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DL Open Thread: Monday, November 24, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 24, 202512 Comments

Births And Deaths By The Numbers: A statistician's treasure trove. The good news? White births can't keep up with white deaths: It’s a winter phenomenon because births tend to surge…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 23, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 23, 202511 Comments

Long-time readers know that I am a Sondheim fanatic. I think he's our Shakespeare. He is the first among equals on my musical Mt. Rushmore (along with Curtis Mayfield, Joni…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 22, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 22, 20253 Comments

You Didn't Think The Supreme Court Would Stop That Texas Gerrymander, Did You? The Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily allowed Texas to use its newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional voting…

DL Open Thread: Friday, November 21, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 21, 20256 Comments

AYFKM? Delaware River And Bay Propping Up ICE Airlines? Once again, Brianna Hill has written a story that makes me angry: Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing…

Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 20, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 21, 202511 Comments

“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…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 20, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 20, 20256 Comments

Absolute Corruption: Kyle Lutnick, the 29-year-old scion of his family’s real estate business, traveled in July to Amarillo, Texas, to walk a dusty tract of land with the head of…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 19, 20258 Comments

Welcome To Avelo, 'America's Most Famous Deportation Airline'. Apparently, also America's most dangerous deportation airline: In a memo to staff on October 30, Avelo Airlines’ head of flight operations Scott…

Don’t Be A Sucker–Trump’s Not Folding On Epstein Files

By El Somnambulo November 18, 20251 Comment

Not by a long shot. Here's his latest 'out': But here’s the thing: Even if Trump is forced to sign it to keep up the appearance of having dodged a…

State Treasurer’s Office–Ready, Willing…And ABLE?

By El Somnambulo November 18, 20252 Comments

ABLE are savings accounts to enable people with disabilities to save money without jeopardizing state and Federal means tested benefits (Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, etc), according to those familiar with the…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 18, 20255 Comments

NCC Council Debates Dueling Data Center Proposals. Featuring 'Kilpatrick's Revenge': The New Castle County Council now faces competing proposals to regulate the emerging data center industry. On Monday, Councilwoman Janet…

DL Open Thread: Monday, November 17, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 17, 20255 Comments

Ya Wanna Be The Senate Democratic Leader? You say things like this every day: Sen. Chris Murphy: “He wouldn’t be acting this way if he wasn’t so deeply worried about…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 16, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 16, 2025

Big Tech Wants Your Brain. Meaning, yes, Elon Musk wants your brain: Advances in optogenetics, a scientific technique that uses light to stimulate or suppress individual, genetically modified neurons, could…

BREAKING!! Pam Salaam Announces Candidacy For RD 16

By El Somnambulo November 15, 20251 Comment

The incumbent is the irredeemable ex-cop Franklin Cooke. His only legislative 'accomplishment' of note is/was destroying legitimate LEOBOR reform, Which, to be fair, is precisely why fellow ex-cop and then-Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf…