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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 20, 2025
“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, 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 […]
Don’t Be A Sucker–Trump’s Not Folding On Epstein Files
Not by a long shot. Here’s his latest ‘out’: But here’s the thing: Even if Trump is forced to sign it to keep up the appearance of having dodged a stinging defeat, there’s no reason to think the Justice Department will release anything damaging about Trump. In the short term, no enforcing mechanism exists that […]
State Treasurer’s Office–Ready, Willing…And ABLE?
ABLE are savings accounts to enable people with disabilities to save money without jeopardizing state and Federal means tested benefits (Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, etc), according to those familiar with the program. The program is under the purview of the State Treasurer, who, according to concerned parties, should be promoting the program, but isn’t, and growth […]
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 […]
BREAKING!! Pam Salaam Announces Candidacy For RD 16
The incumbent is the irredeemable ex-cop Franklin Cooke. His only legislative ‘accomplishment’ of note is/was destroying legitimate LEOBOR reform, Which, to be fair, is precisely why fellow ex-cop and then-Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf placed Cooke in a position to do so. Pam Salaam is a beloved figure in the Southbridge community, a community that has both been overlooked […]
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 14, 2025
ICE To Hire Bounty Hunters. Because ‘Fascism’: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to hire bounty hunters and private investigators to track down tens of thousands of immigrants to boost arrests under Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, according to government documents. The agency has an “immediate need” for “skip tracing services,” which could include bounty […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 13, 2025
“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, November 13, 2026
Special Legislative Session Today. And, already it’s weird. The House Agenda is about what we expected: Passage of the legislation enabling the NCC Property tax bills to go out now that the Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed the Chancery Court ruling. Consideration of the bill decoupling Delaware from the federal giveaways to corporations, legislation intended […]
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