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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: January 2025
January can be pretty sparse when it comes to new music. Not this January. Could be a contender for best music month of the year. I’m posting it a couple of days early because I’ve already got seventeen songs. Plus, February’s a short month. Check it out. Before you do, though, for all you new […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Post-Democracy America: Trump Fires Justice Department Prosecutors: Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials yesterday who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump, according to two DOJ officials. At least a dozen people who worked with special counsel Jack Smith received dismissals. It is not clear how many officials involved […]
Delaware’s IT Department Is In Crisis–And No One Is Holding Them Accountable
Guest Post From An Anonymous IT Insider: Technology is more critical than ever in shaping government services. But what is Delaware’s state technology agency, DTI, doing? Unlike Delaware, states like Maryland, Washington, Vermont, and California use public-facing dashboards to track IT project performance and spending, ensuring transparency and accountability. Meanwhile, Delaware’s DTI operates behind closed […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Big Story: Can Matt Meyer And Bryan Townsend Smoke A Peace Pipe (preferably filled with homegrown Delaware herb)? They’re gonna have to. Looks like Meyer will have a pretty significant agenda, including items that he and Townsend have in common. Including the fact that both of them hate the Carney pension giveaway to retired […]
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 […]
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