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BREAKING: Pot Bills To Become Law Without Carney’s Signature
The story: Gov. John Carney on Friday said he would let the bills to legalize marijuana and create a recreational industry become law without his signature, standing down from his aversions to recreational weed that put him at odds with his party. Delaware is the 22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana, after a nearly decades […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 21, 2023
Fox To Pay For Dominion Settlement With–Higher Cable Fees? If they can get away with it, yes: These fees are the majority of revenue for Fox, more even than advertising, and they are significantly higher than those charged by the network’s competitors. Fox has been able to raise prices and charge disproportionately high rates due […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Senate Democrats Give Away Power To Rethugs. Dick Durbin could simply announce the end of the blue slip in response to the Rethug refusal to seat a replacement for Dianne Feinstein, but no-o-o-o-o: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday that he’s still holding out hope that Republicans can find […]
Just Like That, It’s Over
There will be no Fox-Dominion trial. The parties have settled: Fox News has agreed to settle the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed against the network over its broadcast of lies aimed at undercutting public confidence in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The network and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to an undisclosed settlement Tuesday, just […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 16,2023
Anti-Abortion Judge Hid Off-The Wall Screed From Senate During Confirmation: In 2017, Matthew Kacsmaryk, then deputy general counsel at the right-wing First Liberty Institute, criticized protections for transgender people and those seeking abortions in a draft law review article. The Obama administration, he wrote, was ignoring doctors who, for religious reasons, “cannot use their scalpels […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Have you figured out that, if John Carney does nothing on the pot bills, HB 1 will become law next Saturday? Quietly becomes law as Carney does what he does best: Nothing. For once, a do-nothing governor would be a plus. Mike Pompeo Says He Won’t Run For President. Nobody cares. DeSantis, On Book […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 14, 2023
How This 21-Year-Old Guy Leaked US Military Secrets To The World: A friend who spoke with The Post described Teixeira as patriotic, a devout Catholic and a libertarian with an interest in guns and doubts about America’s future. The leaked documents included the whereabouts and movements of high-ranking political leaders and tactical updates on military […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 13, 2023
Rethug Judges Giveth, Taketh Away. Modify Kaszmaryk’s abortion pill ruling, but push to halt access to the pill: In its order, the appellate panel said the F.D.A.’s approval of mifepristone could stand because too much time had passed for the plaintiffs, a consortium of groups and doctors opposed to abortion, to challenge that decision. The […]
Meredith Newman Commits Journalism
ProPublica-caliber journalism right here in the News-Journal. We’re talking malign neglect–in assisted living facilities–and in the disgraceful response by the budget-smoothing lackeys of the Carney Administration. Read the piece, if you can (the work of the 3 or 4 legit reporters on staff is why I subscribe). Newman first frames the story through the eyes […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 9, 2023
The Trump Twenty? According to the NYT, about 20 people have been informed by the Fulton County (Ga.) DA that they are targets of a criminal investigation: In Georgia, however, there is another criminal investigation of Mr. Trump nearing completion, this one also led by a local prosecutor, Fani T. Willis of Fulton County. While […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 8, 2023
The Good Friday Massacre: Is anyone still complacent about democracy?: The highly anticipated and unprecedented ruling from Texas puts on hold the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which was cleared for use in the United States in 2000. It was the first time a judge suspended longtime FDA approval of a medication despite […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 7, 2023
They Can’t DO This In America–Except They Did: Tennessee’s House of Representatives on Thursday expelled two Democratic members who participated in a gun control protest following the mass shooting at a Nashville grade school. Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been stripped of their titles and legislative responsibilities, an extraordinary development in the GOP-led […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 6, 2023
You know those red Solo plastic cups that are ubiquitous and omnipresent? They are the biggest-selling product of Dart Container, makers of landfill, um, fillers: Dart Container Corporation — not to be confused with DART, the Delaware Transit Corporation — will be the first tenant in the Delaware Logistics Center in New Castle near Delaware […]
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