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DE’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #8–RD 3
First things first. Sherry Dorsey Walker, who is running for Lt. Governor and is vacating this seat, doesn’t suck. Although she didn’t get much signed into law, she is the sponsor of HS1/HB 191, which passed the House during the Rethug boycott, and could well pass the Senate early in 2024. The bill requires landlords […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The Fulton County grand jury threw the book at Trump, and the book is “Treason for Dummies.” They also lodged charges against 18 other defendants, most notably Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and the rest of Trump’s collection of crooked lawyers. The dragnet also nailed some of the conspiracy’s fake electors, plus a clutch of shitbags […]
Looks Like Trump (And Perhaps Others) Has Been Indicted RIGHT NOW.
In Georgia. Live on TV. It appears that the paperwork has been delivered to the court, and the judge will read the indictments tonight. Papers have just been handed to the judge. Sound is on. Here we go!: Grand Jury has returned 10 indictments. All proposed indictments to the Grand Jury were voted on, and […]
The Occasional Delaware Political Weekly: August 14, 2023
1. Great Challenger Files Against, Wait For It–Bill Bush! I’ve always sensed that Bush was more or less installed in that position by Delaware Way movers and shakers, led by Lonnie George. You’ll recall that Bush was the guy on the Del-Tech board who sunk the career educator the Board had nominated to succeed George. […]
DL Open Thread Monday, August 14, 2023
Are conservatives just, well, stupid? Science says yes. Now watch the comments fill up with people determined to demonstrate it. The death toll of the Maui wildfire continues to climb (it stood at 93 as I compiled this, but roughly 1,000 people are unaccounted for). It already is among the half-dozen deadliest wildfires in U.S. […]
DL Style Guide Update
“Climate Change Disaster” to Replace “wild fire” “flood” etc. eg. LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — As the death toll from a CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER that razed a historic Maui town reached 93, authorities warned Saturday that the effort to find and identify the dead was still in its early stages. It’s already the deadliest U.S. CLIMATE […]
How do we legally commit treason?
That seems to be the question Trump’s “crackpot” lawyers were groping for in the days leading up to Jan 6th. Unlike the founding fathers who were all in on the idea that losing meant losing literally everything – Trump and his lawyers wanted a more gentile treason that could be enforced by use of the […]
Good. Fuck the fuck off then.
Joe Manchin Says He’s ‘Thinking Seriously’ About Leaving The Democratic Party West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D) says he is seriously thinking about ditching the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent before the 2024 election. In a recent chat with West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval, Manchin said that he’s not thrilled with how the […]
This is elder abuse. Get her out of the Senate
Dianne Feinstein went to the hospital after a ‘minor fall’ at … WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., fell at home Tuesday and visited the hospital to get checked out, her office said.
Shorter Trump: My accusers are black
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is about to drop more than a dozen indictments dealing with Trump’s attempts overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump’s defense? Fani Willis is a black woman who associates with known black people. Which should actually be very convincing argument for many Republicans. DURING A TUESDAY campaign […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday Aug 9 2023
Shakespeare deemed too raunchy for Florida Schools. Just wait until someone from the Start Board of Ed gets around to reading the Bible Hillsborough County in Florida has informed educators they are only allowed to teach specific excerpts of William Shakespeare’s works due to new state laws restricting certain discussions in class. The county school […]
Judge Aileen Cannon’s “out-of-district” question was so legally bonkers, a former prosecutor went digging to find out where it came from. Spoiler: It was on Fox News the previous day
Fox News rules their world. Trump judge in docs case makes misguided argument curiously similar to Fox News guest: Weissmann Andrew Weissmann, former federal prosecutor, talks with Alex Wagner about the remarkably ill-informed challenge by Judge Aileen Cannon of Justice Department procedure in the Donald Trump classified documents case, and its curious similarity to an […]
Song of the Day 8/8: Run-DMC, “You Talk Too Much”
Who is this song from Run-DMC’s second album about? They never specify, but the seminal hip-hop trio hails from Queens, and they address the target of their scorn as “homie” … say, you don’t think… Donald Trump had established himself as a public nuisance by the time “King of Rock” was released in 1985. He […]
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