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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 3, 2021
Delaware Rethugs Have An AG Candidate. Chuck Welch, a retired Common Pleas Court judge in Kent County and, before that, for six years, a state representative. He’s focusing his campaign on the poor underappreciated police who have not been sufficiently loosed upon the citizenry: Law enforcement officers in the state are also need to feel […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August 2021
There’s so much to enjoy (and possibly to be offended by) this month. In other words, my kind of list: CATBITE!! “I’m good, I’m veryvery good.” BONUS: Videos Only. Watch ’em back to back. What punk and politics should be. And how every one of their vids should end: That’s all I got. I ain’t […]
In Praise Of State Rep. David Bentz
You may have missed it, but in typical low-key fashion, Rep. Bentz announced he would not seek reelection in 2022. During his relatively short legislative career, Bentz has passed a lot of significant bills, and he has been a consistent supporter of progressive initiatives in Dover. Bentz earned his MPA from the University Of Delaware, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Floridians Turning Against DeSantis? Signs point to yes: Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. […]
National AFL-CIO To Gerald Brady: “Resign”.
No, not from the General Assembly. From his position as the Executive Director of the Delaware AFL-CIO: Liz Shuler, national president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement on Friday that she was “sickened” by Brady’s “despicable remarks,” and called for his immediate resignation from the union chapter. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks–And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly enjoyed this vignette: Landesman, the former political staffer, once worked on a campaign where he and other staff had to go door to door and […]
Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’
Punk the way it’s supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words: “THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your racist dad is a piece of shit and THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE.” They’re from, of all places, Durham, North Carolina. Seeing them at […]
The Arden Concert Gild & El Somnambulo Present…
…the following great concerts. My musical dance card is officially full–at least through February. I’m really psyched about these shows that I’m bringing to the Gild Hall this year: An Evening With Sierra Hull. Friday, October 22. I’m co-producing this one with our Gildmaster Ron Ozer. She was a true child prodigy (not Ron), making […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021
U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You. Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy. Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021
Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]
(At Least) Twelve Years Of Wilful Idiocy…
And Racism. Don’t forget racism. Especially racism. Scarlet Woman (Personal to SW: There’s a spot on our writing team if you’re interested) exhumed perhaps the precise moment where the Delaware GOP was taken over by the loonies. This is a must-watch: 12 years later, the same idiots are disrupting school board meetings because they can. […]
Unmasked Idiots Cause Cancellation Of Brandywine School District Meeting
Here’s the point: They showed up at this meeting for the expressed purpose of causing the meeting to be postponed. A meeting that was scheduled to provide parents and students with all the information they would need for the reopening of schools. From the News-Journal story: Skrobot told the room of about 75 people – […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 16, 2021
Yo, Joe, Stop This Pipeline Now. They voted for you. The filthiest oil in the United States, headed here ‘courtesy’ of a Canadian corporation, will soon flow through Indigenous lands if you allow this. 5 billion gallons of water diverted, 760,000 barrels of crude per day to flow through across 14 counties in northern Minnesota. […]
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