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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 […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
I was really hoping that Brianna Hill would be at the Spotlight Delaware Members Mixer. Why? Because many of her articles make me angry for the best possible reason-she brings superior critical thinking skills to everything she writes. In so doing, she sheds light on the worst elements of the Delaware Way. Take this story, […]
Gibraltar: An Inside Job
Guest Post From Hi Neighbor: WHYY’s earlier article on this highlighted some important facts that are worth repeating here. Facts matter, so let’s review them. (Link to that and other articles at the end of this post.) 1) There is a Conservation Easement on the Gibraltar property — paid for with $1 million taxpayer dollars […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
‘Tis A Puzzlement’. I scoped out the song from ‘The King And I’, and no, I’m not linking to it. However, we at Delaware Liberal are puzzled. In the past three days, someone, or some someones, have been going through literally thousands of old articles from our archives. Hey, we love the page views, but […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 10, 2025
Let me get this straight–Democrats win an overwhelming victory on Tuesday. The victory being largely due to voters’ disgust over Trump’s cruel policies coupled with his Gilded Age embrace of billionaires uber alles. The Dems take a brief victory lap until–a group of so-called ‘moderate’ Senators cut a deal with Rethugs that will likely leave tens […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 9, 2025
Yes, There Is An Opera Titled ‘La Somnambula’. And it’s apparently good, by opera standards: The soprano Nadine Sierra, center, as the title sleepwalker of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” at the Metropolitan Opera.Credit…Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Some opera plots are so preposterous that their setting hardly matters. At first blush, Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” seems to […]
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