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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Court To Trump: ‘No Troops For You’: President Donald Trump was permanently blocked from sending the National Guard to Portland by U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, who delivered her final order in the case Friday. The case has centered around whether ongoing protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 6, 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: Friday, November 7, 2025
That’s A Wrap: Sandwich Guy Acquitted. I’m linking to this article b/c it made me laugh: Throughout the trial, the prosecution and defense characterize the sandwich throw as either ferocious (the prosecution) or frivolous (the defense). They employ language to match, staging a high-tension courtroom drama: “He takes the sandwich in his hand, he cocks […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Looks Like A One-Bill Special Session In The Senate Today. Here’s the bill: An extension of the deadline for payment of property tax bills in New Castle County for the 2025-2026 tax year established under Chapter 135 of Volume 85 of the Laws of Delaware (House Bill No. 242, as amended by House Amendment 1, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Hope. Hope I haven’t felt in 365 days. The election results reflect nothing less than a total repudiation of Trump and Trumpism by the American people. Other than a couple of ‘stick-in-your-eye’ ballot measures in Texas, the news was all good. Here are some results you may have missed, no, wait. Before I do that, here is […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Today’s Election Day. Should be a real good day for Democrats–with one notable exception. Mamdani will win an overwhelming victory. Abigail Spanberger will flip the Va. governorship from R to D, and I look for D gains in the legislature there as well. Cali will approve the new gerrymander. The exception? I think Mikie Sherrill […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 3, 2025
Wilmington Senior Center Cuts Staff Amid Dubious Financial Practices. There are a few questions relating to this: The Wilmington Senior Center, a longtime gathering space for older residents, will close its doors on Fridays after laying off a third of its staff amid ongoing budget shortfalls. Just how severe the organization’s financial woes are, however, […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 2, 2025
Our Fascination With ‘Frankenstein’: It is, perhaps, the most famous origin story in literature, and it begins with blood-red snow falling from the sky. The year 1816 brought forth freakish weather set off by the explosion of a volcano in Indonesia. Blizzards battered New England in June. Rivers swelled and filled with the bodies of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Judges Order Trump To Forestall Starvation For Millions: A judge in Rhode Island on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep paying for food stamps during the shutdown, finding that it had acted unlawfully by refusing to tap emergency funds to sustain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Late on Friday, President Trump said […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 31, 2025
Air Traffic Controllers Could STILL Be The Key To Ending Government Shutdown: Air traffic controller absences delayed or temporarily halted operations at airports on Thursday, as the Trump administration warned of worsening disruptions while workers go without pay. The worst of the staffing interruptions was at Orlando International Airport, where the Federal Aviation Administration warned […]
A Very Special Edition Of Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 30, 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, October 30, 2025
‘Time To Break Out The Nukes’: President Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, an apparent attempt to flex the United States’ military might ahead of a high-stakes trade meeting here with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Trump’s announcement […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October 2025
Other than the undeniable bangers by Brandi Carlile and Joshua Hedley, this is the most ‘El Somnambulo’ month of music this year. As in lots of stuff that’s kinda off the beaten track, but hits the musical pleasure center in my brain. Posted a little early b/c I’ve reached my self-imposed song limit for the […]
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