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DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 8, 2025

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ICE Thugs Murder Woman In Minneapolis.  Who ya gonna believe–Kristi Noem or your lying eyes?: A hospital record obtained by The Associated Press identified the woman as 37-year-old Renae Macklin-Good, though business records spelled her name as Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Calls and messages to the woman’s family were not immediately returned. In social media […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 7, 2026

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How Crazy Does Trump Have To Be Before Any Democrat Calls For The 25th Amendment?  Check out his antics from yesterday: President Donald Trump forced Republicans Tuesday to sit through a daylong policy event at the Kennedy Center, in which he gave a 90-minute rambling of his half-baked greatest campaign hits. Whether bragging about how […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 6, 2026

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Politicians–Support Data Centers At Your Own Peril: From Archibald, Pennsylvania, to Page, Arizona, tech firms are seeking to plunk down data centers in locations that sometimes are not zoned for such heavy industrial uses, within communities that had not planned for them. These supersized data centers can usurp more energy than entire cities and drain […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, January 5, 2025

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You may have missed it, but we now have our Hitler.  A deranged madman bent on taking over countries aided by a supplicant press and fellow criminals running the government. And destroying anybody who doesn’t belong to the male Aryan race.  Not to mention courts dominated by the madman’s chosen minions.  The Republican Party is […]

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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: January 4, 2026

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Stingless Bees Granted Legal Rights: Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a catalyst for similar moves to protect bees elsewhere. It means that across a broad swathe of the Peruvian Amazon, the rainforest’s long-overlooked native […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025

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While You Were Sleeping–Trump Invaded Venezuela and Arrested Maduro: President Trump said on Saturday that the United States had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and was flying him out of Venezuela, in what would be a stunning culmination to a monthslong campaign by Mr. Trump’s administration to oust the authoritarian leader. Mr. Trump made […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Jan. 1, 2026

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“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 can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 2, 2026

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I have a question to start: We’ve had two notable murders in Delaware over the past two weeks.  When the former owner of the Stone Balloon, who is also the former husband of Jill Biden, has been incarcerated for allegedly murdering his wife right here in Delaware, why hasn’t a single major Delaware news outlet […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 1, 2026

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Trump Declares Defeat In LA, Chicago and Portland: President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, although the troops already had a limited presence becausethe states involved had sued to block their deployment. Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that troops would […]

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Delaware 2025: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 1, 2026 4 Comments

THE GOOD: Jan. 17: Gov. Meyer commits to scaling back windfalls to large corporations.  Says he will focus on small business development instead. March 5:  Gov. Meyer proposes energy reforms, including more power to challenge rate increases.  Both the Governor and the General Assembly ultimately follow through on these proposals. March 7: Delaware Supreme Court […]

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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025

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ICE To Spend $100 Mill To Recruit More Goons: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted advertising campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy it said was critical to […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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Trump’s War On Venezuela Expands.  Shouldn’t, what’s the term I’m looking for, Congress, have a say in this?: The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the […]

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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2025: The Top 10!!

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on December 30, 2025 6 Comments

But first, let us put all of the great tunes in one place for those who have not been breathlessly following along to the Countdown: #’s 50-41 #’s 40-31 #’s 30-21 #’s 20-11 OK, here we go: 10: 9: 8: 7: 6: 5: 4: It was only as I was ordering my Top 10 that […]

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