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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Just Another Day In Dystopia. Education Department Fires 1300 Workers. EPA To Close All Environmental Justice Offices. USAID Workers Ordered To Shred And Burn All Documents. USDA Takes $1 Billion From Kids’ Meals. Meanwhile, House Rethugs pass a horrible ‘continuing resolution’, then leave town, daring Senate Democrats to vote it down. Which they flat-out should […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
A major tip of the sombrero to an intrepid reader, who pointed me to this article (it’s free, but you have to sign up). This is what the corporadems seek to inflict on Delaware: In an effort to appease Elon Musk, Delaware’s Democratic-controlled legislature is expected to vote on a bill this month that would […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Lots happening this week, the least of which is the seating of two undistinguished Corporadems to replace Sarah McBride and Kyle Evans Gay. Their names, like them, are unimportant. Talk about a downgrade. Gonna put the blinkers on and take it one day at a time. Let me first catch everyone up on recently-introduced legislation. […]
A Very Special Pre-Pre-Game Show: Delaware General Assembly, March 2025
Been posting here since 2009. Been doing the General Assembly previews since then. I can’t recall a more uncertain legislative landscape than what we face now. 1. There is no precedent for the upheaval at the federal level. Nobody knows how this will impact the federal flow of money to Delaware, including Governor Meyer. You […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 10, 2025
Trump Won’t Rule Out Recession. Because, you know, he’s not into making predictions. Stock market should love this: Referencing “rising worries about a slowdown,” Ms. Bartiromo asked Mr. Trump: “Are you expecting a recession this year?” “I hate to predict things like that,” Mr. Trump responded. “There is a period of transition, because what we’re […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 9, 2025
Just Another Day In Amerika. Guess who gets to see the child support database: The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Fascists Take Over. Dems Fret About–Decorum. Why Dems Suck: Item Infinity Plus Two: Ten Democrats joined with House Republicans on Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green for his protest during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress this week — a formal condemnation of the Texas Democrat’s actions. Divergent tactics were on full display during the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 7, 2025
Gavin Newsom Announces That ‘Teh Trans’ Won’t Get In The Way Of His Presidential Ambitions. Cynical political calculation at its worst, announced by Newsom on a right-wing show, BTW: Gavin Newsom’s provocative new position on trans athletes on Thursday reopened a rift in the Democratic Party that could serve as one of the earliest flash […]
Sen. Bryan Townsend Has A Big Fat Conflict-Of-Interest
He’s not only the prime sponsor of SB 21, he is the chief advocate on behalf of it. The legislation changes corporate law governing the Court Of Chancery. If you’re not familiar, here is a balanced piece on the bill. There are legal heavyweights who both support and oppose the bill. While I oppose the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Why Dems Suck: Item Infinity Plus One. Have you ever noticed that, when Dems select someone to respond to a Trump speech, they find someone so inoffensive that nobody could possibly be inspired by what they say? Enter Sen. Elissa Slotkin: And to her credit, Slotkin reminded people that Elon Musk is an unaccountable über-bureaucrat […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Didn’t watch the speech. If any of you subjected yourselves to that unpaid commercial, please comment. Russia: America Is No Longer The Evil Empire. Gee, wonder what brought about that change…: Almost overnight, it’s Europe — not the United States — that has become the source of instability in the Russian narrative. On his marquee […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Dems Suck. Third Way Dems Really Suck. Because they’re not Dems: A group of centrist Democrats is being mocked and criticized for their new strategy to defeat Donald Trump and Republicans. Earlier this month, the centrist think tank Third Way gathered the group, which included Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials, and party leaders, in […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 3, 2025
Canceled my Delaware Online subscription, divvied up the monthly cost, and started sending it monthly to Friendship House and Ministry of Caring. My wife’s idea, and a great one. Tried to cancel my Washington Post subscription, only to be told that it won’t expire until January of 2026. I call bullshit, they haven’t heard the […]
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