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DL Open Thread: Friday, January 5, 2024
Trump Violated The Emoluments Clause Of The Constitution. Supreme Court Didn’t Give A Shit: In January 2021, the justices dismissed two cases about then-President Trump’s alleged violations of the Emoluments Clauses, which are the Constitution’s guardrails against presidential corruption. In doing so, the Court forfeited a golden opportunity to clarify just what these mandates mean for […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Jan. 4, 2024
MAGAt Brain Part I: Apparently Delaware Rethugs have concluded that the Scourge Of Electric Cars is their hot button issue. You know, like abortion. Specifically, Mike Ramone. Filed yesterday in Delaware Superior Court: Michael Ramone; Nandi Randolph; Samuel S. Sloan, owner of S&S Auto Repair; Richard G. Collins v. Delaware Department of Natural Resources and […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024
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 new charges, but the details of how Menendez did favors for his wheeler-dealer campaign contributors and foreign governments, including Qatar as well as Egypt, illustrate […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024
Former labor secretary Robert Reich used his year-end column to make a point I’ve long believed: The perception that America’s quality of life is declining is linked to the fact that wealth is increasingly concentrated in fewer hands. In his words, the American Dream is vanishing. Over the past 40 years, the earnings of the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Biden Bypasses Congress, Sends More Lethal Weaponry To Netanyahu: On Friday, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had approved the sale of 155mm projectiles and related equipment valued at $147.5m, an increase from an earlier approved order for tens of thousands of rounds of the heavy artillery […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 30, 2023
Strawberry The Pop-Tart And Jesus: Sacrificing Themselves For The Sake Of Humanity: The Pop-Tart mascot at the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl at Camping World Stadium in Orlando (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) Strawberry’s life was short but sweet. The giant Pop-Tart spent this year’s Pop-Tarts Bowl game in Orlando on Thursday running around referees, almost being licked by […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 29, 2023
The Maine Course. Trump off Maine ballot–for now. Either the Constitution means something, or it doesn’t. El Supremos will decide: “I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” said Bellows, a Democrat, in the decision. “I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023
More Delaware Corruption–Courtesy Of Our Lax LLC Laws. I could muster up more sympathy for the victims were they not using this scheme as a tax dodge: Court-appointed receiver Kelly Campbell had been overseeing this depleted storage facility of First State Depository Co. LLC for the past year, arriving the previous fall with U.S. marshals […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023
Thom Hartmann warns that Trump is following the fascist playbook by goading his supporters to violence. And it wasn’t just WWII-era fascists – Orban is doing the same thing in Hungary today. Story after story tells us that Trump is winning the 2024 presidential race. What they don’t tell you: Those same polls show that […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023
Pope Francis, fresh off his controversial decision to allow the blessing of same-sex relationships, used his Christmas message to take aim at the weapons industry, which means he took aim squarely at the United States, arms merchant to the world, even if he didn’t say so directly. One Democratic congressman from North Jersey illustrates the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 24, 2023
Cris Barrish Chronicles Horror Story Of A Serial Abuser. Despite having been repeatedly beaten and having the tip of her finger bitten off, his wife begs judge not to send him to jail: Police and prosecutors still have not solved the 2019 murder of former Delaware banking executive Benjamin Ledyard’s second wife, but on Friday, […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 23, 2023
Wisconsin Supreme Court Restores Democracy, Overturns Blatantly-Gerrymandered Legislative Maps: MADISON – The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Republican-controlled state Legislature to draw new legislative boundaries ahead of the 2024 election, arguing their GOP advantage is unconstitutional — delivering a long-sought win for Democrats who have stayed deep in the Legislature’s minority for more […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 22, 2023
A Preview Of Our Holiday Programming: Dec. 26: DL’s MVP’s Of 2023 Dec. 26-30: ‘Bulo’s 50 Fave Tunes Of The Year. 10 each day. Dec. 31: 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous. The only look-back on the year in Delaware you will ever need that you’ll want to read. It’s epic(ally long), or will […]
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