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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving! Made even better b/c my daughter and son-in-law are now hosting, and that we’re having pulled pork, not turkey. BTW, you never know–you might want to read b/c this could be the best Open Thread I ever wrote…not likely, but still: Two Guardsmen Shot In DC–The story is unusual, to say the least. As […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Has Al (Not A I) used Ballroom Blitz yet?: President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2025
Batshit-Crazy Defense Secretary ‘Investigates’ Senator/Military Veteran For ‘Sedition’: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into Mark Kelly after purportedly receiving “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Democratic senator from Arizona — an extraordinary use of authority to investigate a combat veteran and prominent critic of the Trump administration. The announcement Monday follows a video posted […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 24, 2025
Births And Deaths By The Numbers: A statistician’s treasure trove. The good news? White births can’t keep up with white deaths: It’s a winter phenomenon because births tend to surge in August and slow to a crawl in February, while deaths — as we’ve previously found — soar in winter and slump in summer. But […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 23, 2025
Long-time readers know that I am a Sondheim fanatic. I think he’s our Shakespeare. He is the first among equals on my musical Mt. Rushmore (along with Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell and Thelonious Monk). I plead guilty to proselytizing on his behalf on this blog. Why? Because I think that people would love his work […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 22, 2025
You Didn’t Think The Supreme Court Would Stop That Texas Gerrymander, Did You? The Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily allowed Texas to use its newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional voting map for the 2026 midterm elections. The decision blocked, for now, a lower-court ruling that had said Texas could not use the map. Justice Samuel […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 21, 2025
AYFKM? Delaware River And Bay Propping Up ICE Airlines? Once again, Brianna Hill has written a story that makes me angry: Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for operating deportation flights for the Trump […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Absolute Corruption: Kyle Lutnick, the 29-year-old scion of his family’s real estate business, traveled in July to Amarillo, Texas, to walk a dusty tract of land with the head of an artificial intelligence start-up called Fermi America. He was touring the site of a future data center with Toby Neugebauer, a billionaire who is building […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Welcome To Avelo, ‘America’s Most Famous Deportation Airline’. Apparently, also America’s most dangerous deportation airline: In a memo to staff on October 30, Avelo Airlines’ head of flight operations Scott Hall painted a rosy, if defensive, picture of the company’s future. Avelo’s financial strategy was working, he said. The company had a big contract from […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
NCC Council Debates Dueling Data Center Proposals. Featuring ‘Kilpatrick’s Revenge’: The New Castle County Council now faces competing proposals to regulate the emerging data center industry. On Monday, Councilwoman Janet Kilpatrick introduced legislation that would defang many of the rules proposed within a pending data center ordinance, including those around noise and energy efficiency. The […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 17, 2025
Ya Wanna Be The Senate Democratic Leader? You say things like this every day: Sen. Chris Murphy: “He wouldn’t be acting this way if he wasn’t so deeply worried about what sits in those files…Clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex ring.” That is heartbreaking—that the president of the United States […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 16, 2025
Big Tech Wants Your Brain. Meaning, yes, Elon Musk wants your brain: Advances in optogenetics, a scientific technique that uses light to stimulate or suppress individual, genetically modified neurons, could allow scientists to “write” the brain as well, potentially altering human understanding and behavior. Optogenetic implants are already able to partially restore vision to patients […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Absolute Corruption: On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.” Noem has hailed the […]
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