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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Political Arrests Becoming The Norm: The Justice Department charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a Newark immigration detention center and dropped a trespass charge against the city’s mayor that arose from the same episode, the department said Monday. Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, disclosed […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 19, 2025
Could Be A Tough Week For The Economy: Stock futures tumbled on Monday as a downgrade of the U.S.′ credit rating by Moody’s caused Treasury yields to spike. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 212 points, or 0.5%. S&P 500 futures pulled back 1%, while Nasdaq-100 futures lost 1.4%. Moody’s on Friday […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Gonna try an experiment today. May become a weekly feature, may be gone by next Sunday. Sorta like CBS Sunday Morning. More features, less timeliness. Here goes. What Do We Really Know About John Wilkes Booth? Multi-Emmy Award Winner Matthew Weiner digs deeper: Matthew Weiner has spent the past decade obsessed with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Supreme Court To Trump: No Deportations Without Due Process–At Least, Not For Now: The Trump administration will not be allowed to deport a group of Venezuelan detainees accused of being members of a violent gang under a rarely invoked wartime law while the matter is litigated in the courts, the Supreme Court said on Friday. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 16, 2025
The Shit Hits The Fan. Boy, does it. Read the entire thing. There’s so much to unpack that I can only scratch the surface with excerpts: State Rep. Sherae’a Moore’s (D-Middletown) removal from the House Education Committee has sparked a larger conversation around due process and Democratic infighting within the Delaware legislature. Moore argues her […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 15, 2025
People who I respect had told me that Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown was even worse than Our Pal Val Longhurst. Recent events, specifically Mimi’s running roughshod over members of her own caucus during the debate on the Musk-Pass bill, and the Speaker’s attempt to hijack the Democratic NCC County Convention, had moved me in that direction. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Trump Accepts Some Mexican Immigrants. Only the best, I might add: Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Yeah, I know, I’m late again. That’s because the story about Ciro and his legislative bete noir took on a life of its own. Anyway, this is designed to cover everything else I deem worthy of covering. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. A solid day of work in both chambers with several quality bills, […]
Will This Elected Official Once Again Kill This Great Bill?
We start today with a story about how one publicly-elected official, NCC Register Of Wills Ciro Poppiti, has led a years-long effort to quash what I think is a great bill. The bill in question is HS1/HB 147 (Harris). Here’s an excerpt from an AARP Op-Ed as to what the bill would do: AARP Delaware […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 14, 2024
Trump And A Few Of His Friends: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pose for a photo at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. | Alex Brandon/AP: When President Donald Trump, flanked by Arabian horses, entered the Saudi Arabian Royal Court for an opulent […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Could be a productive week in Dover, based on the promise of today’s Agendas. Particularly the Senate Agenda. Let’s start there. I see at least three notable bills: SB 122 (Huxtable): supports critical health care workforce research and planning efforts by giving the Division of Public Health and the Delaware Health Care Commission the ability […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
We Are All Episcopalians Now: In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025
‘Da Plane, Da Plane’. The perfect embodiment of the corruption permeating this administration: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by […]
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