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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 15, 2026
The ‘Looksmaxxing Mainstream’. Is this what Michael Jackson was going for?: Clavicular is 6-foot-2, weighs 180 pounds and has a 31-inch waist. His biacromial width — basically the span of the clavicle, from which the 20-year-old streamer gets his name — is 19.5 inches. He has a midface ratio, which is derived by dividing the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
This Is Not Fascism. Right?: The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. In recent months, Google, Reddit, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 13, 2026
The Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Journalists and researchers will spend the next months ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has already emerged. In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 12, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
You Helped Kill The Daedalus Proposal. Along with some great reporters who wouldn’t let go of the story. Sarah Mueller: The idea of Daedalus doing business with either state sparked controversy because company executives are profiting from ICE deportations. The proposal drew widespread attention after activists spotted it on the DRBA’s December meeting agenda. Delaware […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
‘Flooding The Zone’ In The Age Of Trump: FBI Takes Marching Orders From Discredited Conspiracy Theorist: The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026
Total ‘Victory’ Over Climate Change. As in ‘no more pesky regulations’: In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declaring that global warming posed a “clear and present danger” to the United States. But behind the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 9, 2026
Anecdotal Becoming The Empirical, Ctd. There’s only one reason, and it’s not the quality of D candidates, and it’s not that people love the Democratic Party: Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: Feb. 8, 2026
Why the Internet sucks, and what we can do about it. A real deep dive, perfect for a lazy Sunday morning: It’s clear something has gone so wrong. But what do we do about it? My guests today have two theories. Cory Doctorow is a longtime blogger, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 7, 2026
He’s In-SA-A-A-A-A-NE. Trump says portraying Obamas as monkeys wasn’t a mistake: President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, but he insisted he had nothing to apologize for even after he deleted the video following an outcry. The clip, set to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
How Capitalists Killed Capitalism. A ‘Guest Essay’, and I like it: Since Mary Poppins’s day (I spared you the ‘Mary Poppins’ analogy), the financial sector as a whole — investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, cryptocurrency platforms and all the rest of it — has exploded as a share of the United States’ gross […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 5, 2026
For those who missed it, Al (not A I) alerted us to this comment from Sen. Stephanie Hansen re data centers: “Given the growing emphasis on technology and artificial intelligence, it’s clear that data centers are here to stay – and it’s up to us to implement meaningful regulations that balance economic opportunity with energy […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Judges Blister Trump’s Thugs For Blatant Extra-Constitutional Violations: Judge Richard Leon: “A federal judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in the Democratic senator’s case alleging the Pentagon is violating his First Amendment rights through its effort to punish him over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. During a high-stakes […]
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