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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 11, 2025
John Bolton Next To Face Trumped-Up Charges?: The acting U.S. Attorney in Maryland is moving forward quickly to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to two people familiar with the case. A complaint or an indictment could come as early as next week, said the sources, who […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 10, 2025
Did Nepotism Influence Gov. Meyer’s Agreement (and/or surrender) With Christiana Care? The question becomes more germane as Mediawatch uncovered this potential conflict-of-interest for us. Dr. Cooksey is Matt Meyer’s wife. It’s not the only action that Meyer has taken that raises questions, though. Remember this? That’s right. Meyer’s two appointments to the Hospital Cost Review […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 9, 2025
While Trump tries To stake his claim to the Nobel Peace Prize (Spoiler Alert–he’s not getting it), the Big Story remains that Our Demented President Wages War On American Cities. Months ago, Donald Trump claimed that Los Angeles “would be burning” if not for the federal troops he was sending there. On Sunday, in a similarly […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 5, 2025
Coffee, Cheese, Wine: Nature’s Most Essential Foods? Or just my most essential foods?: Coffee: Coffee growers are dealing with a lot right now. Most immediately, the Trump administration’s tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production. In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can’t […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Trump To Deport 300,000 Venezuelans: The Supreme Court said Friday the Trump administration can for now strip temporary protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, pausing a federal judge’s order saying officials had acted improperly on the issue. The justices wrote in a brief, unsigned order that the case was fundamentally […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 3, 2025
The Knee-Jerks Didn’t Like This: The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among antiabortion leaders. The approval of the drug on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Health and Human Services […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Gonna have to make this quick –Delmarva is doing maintenance work, and we’ll be w/o power starting at 8 am. I’ve poured myself a double (shot of TJ’s Cold Brew), so I should at least be semi-lucid. President Will Make Blue States Suffer During Shutdown. Hey, he’s already fighting the new Civil War, if you, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Welcome, Blue Delaware Reader(s?)! Y’know, I used to joke that, in those rare instances when we broke a story over here, Blue Delaware would have it in 3-2-1, without attribution. Guess I’ve gotta come up with a new joke. That guy was a serial plagiarizer, presumably because he never came up with even a sentence […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The Real Reason Trump Invaded Portland: Portland authorities are in a standoff with the Trump administration over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in the Oregon city, after an investigation found the administration is using the facility for overnight detentions, in violation of its city-issued permits. The standoff comes amid threats from Donald […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 29, 2025
I think that Trump’s madness is hitting critical mass. This might well be the week when enough people wake up and realize that he is utterly unfit to be President. There are just too many signs of his descent into insanity for even the press, and perhaps, Rethugs, to ignore. I’m serious. Pretty sure the first Trump […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 28, 2025
How To Grow Your Own Meat (Not A Penile Enlargement Come-On): The Shojinmeat Project helps people grow their own meat, almost like a plant, without an animal having to die. It’s called cultivated meat, and it’s made by taking a few animal cells and helping them grow in a tank called a bioreactor. It’s real […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 27, 2025
A Very Special Absolute Corruption Edition: Trump Fired US Attorney For Following The Law: For 15 years, Michele Beckwith oversaw some of the toughest federal prosecutions in California. She went after transnational terrorists, sex traffickers and the Aryan brotherhood. She became the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento this year when her boss, a Biden appointee, stepped down […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 26, 2025
Trump Prosecutes Political Enemies. Remember the events–prosecutor declines to go after Comey and Letitia James because the cases are either weak or non-existent. Trump fires him, replaces him with someone with no prosecutorial experience: A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless demand […]
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