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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 26, 2025
Sulawesi–The Island That Holds The Earth’s Secrets?: Mount Lokon, part of an active stratovolcano. Sulawesi, Indonesia, is a spectacular and singular place, blurring the boundaries between myth and ecology. This mountainous island is home to some of the most majestic and ancient sights on the planet, from verdant rainforests to explosive volcanoes to the oldest […]
John Kowalko Has Passed Away
He was among the earliest progressives who sought to challenge the Delaware Way. Many of the ideas that he that he first championed, like the creation of an Inspector General, have come to pass. I suspect and hope that the same will hold true of his seeking to reinstate a progressive income tax. My deepest […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 25, 2025
So, let’s see. Just an average week. Trump destroys the East Wing of the White House to make way for the Billionaires’ Ballroom that will dwarf the rest of the White House in size. Trump sends military carrier to the waters off of Venezuela in preparation for a war he’s, let’s be honest, already started. […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 23, 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: Friday, October 24, 2025
If you need any explanation as to why the Democratic Party is held in such low regard, it’s because we have a lunatic president doing utterly bonkers things every day and, other than Newsom and Pritzker, virtually nobody is setting off alarm bells. I know I’m speaking to the converted, but still. Corruption Continues Unabated. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Fourth Estate Becomes The Fourth Reich. Presenting The Brand-New Pentagon Press Corps: Nearly one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials after refusing to sign a new restrictive press policy, the Defense Department announced a “new media” press corps, largely hailing from right-wing outlets. The 60 peoplefrom various news […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
John Carney’s First Veto Reinforces Whose Side He’s On. It’s, uh, not on the side of renters with unresponsive landlords: Last week, Wilmington Mayor John Carney announced he would veto a bill to establish a city-run escrow account for renters to deposit payments they had withheld from landlords. Now, Councilmembers Christian Willauer, Shané Darby, and […]
Trump Demands DOJ Pay Him $230 Mill For Investigating Him
And the people who will consider approving this deal are all his former defenders who he has now stacked the Justice Department with: President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
‘In Washington, Did Orange Don, His Stately Pleasure Dome Decree’. Construction begins on Trump’s oligarch-funded ballroom: The facade of the East Wing of the White House came crumbling down on Monday as construction began on President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a project that will transform one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and nearly […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, October 20, 2025
Prepare For More Of This: Israel on Sunday launched its heaviest wave of attacks on Gaza since a fragile cease-fire took hold a week ago and said it had temporarily suspended humanitarian aid after accusing Hamas of violating the truce by firing on its soldiers, killing two. After nightfall, the Israeli military said in a […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 19, 2025
I’ve shifted to this Sunday Magazine format to give us at least one day a week where the Trump nightmare doesn’t override everything else. Yesterday’s protests had the same effect. So today I’m sharing the best of what I found from yesterday. Because we at least have hope that we can help stop the Trump […]
The October 18 ‘No Kings’ March Open Thread
Where are you marching? What are you seeing? What are your thoughts and feelings? Celebrity sightings? We’re marching in Wilmington, I plan to wear my sweatshirt with Trump and Putin kissing under the mistletoe. What I DON’T want are speeches by our pathetically-weak Washington delegation, especially Chris Coons. Perhaps there will be a buffet there […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Gee, Look Who Trump Pardoned During The Friday News Dump: Former Representative George Santos of New York, the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn, was released from a federal prison on Friday night after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence for fraud. His lawyer, Joseph Murray, said that Mr. […]
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