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DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025
A Cardinal Fan?: Photo: The White House The Musk Myth As Kabuki Theatre? Howzabout a little schadenfreude to start your day?: It’s ornate. It’s stylized. It’s ritualized. And like all Kabuki, it is not meant to reflect reality—it is meant to perform power. But now, the performance is faltering. The cast is walking offstage. The […]
The New Castle County Democratic Convention
Well. That was quite the morning. Let me just say that I might be an unreliable narrator here, since I was there as a participant. And, yes, I won’t bury one of the ledes: I did shout at the Speaker of the House. We’ll get to that. Today’s convention was scheduled to approve proposed rules […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 2, 2025
Trump Judge Declares Trump Deportation Policy Illegal: A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants. US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez said Donald Trump’s use of the wartime power was “unlawful” and had been improperly invoked. The law was written in 1798 to allow […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Satire Is Dead: Port Of Wilmington Edition. General Assembly creates a task force with no legal authority, ‘Honorables’ feign anger when Governor’s people don’t show up: The inaugural meeting on Wednesday of a port oversight task force that lawmakers had created over objections from Gov. Matt Meyer became the latest front in a months-long power […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
I’ve (largely) avoided MSNBC and (completely) avoided polling since the election. However, as Trump hits the 100-day-in-office mark, I compromise on my principles, if only just this once: This only matters if, you know, elections still take place. Which is ‘to be determined’. Problem is, he’s done so much bad stuff that it won’t simply […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: April 2025
Lots of discoveries this month, along with some long-time faves. And short-time faves. My kind of month: Owww!: Discovered this band last year. One reason I do this is to discover bands like this: By far my fave from his new album. I think one of his best songs ever: Another cool discovery from Out […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Trump Unites Canada: Prime Minister Mark Carney led his Liberal Party to a narrow victory in Canada’s pivotal election on Monday, securing a fourth term in power for the party and a renewed mandate to lead the fight against President Trump over trade and the nation’s sovereignty. Mr. Carney, a former central banker who was […]
The Increasingly Less-Infrequent Delaware Political Weekly Which Still Doesn’t Appear Weekly: Late April 2025
1. Gotta lead with the upcoming school board elections. If, for no other reason, because thereby hangs a tale featuring arguably Delaware’s most-unqualified candidate for elective office. The school board elections take place on Tuesday, May 13. You can find out specifics about the races in your districts here. Although I remain skeptical of their […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 28, 2025
More Of This, Please: In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign. “Paramount began to supervise our content in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 27, 2025
‘Kid Has Stage 4 Cancer? Let Honduras Deal With It’: Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Trump Judge Draws Line At Deporting 2-Year-Old With ‘No Meaningful Process’. We’re talking about a judge who frustrated Biden at every turn: A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 25, 2025
The National Democratic Party Sucks Multitudes. I thought the new Chair was the same old, same old. Now I know the new Chair is the same old, same old: Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, has announced a proposal requiring party officials to remain neutral in primary elections, challenging activist David Hogg […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Everything’s For Sale: President Donald Trump raised a record $239 million for his 2025 inauguration celebrations, propelled by contributions from corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals — including more than a dozen people Trump has nominated to a variety of roles in his administration. Donors to his inaugural committee included picks for ambassadorships, members of Trump’s Cabinet […]
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