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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 16, 2025
A Collective Sigh Of Relief–No Title Changes At Alaska Armageddon: After meeting for nearly three hours, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin left Alaska without announcing any deal or any specific areas where they made progress. Though Mr. Putin said the leaders reached an agreement to “pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,” Mr. Trump made […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 15, 2025
Trump’s obsession with changing the subject from Everything Epstein to Anything But renders today’s meeting with Putin particularly fraught with danger. Anchorage Armageddon, if you will. Michael Wolff’s take: President Donald Trump is desperately seeking a ‘big thing’ to distract from Jeffrey Epstein–and is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to achieve it, his biographer Michael Wolff […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Trump Creates Emergency That Doesn’t Exist: The impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard troops on the ground and agents from numerous federal agencies roaming D.C. streets from the National Mall to busy corridors in Columbia Heights. At a checkpoint in Northwest Washington, local and federal officers, including Immigration […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Well. Sounds like I was better off at the concert than observing what appears to have been a political viper pit in the House last night. All I know is that Speaker Mimi had to be dragged kicking and screaming to deign to allow three amendments from Madinah Wilson-Anton to be added to the legislative […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Quick Note: Depending on how long today’s Special Session runs (I’m thinkin’ real long), I might miss a lot of it while I’m enmeshed in the blues-rock stylings of Joanne Shaw Taylor. So, I need you to fill us in on what’s happening. Thanks in advance! Why Democrats Suck–Mach Infinity: the clowns looking for their own […]
Joanne Shaw Taylor To Rock The Arden Shady Grove Tuesday
If you’re a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan or (my fave) Albert Collins, you won’t want to miss her. She was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, and she’s put her own stamp on the genre ever since. Her band is smokin’ as well. A couple of samples: I was fortunate enough to book […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 11, 2025
They Kill Journalists, Don’t They? By ‘they’, I mean the genocidal government of Israel and, yes, the journalists were targeted: A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had previously been threatened by Israel has been killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike. Anas al-Sharif, who was one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 10, 2025
Fearful Flier? Captain Ron To The Rescue: Captain Ron (real name Ron Nielsen) is a 78-year-old former commercial pilot who teaches a free class for nervous fliers roughly once a month. He has the wholesome look of a small-town minister: rectangular glasses, short-cropped white hair, and a whimsical tuft sticking out of each nostril. He’s […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 9, 2025
ICE Barbie Slow-Walks FEMA Aid To North Carolina. Let’s cut through the bullshit–it’s because the state has a Democratic governor: The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million in pre-approved funds intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure still in disrepair almost a year after […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 8, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH! Both the ‘Justice’ Department And the FBI have now been weaponized into Fascist institutions. As in: FBI To Go After Texas Legislators. First thing to know is that no laws have been violated by the Democratic lawmakers: Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Thursday that FBI Director Kash Patel has […]
Progressive Legislators To Unveil Reassessment Proposals
Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton to Host Property Tax Press Conference WILMINGTON – On Friday, August 8th at 10:30 AM, members of the Delaware House of Representatives, New Castle County Council, and Wilmington City Council will share several legislative proposals to address widespread issues with the recent property tax reassessment. Elected officials from state and local governments are […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Trump Tariffs Kick In For 90 Countries. Guess he fell about 90 short of those 100 deals: President Trump’s punishing new tariffs on more than 90 countries snapped into place after the stroke of midnight Thursday, the latest escalation in a global trade war that has started to exact a toll on the U.S. economy. […]
Julianne Murray Goes Full MAGAt
You perhaps were expecting something else?: Delaware’s new federal prosecutor has asked a judge to force state labor officials to hand over local businesses’ payroll information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to court documents. Court records indicate the office of Delaware’s U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray filed a court petition last week seeking to enforce a […]
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