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DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 25, 2022
Yes, Virginia, There Really Was a Festivus. Even A ‘Festivus For The Rest Of Us‘: (Seinfeld writer) O’Keefe said years later, “I mean this in the nicest way possible: My father was an undiagnosed bipolar, severe alcoholic who nonetheless was extremely high-functioning.” His father, Daniel O’Keefe, was an editor for Reader’s Digest who “came from […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 24, 2022
I know it’s the day before Christmas. I know that many of our daily readers will be away and will not be reading this. But you never know. This could be the greatest DL Open thread ever. (Granted, unlikely.) Could you forgive yourselves if you missed it? Didn’t think so. Was Cassidy Hutchinson The Only […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022
Jan. 6 Panel To Congress: Bar Trump From Running Again: The committee’s recommendations largely deal with how best to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the Jan. 6 attack, reflecting the report’s broader focus on the former president’s conduct. The report notes that the 14th Amendment allows barring people from office who “engaged in […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 22, 2022
Good news!: The days will start getting a little longer from now on. Just thought you’d like to know…hang in there. Who Created ‘Libs Of TikTok’? Confession: I’d never heard of it until I read the article, but it’s an anti-LGBTQ Twitter account that has had the likes of Fox and Joe Rogan amplifying its […]
Announcing DL’s 2022 MVP’s (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause In Delaware)!
Perhaps more than ever, the order of these choices shouldn’t matter much, if at all. Progressivism is growing stronger every year in Delaware, and everybody on this list has played a part. Along with those who I’ve missed, and who I encourage you to mention. Having said that, here goes: 10. Brandon Toole. Not so […]
BREAKING: Nicole Poore OUT As Bond Bill Chair
Sen. Dave Sokola has released the Senate committee assignments for the upcoming session. Quite a bit of news here. Since I couldn’t find the release on the Senate site, I got it from the Delaware State News (h/t to one of our spies). While Nicole Poore is still on the Bond Bill Committee, she no […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they have in 20 years, with employee rights and job security being the second and third reasons for labor organizing. But unions aren’t the only route […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 17, 2022
How A Walk In The Park Became Putin’s War. Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities…: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers […]
A REAL Commercial I Saw On TV JUST NOW!
I will say no more about it. Just watch. You will not be disappointed:
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 16, 2022
Latest Muskmare: Investigative Reporters Tossed Off Twitter. For allegedly telling people where the ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ was. Which wasn’t true: Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 15, 2022
AG’s Office Concludes That Fort DuPont Redevelopment Corporation Broke Law. Tip of the sombrero to one of our fave tipsters: “The petitions allege that the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation (“FDRPC”) violated FOIA by not responding to two FOIA requests seeking records relating to financial audits of the FDRCP. This correspondence serves as a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
We’re back. Didn’t know what happened to Jason–until I got that ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcard from Hawaii. Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the Delaware Liberal treasury (which wouldn’t have gotten him as far as Marcus Hook)? Anyway, he’s OK, but we’ve put him in ‘time-out’ for the day. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Pa. Rethugs Lose Election–Try To Steal It In Court. By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court late Friday to prevent voters from filling three vacant seats in February that will determine majority control of the chamber. Rep. Bryan Cutler of Lancaster, […]
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