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DL Open Thread: Monday, October 13, 2025
My Thoughts: Thank G-d It’s Over, and Who Will Rebuild Gaza? The orgy of congratulations is at least partially earned, at least on the part of everyone but the genocidal Netanyahu: “Our enemies now understand just how powerful and just how determined Israel is,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “They understand that attacking Israel on […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 12, 2025
Most Fascinating Person Of The Week: Lee Lozano–who didn’t speak for women for 28 years: LEE LOZANO CRASHED through New York’s art world between 1960 and 1972, a restless decade during which she went about disrupting all of its conventions. A compatriot and challenger to a cadre of mostly male artists who would become leading […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 11, 2025
John Bolton Next To Face Trumped-Up Charges?: The acting U.S. Attorney in Maryland is moving forward quickly to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to two people familiar with the case. A complaint or an indictment could come as early as next week, said the sources, who […]
My XPN List Of Ten Fave Cover Songs
This year, the WXPN 885 Countdown will be an all-covers countdown. This is the list I submitted to XPN. I skipped the obvious choices like Hendrix doing ‘All Along The Watchtower’ because that song hardly needs my vote. Based on lists from hosts and XPN staff, it seems pretty apparent to me that ‘Hallelujah’ by […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 10, 2025
Did Nepotism Influence Gov. Meyer’s Agreement (and/or surrender) With Christiana Care? The question becomes more germane as Mediawatch uncovered this potential conflict-of-interest for us. Dr. Cooksey is Matt Meyer’s wife. It’s not the only action that Meyer has taken that raises questions, though. Remember this? That’s right. Meyer’s two appointments to the Hospital Cost Review […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 9, 2025
1. James Spadola Is Suddenly A Democrat. Here’s why, in his own words: In his post, Spadola said that he weighed the decision to stay Republican. “Other than staying the course, I could not find a reason that fit my values or my vision for Wilmington, certainly not under the GOP’s nostalgic claim of fiscal […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 9, 2025
While Trump tries To stake his claim to the Nobel Peace Prize (Spoiler Alert–he’s not getting it), the Big Story remains that Our Demented President Wages War On American Cities. Months ago, Donald Trump claimed that Los Angeles “would be burning” if not for the federal troops he was sending there. On Sunday, in a similarly […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 5, 2025
Coffee, Cheese, Wine: Nature’s Most Essential Foods? Or just my most essential foods?: Coffee: Coffee growers are dealing with a lot right now. Most immediately, the Trump administration’s tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production. In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can’t […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Trump To Deport 300,000 Venezuelans: The Supreme Court said Friday the Trump administration can for now strip temporary protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, pausing a federal judge’s order saying officials had acted improperly on the issue. The justices wrote in a brief, unsigned order that the case was fundamentally […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 3, 2025
The Knee-Jerks Didn’t Like This: The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among antiabortion leaders. The approval of the drug on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Health and Human Services […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 2, 2025
1. Dan Cruce Wants You To Know That He Reallyreallyreally Lives In Wilmington: He just resurfaced there after having been invisible since, well, since the Special Election. He’s trumpeting his Wilmington residency in a hastily-started door-to-door. Far be it from me to raise any questions about where he lives. I’ll leave that task to Dan […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Gonna have to make this quick –Delmarva is doing maintenance work, and we’ll be w/o power starting at 8 am. I’ve poured myself a double (shot of TJ’s Cold Brew), so I should at least be semi-lucid. President Will Make Blue States Suffer During Shutdown. Hey, he’s already fighting the new Civil War, if you, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Welcome, Blue Delaware Reader(s?)! Y’know, I used to joke that, in those rare instances when we broke a story over here, Blue Delaware would have it in 3-2-1, without attribution. Guess I’ve gotta come up with a new joke. That guy was a serial plagiarizer, presumably because he never came up with even a sentence […]
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