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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 26, 2022
Don’t Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do? ‘Some’ argue against using the term ‘progressive’: But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies a certain level of comfort with the idea that history is guided by a hidden hand and somehow moves in a way that makes each […]
My Influencers
I’ve been aware of electoral politics since I was four. My father ran as a Republican for New Castle County Sheriff in 1958. The Delaware Democratic party was still a Dixecrat party and Black registrations did not begin to switch over in any numbers until the JFK race. Anyway, I remember the rush when the […]
Larry’s Been Lyin’–BIG Time!
A. I understand that ex-cops struggle with Prevarication Withdrawal. All those years of lying to people they pull over, lying to suspects, lying on the witness stand, make it difficult, in some cases impossible, to return to a world where telling the truth matters. B. I also understand how politicians are prone to embellish their […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Student Debt Forgiveness: More Creeping Incrementalism From Biden. Did you expect anything–more?: The Biden administration has already approved nearly $32 billion in loan forgiveness to 1.6 million people through targeted actions for disabled borrowers and those defrauded by their colleges. But Biden had drawn the ire of activists and some student loan borrowers who were […]
Deb Heffernan’s Updated Financial Campaign Report Tells You Everything You Need To Know
This is the update that, had it been up to Deb, and hadn’t been demanded by Nancy Willing, would have remained hidden from the public until 8 days out. Let’s just see which miscreants ponied up at that fundraiser: Brian DiSabatino: $300 Building & Construction Trades: $600 Delaware Restaurant Association (those folks who really fought […]
Return The Dark Money, Larry!
Rethuglican Dark Money at that. Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell, who is in a neck-and-neck primary battle with DeShanna Neal, just received an influx of dark money from LLC’s that, by definition, can hide behind their corporate status. In this case, the money came from a single ‘address’, 100 Rockland Falls Road, DE 19732. Here are […]
Deb Heffernan Touts Polluters’ Endorsements To Claim She Is An…Environmentalist?
Not just endorsements, but a major award from the polluters. Very reminiscent of Carney getting that award from the Chamber and carrying their water for eight years. But, I digress. Let’s first hear from Deb in her own words: “I’m truly honored by the Chemical Industry Council Of Delaware for naming me their first Champion Of […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Could Pipelines Be Part Of The CO2 Capture Solution? It’s…complicated: Designed to increase the flow of some of the world’s dirtiest oil, the Dakota Access Pipeline became a poignant symbol of the United States’ failure to enact a serious, long-term national plan to stop adding heat-trapping gasses to the atmosphere. It galvanized a worldwide climate […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 20, 2022
There’s No DeJoy In Gasville. Although the rogue head of the Post Office could still insist on a modicum of gas guzzlers: The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of zero-emission delivery trucks, plus $1.71 billion […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 19, 2022
How Russian Spies Misread Ukraine And Misled the Kremlin. Faulty intelligence is not, as it turns out, the exclusive domain of the U. S.: KYIV, Ukraine —In the final days before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s security service began sending cryptic instructions to informants in Kyiv. Pack up and get out of the capital, the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Trump Goes After FBI. Trying to attack the most culturally-conservative, white Christian, Fed agency is kinda ironic: Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the entire U.S. government. It’s an institution so culturally conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that Democratic presidents have […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Why Does Mayor Mike Hate Wilmington’s Citizens? I mean, some of its citizens, the ones who don’t live in the Highands. We’re taking about selective towing, aka ‘takings’. The legal issue of ‘can they do it’ is one thing, the question of ‘why would they do it’ is another. We all know the answer, don’t […]
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