. Carney said he supports it–but will he appoint the members?: With about two months until a new executive administration takes over in the First State, Delaware Healthcare Association president and CEO Brian Frazee penned a letter Wednesday urging term-limited Gov. John Carney to defer making […]
SD 5 Candidates With Christiana Care Ties Oppose Hospital Care Review Board
Among the four candidates running for the Democratic nomination to fill the soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat currently held by Kyle Evans Gay are two with ties to Christiana Care. Both oppose the Hospital Care Review Board that was legislatively established to address the costs and lack of transparency on pricing from Christiana Care. For the record, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 22, 2024
‘The Salt Typhoon’: China’s Infiltration Of US Telecom Networks: The Chinese government espionage campaign that has deeply penetrated more than a dozen U.S. telecommunications companies is the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history — by far,” a senior U.S. senator told The Washington Post in an interview this week. The hackers, part of a […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Let’s face it: Most of Trump’s Cabinet picks will be confirmed. Including Linda McMahon for Secretary Of Education, despite having lied about having a degree in Education. Or perhaps she got the nomination because she lied. Enjoying Rethug senators having to deal with this shit-show. Matt Gaetz. Pete Hegseth. RFK Jr. Tulsi Gabbard. Still, […]
SD 1 Candidate Forum Open Thread
Figured I’d wait until tonight’s forum concluded. We heard from four of the nine candidates tonight: Adriana Leela Bohm, Dan Cruce, George Frankel and Chris Otto. The Zoom meeting was once again exceedingly well-done. A lot more questions tonight focused on education than was the case with the SD 5 forum earlier this week. Yes, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024
The Ultimate Reality Show Cabinet. Yesterday’s entries: Dr. Oz and Linda McMahon. Before somebody else predicts this, I figured I might as well: Trump is likely negotiating with Fox to give them exclusive rights to that reality show concept. (Oops, too late. Bastard!) Which is why he’s trying to fill his cabinet with people almost […]
The 5th Senatorial District Democratic Candidates’ Forum
It took place last night. Shout-outs to everybody involved in putting this together. At its peak, we had well over 60 attendees at this Zoom meeting, plus the technical staff who made it work. It was very-well run, co-hosted by NCC D Chair Kat Caudle and Wilmington D Chair Cassandra Marshall. Four candidates are vying […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Nancy Mace: Sub-Human. You knew someone was gonna do it, just didn’t know who: Two weeks after the first openly transgender person was elected to Congress, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has introduced a bill banning transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol and in House offices. “Biological men do not belong in private […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 18, 2024
The Fault, Dear Brutus, Is Them: Mr. Trump’s election demonstrates how American tolerance for the unacceptable is nearly infinite. There are hundreds of absolutely mind-boggling things I could point to from the past decade — the suggestion of bleach injections to potentially treat the coronavirus and the wild QAnon conspiracy theories infecting millions of Americans, […]
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