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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending February 19, 2026
1. R Nikki Miller Drops Out Of RD 20 Race. I’m surprised, TBH. She almost beat Stell Parker Selby in 2024, and she almost beat Alonna Berry in the 2025 Special Election to replace the terminally-absent Selby. This leaves, as of now, no Republican clallenger in this race. Although, alleged Democrat Ruby Schaeffer has filed […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
Why Not Colbert For President?: Stephen Colbert addressed the fervor around Monday’s “Late Show” on Tuesday, remarking that he’d said his piece after CBS wouldn’t air his interview with James Talarico, a Democratic Texas state representative. “We made some jokes — that’s what they pay me for — and I was ready to let it […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026
RIP: Jesse Jackson: “I may be poor …” began the call-and-response Rev. Jesse Jackson led in various forms before rapt audiences for more than half a century. “But I am … somebody! I may be on welfare. But I am … somebody! I may be in jail. But I am … somebody! I may be […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 16, 2026
Everyone But Trump Takes Fall Over Epstein Ties. Casey Wasserman: Prominent US agent Casey Wasserman is selling his talent company after documents linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were published in the US. Several high-profile clients, including singer Chappell Roan, quit the firm this week after it emerged he flew on Epstein’s private […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 15, 2026
The ‘Looksmaxxing Mainstream’. Is this what Michael Jackson was going for?: Clavicular is 6-foot-2, weighs 180 pounds and has a 31-inch waist. His biacromial width — basically the span of the clavicle, from which the 20-year-old streamer gets his name — is 19.5 inches. He has a midface ratio, which is derived by dividing the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
This Is Not Fascism. Right?: The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. In recent months, Google, Reddit, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 13, 2026
The Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Journalists and researchers will spend the next months ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has already emerged. In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 12, 2026
“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 […]
BREAKING: Trump ‘Erases Government Power To Fight Climate Change’
From the New York Times: President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
You Helped Kill The Daedalus Proposal. Along with some great reporters who wouldn’t let go of the story. Sarah Mueller: The idea of Daedalus doing business with either state sparked controversy because company executives are profiting from ICE deportations. The proposal drew widespread attention after activists spotted it on the DRBA’s December meeting agenda. Delaware […]
Taxpayer-Funded Bribes Could Only Keep Incyte Here–Until Today
Breaking News from WDEL: Less than two years after buying two downtown Wilmington properties known as Bracebridge I and III on 11th Street at King and French streets, Incyte Corporation announced on Tuesday afternoon, February 11, 2026, that they are selling the buildings to Buccini Pollin Group (BPG). WDEL learned in early December that work […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
‘Flooding The Zone’ In The Age Of Trump: FBI Takes Marching Orders From Discredited Conspiracy Theorist: The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026
Total ‘Victory’ Over Climate Change. As in ‘no more pesky regulations’: In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declaring that global warming posed a “clear and present danger” to the United States. But behind the […]
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