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DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 13, 2025
So much grift, so much fascism, so little time: One Way To Boost Tesla Sales: The US Department of State is planning to spend $400m buying new Tesla armoured vehicles, even as the carmaker’s boss, Elon Musk, leads efforts to slash government spending under Donald Trump. A procurement forecast produced by the department showed the […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Another Day In The Life Of A Fascist State. President Musk Claims To Have Uncovered Massive Federal Fraud. Provides no proof: The billionaire Elon Musk said in an extraordinary Oval Office appearance on Tuesday that he was providing maximum transparency in his government cost-cutting initiative, but offered no evidence for his sweeping claims that the […]
Meyer To Go After ‘Third Rail’ Of Delaware Politics?
That ‘third rail’ being the corporate golden egg that fills the state’s coffers: Delaware’s budget depends on more than $2 billion brought in by its leading corporate franchise work, which helps to keep the cost of living lower for residents. A recent spate of high-profile corporate departures has unnerved state leaders, however, and now reforms […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
A Day In The Life Of A Fascist State: Trump’s DOJ Orders Charges Dropped Against NYC’s Corrupt Mayor. After Eric Adams virtually took up residence at Mar-A-Lago. Trump Orders Consumer Protection Agency Shut Down. More accurately, the co-author of Project 2025 orders it shut down. In theory, it would take congressional action to close the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, February 10, 2025
The Bad News? Trump Is President. The Good News? The Eagles Are Your Super Bowl Champions! Me? I’m opting for a day of Bread And Circuses. How they got there. No, no spoilers. I really like this piece. Click, take your time. Savor it. The Chiefs never had a chance: Before long, they stopped looking […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, February 9, 2025
‘Make Musk The Villain’. I agree with Chris Murphy: “I don’t think economic populism really sells to anybody unless you’re naming names. When you engage in sort of just general critiques of billionaires or special interests, I think that falls flat,” Murphy said. “Donald Trump is really good at naming enemies, particular individuals or particular […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 8, 2025
A Failed DL Experiment. Well, actually, it’s all my fault. Going forward, I will no longer post submissions unless I know who wrote the submission. Those who write pieces will, of course, have your anonymity protected should you so desire, but, to protect ourselves and the blog, we must know who is writing. Yes, it […]
BREAKING: Meyer–‘No More Foot-Dragging On School Funding’
As in, no more ‘we won’t be back with recommendations until today’s second-graders have graduated’. Sarah Mueller has the story: In an exclusive interview with WHYY News, Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer said he’s ordering his secretary of education to push to implement a new public education funding system by the start of the 2025-2026 school […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 7, 2025
Open Question: Dan Cruce, where do you live? Do you live in SD 1, or do you live in Suxco? Y’see, it’s kinda important because you ran for office in SD 1, Democratic insiders nominated you to fill the term of Sarah McBride in SD 1. If you don’t live in SD 1, you will be ineligible […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Is Dan Cruce Dave McBride Part Deux? Meaning, is he even eligible to hold office as State Senator from SD 1, or is he, in fact, just another Suxco resident seeking a Senate seat in NCC/Wilmington? Here is the complaint that has been filed with Anthony Albence of the Department Of Elections: Commissioner Albence, As a […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Elon Musk Takes Over America While D’s Apologize Over Hunter Biden’s Pardon. No, not at the same time. But Democrats have now proven themselves utterly incapable of pushing back at all on the oligarchy they have allowed to happen. They are feckless, lacking feck. A non-citizen who is a Nazi sympathizer and a racist […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Is This Lawsuit Really Necessary? Can someone please explain to me why Matt Meyer simply won’t, or can’t, submit his nominees to the State Senate for the Diamond State Port Board and just be done with it? If the State Senate was determined to approve BHL’s nominations, they would already have done it. As far […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, February 3, 2025
Musk Runs Amok. Dems Do Nothing. If a political party does nothing to challenge arguably the most-despised person in the world, one who is bent on destroying the fourth branch of government (call it the civil service, call it the bureaucracy), it ceases to be a political party worthy of support. Take, for example, USAID: […]
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