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Meet The New Gestapo, Same As The Old Gestapo
On Return Day, House members and staff wore ‘495’ stickers, celebrating the end of the short, but far-too-long, reign of Val Longhurst as Speaker. 495 days. Such humorous stickers are a staple of Return Day. Undaunted, the House Democratic Caucus elected the remnants of the Mean Girls’ Club to lead them. Further into the abyss. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 10, 2024
I kinda buried this story a couple of days ago, but it deserves better. As do the people that Purzycki and the cops are trying to roust out of Buccini/Pollinville: Last month, Wilmington officials and the ACLU of Delaware settled a lawsuit over the city’s policing of homeless people – an agreement that barred local […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Yesterday I set out to find an alternative to fill the void in the post-MSNBC phase of my life. I’d always been intrigued with the notion of Scandinavian noir. Perhaps because I’d never immersed myself in it. So, I decided to binge-watch a Scandinavian noir TV show. After consulting those ‘Best Of Scandinavian Noir’ lists, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 8, 2024
What ProPublica Will Cover In A Second Trump Presidency. At least we can look forward to great journalism from one place that hasn’t been utterly compromised: Sixteen years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice. In that time, our investigative reporters have covered three presidential administrations, from the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 7, 2024
I think Bernie Sanders got it right: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Vermont independent said in a statement Wednesday. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black […]
DL National Elections Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
OK, guys, this is the big one. The night always starts off bad as Kentucky and Indiana report first. But we might at least get a sense as to the degree of an under-count of Harris voters even in these states, if there is an under-count. Georgia and North Carolina close pretty early. I think […]
DL Delaware Election Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
OK, guys, this thread is for the Delaware results only. I can certainly understand that, as the national results come in and some of you perhaps indulge a bit too much (whether out of sheer joy or abject depression), you might mistakenly post national stuff here. I’ll give you a pass because I’m a generous […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 3, 2024
Looks Like The Harris Surge Is–Real. The NYTimes/Siena Poll, which has shown weaker numbers for Harris than comparable polls in the past, now shows a significant surge for Harris. I will also add that, if there are two states where the ground game will make a difference, those two states are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Still […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 2, 2024
Does Trump WANT To Lose? I’m starting to think so. Because he’d rather have to reprise the ‘election was stolen’ meme from 2020 than to actually have to do the job. I mean, why else would he go to New Mexico and say stuff like this?: Former President Donald Trump admitted to a crowd of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 1, 2024
Trump Fantasizes About Liz Cheney…With Guns Trained On Her: During an onstage conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Ariz., Trump launched into a meandering diatribe against Cheney, who was one of only two Republicans on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot. Trump said Cheney was a “radical war hawk” who […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October 2024
A surprisingly superb selection this month. ‘Surprising’ in that I have a rule. It’s a stupid rule, but a rule nonetheless: If a song comes out, but is on an album that will not be released until the following year, I don’t include it. I will say that January and February of 2025 sound real […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Personal To Feckless Joe: Can’t you just shut up for one more week? Or, you know, maybe stop sending more weapons to Israel? Or both? A Garbage Truck Named Trump. Doubling down on the notion that lots of Americans are garbage while sitting in a garbage truck with ‘TRUMP’ emblazoned on it strikes me as […]
I’m Calling It: Harris Will Win
Not only that–she’ll have coattails that will flip the House and quite possibly at least lead to a 50-50 Senate. Yes, I think the polls are wrong. I think that they have failed to account for what I see as being an overwhelming female vote that will result in something like a blue wave. I […]
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