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DL Open Thread: Monday, January 27, 2025
War With Colombia Averted! Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation flights from the United States. The two nations had spent much of the day in a tense standoff, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 6: Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries, many of whom worked in his first administration to weaken climate and pollution protections. Top appointees include David Fotouhi, Mr. Zeldin’s second-in-command, a lawyer […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 24, 2025
Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural… W-wait. That can’t be, it must be an optical illusion. You know, like, what’s it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps? Perhaps this is the Meyer Inaugural? No, the Lady In Red was nowhere in sight there. Somebody’s gonna have to help me here, but isn’t that Bethany […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Spotlight Delaware has today’s Big Story–aka Bethany Hall Long proves herself to be a political hack to the very end. I had seen the nominations to the Wilmington Port Corporation Board a couple of days ago, just assumed that Matt Meyer had made them–although I couldn’t believe he’d let Jeff Bullock anywhere near the site […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Post-Democratic America Day–Day Three. Federal civil rights cases quashed? Check. Science silenced? Check. Career National Security Staff sent home? Check. The real Trump Bible is Project 2025. Oh, well, at least we have some comic relief: When Oligarchs Clash: Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 22, 2025
The Big News: Senate Executive Committee Starts Three Days Of Hearings On Gov. Meyer’s Nominees. I’ll link to the schedules for the nominees later in this article. But, first, yesterday’s Session Activity Report. SB 11 (Townsend), the second leg of a Constitutional Amendment addressing bail reform, unanimously passed in the Senate. I’ve listened to the […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Post-Democratic America–Day Two: Turn Department Of Justice Into Department Of Retribution? Check: New acting leaders at the Justice Department moved quickly to shuffle at least 20 career officials, according to sources. Those include senior lawyers in the national security division, which in the past has been insulated from shifting political winds, and international affairs, which […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
BREAKING: Delaware’s Division Of Social Services Opens Warming Stations. From today through Friday to provide relief from the frigid temperatures: Due to the extreme cold temperatures some of our DSS locations will have “warming stations” available Tuesday-Friday 9:00 am-3:30 pm. This is similar to our cooling stations from the summer. The warming stations will be […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The Big News takes place outside of Leg Hall today as Matt Meyer takes the oath of office as Governor, and Kyle Evans Gay takes the oath of office as Lieutenant Governor. The ceremony will be held indoors at Delaware State University due to the frigid temperatures. Hmmm, I wonder if Kyle will make it […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 20, 2025
OK, kids, we need to talk. At least, I need to talk. For my mental health, I simply can’t/won’t cover every shitty thing that Trump and his malefactors will do during the next four years. No, this won’t be a Trump-Free Zone, but four years of highlighting his misdeeds accomplished nothing here. So, if you’d […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 19, 2025
From Men To Boys–Those Billionaires And Their Hormones: Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast to lament the absence of “masculine energy” in the corporate world. “I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” Zuckerberg said during his nearly three-hour conversation with Rogan, adding, “Masculine […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 18, 2025
Sad. MAGAts And Donors Must Watch Inauguration–On A Jumbotron: Now, instead of hundreds of thousands of Trump voters gathering at the U.S. Capitol to watch their president begin his second term, they’ll instead be ushered to the Capital One Arena about a mile away where they can watch from … a jumbotron. We might as […]
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