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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Fourth Estate Becomes The Fourth Reich. Presenting The Brand-New Pentagon Press Corps: Nearly one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials after refusing to sign a new restrictive press policy, the Defense Department announced a “new media” press corps, largely hailing from right-wing outlets. The 60 peoplefrom various news […]
Song of the Day 10/22: Ryan Adams, “Breakdown”
Ryan Adams, the prolific singer-songwriter and producer whose career was derailed by a #metoo scandal in the Before Times, has long been notorious for odd behavior in concerts – aborting songs halfway through, playing entire shows with his back to the audience, berating hecklers – but his recent tour Down Under has brought on another […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
John Carney’s First Veto Reinforces Whose Side He’s On. It’s, uh, not on the side of renters with unresponsive landlords: Last week, Wilmington Mayor John Carney announced he would veto a bill to establish a city-run escrow account for renters to deposit payments they had withheld from landlords. Now, Councilmembers Christian Willauer, Shané Darby, and […]
Trump Demands DOJ Pay Him $230 Mill For Investigating Him
And the people who will consider approving this deal are all his former defenders who he has now stacked the Justice Department with: President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
‘In Washington, Did Orange Don, His Stately Pleasure Dome Decree’. Construction begins on Trump’s oligarch-funded ballroom: The facade of the East Wing of the White House came crumbling down on Monday as construction began on President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a project that will transform one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and nearly […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 19, 2025
I’ve shifted to this Sunday Magazine format to give us at least one day a week where the Trump nightmare doesn’t override everything else. Yesterday’s protests had the same effect. So today I’m sharing the best of what I found from yesterday. Because we at least have hope that we can help stop the Trump […]
The October 18 ‘No Kings’ March Open Thread
Where are you marching? What are you seeing? What are your thoughts and feelings? Celebrity sightings? We’re marching in Wilmington, I plan to wear my sweatshirt with Trump and Putin kissing under the mistletoe. What I DON’T want are speeches by our pathetically-weak Washington delegation, especially Chris Coons. Perhaps there will be a buffet there […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Gee, Look Who Trump Pardoned During The Friday News Dump: Former Representative George Santos of New York, the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn, was released from a federal prison on Friday night after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence for fraud. His lawyer, Joseph Murray, said that Mr. […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 16, 2025
1. The Rae Krantz Campaign Goes LIVE! As in right here: When I was disenchanted with my jobs after college, I taught myself the necessary skills to enable a career-change to software development. To make it easier for others to do the same, I then became an advocate for stronger apprenticeship programs in the industry and […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 17, 2025
The Real Commander-In-Chief: You simply must read this profile of Russell Vought, the man who is utterly destroying the Federal government: What Vought has done in the nine months since Trump took office goes much further than slashing foreign aid. Relying on an expansive theory of presidential power and a willingness to test the rule […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Looks Like Trump Is Waging A Covert War Against Venezuela. Will anybody, specifically D’s, utter even a simple bleat about this?: The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader. The authorization is the latest […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Young Rethugs Unmasked As Nazi Wannabes. Politico(?!) breaks the story: NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Making Black Lung Great Again: When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry. But on Tuesday dozens of miners and their families will be in a more unusual position: protesting the Trump […]
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