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BREAKING: We Have Our Coons Alternative!
We can only send one Chris to the United States Senate. Why not send a true Democrat? Here is the official campaign release: Chris Beardsley Announces Candidacy for U.S. Senate to Champion Healthcare and Housing as Human Rights for Delawareans WILMINGTON, Del. – Chris Beardsley, community advocate and dedicated public servant, today announced his candidacy […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Hegseth Tries To Make Admiral Scapegoat For His War Crimes. I don’t think this will go well: Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 1, 2025
Yes, Honorables. Data Centers Are A BFD. Ignore at your own peril: The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia offers an early glimpse of what could be a sleeper issue in the 2026 midterm elections: the politics of AI infrastructure. In Virginia, Governor-elect Abigail […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: November 2025
I was able to cobble together a surprisingly-strong (if not long) list o’ tunes this month. ‘Surprising’ in the sense that I don’t include songs from projects that aren’t coming out until next year. ‘Not long’ for the reason I just mentioned. Hope you enjoy: De La Soul?? In 2025? That’s right!: Jesse Sykes & […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 30, 2025
Gullah Geechee Families Seek Return Of Homeland Seized By Government: A once thriving Black community along the Georgia coast called Harris Neck is now covered with greenery. During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the area boasted a schoolhouse, general store, firehouse and seafood processing plants, and supported 75 Black households […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 29, 2025
Hegseth Commits War Crimes: The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive,according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 28, 2025
Idle Thought: Every single day, Trump says and/or does stuff that show he is unfit to be President. Some enterprising Democrat with a platform (Newsom is doing it to some extent, but not particularly related to the 25th Amendment) should hold a daily press briefing calling out Trump’s unfitness for office based on the stuff […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 27, 2025
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving! Made even better b/c my daughter and son-in-law are now hosting, and that we’re having pulled pork, not turkey. BTW, you never know–you might want to read b/c this could be the best Open Thread I ever wrote…not likely, but still: Two Guardsmen Shot In DC–The story is unusual, to say the least. As […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Has Al (Not A I) used Ballroom Blitz yet?: President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2025
Batshit-Crazy Defense Secretary ‘Investigates’ Senator/Military Veteran For ‘Sedition’: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into Mark Kelly after purportedly receiving “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Democratic senator from Arizona — an extraordinary use of authority to investigate a combat veteran and prominent critic of the Trump administration. The announcement Monday follows a video posted […]
BREAKING: Judge Throws Out Comey And James Cases–Rules That Lindsay Halligan Was Hired Illegally
Here’s the story: A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both […]
Who Are YOUR DL MVP’s For 2025?
‘MVP’ stands for ‘Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause’ in Delaware. Your deadline for submissions is December 15. Remember that the criteria is solely what your choices did this year to earn consideration. So please suggest names and share why you think they deserve inclusion. While it’s ultimately ‘my list’, in recent years, the vast […]
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