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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
“Work Expands To Fill Time Allotted.” This applies to the final June session-weeks every single year. It holds true this year. And certainly for today. 20 bills on today’s House Agendas, 10 bills on the Senate Agenda, plus committee meetings both Tuesday and Wednesday. The House is exclusively working House bills today, with the exception […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 16, 2025
Trump To VA–‘You Don’t Have To Treat Vets You Don’t Like’. I can’t make this stuff up: Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 15, 2025
Brian Wilson created some of the most beautiful music ever to be heard on earth. Music that could not possibly have been written by anybody else. Music that will be loved and studied for as long as the earth is habitable. He belongs in the pantheon of great composers, period. Case in point-one of the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 14, 2025
What are you doing today? Going to a No Kings event? Watching the parade? Both? It seems like a momentous day, just hope it’s not too momentous. Protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, Trump views this as his elevation to the post of Supreme Leader. Me? I’m rooting for a deluge and perhaps a well-placed bolt of lightning. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 13, 2025
Fascism On The MARCH! Let’s handcuff a United States Senator Edition: When U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it was almost as if Donald Trump’s most well-worn talking point came to life: A bad hombre tried to go after a white American. All […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Virtually all the action took place in committee meetings. Except for the Speaker’s ongoing stonewalling (see the Open Thread for particulars). Today’s House Agenda features HB 54 (Morrison), which creates and funds an Office Of Suicide Prevention. With plenty of bipartisan sponsorship, the bill will be on its way […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Mimi Minor-Brown Stonewalls Press On Stell Parker-Selby’s Absence. So Does Staff: https://www.coasttv.com/news/exclusive-house-speaker-refuses-to-answer-coasttvs-questions-on-stell-parker-selby/video_a7d5c11a-8dc0-5efd-9ebf-d09f0ec65f36.html https://www.coasttv.com/news/exclusive-no-votes-no-answers-selby-s-absence-raises-legal-and-ethical-questions/video_2a6837ec-1752-5cff-b19e-a9610eb631cb.html That’s the Mimi Minor-Brown I know first-hand. BTW, the tall gentleman in the second video accompanying her? That’s the Sergeant-At-Arms who got in my face at the County Democratic Convention. Perhaps it’s just me, but what I saw on those videos is, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
That was a real productive day in Dover on Tuesday. I was very impressed with how Stephanie Hansen floor-managed SB 159, which helps pave the way for a wind renewable energy project. Old-timers (like me) were familiar with the outraged ‘home-rule’ bleats emanating from Suxco’s worst. Longtime former Sussex County Rep Charlie West, who was […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Week That Trump Went Full Fascist. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say we’re now in a new Civil War. Troops attack blue states under false pretenses, Trump girds for his military parade. Opposition worries about ‘woke’ (Perhaps they’re in late-night session trying to come up with language decrying the waving of Mexican flags). […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Yep, Trump’s Deporting Folks Without Due Process. Courts be damned: As protests over workplace raids in California’s largest city continued Monday and the Pentagon announced it would be sending 700 Marines to backstop National Guard troops, immigration lawyers, advocates and relatives were scrambling to find information about those detained. Mexico’s foreign minister said four immigrants […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
“Now the race is on, and here comes pride down the backstretch, heartache is movin’ to the inside.” And the winner loses all? I report, you decide. June in Dover is a race run in fits and starts–some of the fits thrown by legislators. Some of the starts false. Broken up by interminable caucuses (cauci?). […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 9, 2025
“ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACEMASKS NOW!”. Trump on Truth Social. Isn’t that what the protestors are calling for as well? The Needless Confrontation Trump Wanted, Perhaps Needed: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the federal action “purposefully inflammatory” and said that it would “only escalate tensions.” The governor also noted this deployment of soldiers is “not […]
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