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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 20, 20247 Comments

Dems To Pick Up House Seat In Louisiana. Not even the Rethugs had any choice but to support this: Louisiana’s Legislature has passed a new congressional map, brushing off opposition…

DL Open Thread Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

By Alby January 18, 202410 Comments

Are Republicans capable of empathy? As my Magic 8-Ball says, signs point to no. First example: Testimony from a Pennsylvania woman whose son died in a school shooting last year.…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

By Alby January 17, 20249 Comments

What is Israel doing? Is it genocide? Ethnic cleansing? Forced migration? A crime against humanity? Such distinctions don't matter. Even those who support Israel are in agreement: It's wrong. But…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024

By Alby January 16, 202413 Comments

I mentioned this the other day: The media is more interested in narrative than facts. The Iowa caucuses provide a perfect example. Donald Trump won. That's news, but of the…

DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 15, 2024

By Alby January 15, 20249 Comments

As the seige of Gaza reached 100 days over the weekend, Netanyahu said, “No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else."…

Song of the Day 1/14: John Lennon, “Instant Karma!”

By Alby January 14, 2024

Remember Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News blowhard? You probably haven't thought about him in a long time – Fox News 86'd him back in 2017 over his long history of…

DL Open Thread Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024

By Alby January 14, 20247 Comments

For most people the record-breaking heat of 2023 wasn't surprising – only Republicans pretend not to know about global warming – but it was to scientists, because the increase was greater…

DL Open Thread Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024

By Alby January 13, 20243 Comments

It appears the Biden administration is hellbent on implementing the Saudi-Israeli agreements forged under the Trump administration through the efforts of one Brett McGurk (yes, I'm well aware that sounds…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024

By Alby January 10, 20246 Comments

The Israeli attempt to wipe out Hamas has brought widespread condemnation, but since calls on conscience are doing nothing to dissuade Netanyahu from his murderous course. So the focus of…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024

By Alby January 9, 202411 Comments

Some of the aides who flipped on Trumpo gave Jack Smith damning evidence about the traitor's behavior as the attack on the Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6. True to form,…

DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 8, 2024

By Alby January 8, 20246 Comments

Brace yourselves for a tsunsami of Trump-in-court news this week as the human colostomy bag faces deadlines and hearings in three of the legal cases against him. I predict those…

Delaware Political Weekly: Dec. 29, 2023 To Jan. 4, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 5, 2024

1. Where are those year-end campaign finance reports? So glad you asked. Although the reports had to be closed out as of the end of 2023, they can be filed…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

By Alby January 3, 20241 Comment

Gold Bar Bob Menendez used his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to run quite a racket, according to his new federal indictment. It doesn't add any…