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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 11, 2025
‘Perhaps We Were A Bit Too Hasty…’: For months, President Donald Trump and his homeland security secretary have saidthe Federal Emergency Management Agency could be eliminated. But as the president heads to Texas to view the impact of last week’s deadly floods, administration officials say abolishing the agency outright is not on the agenda. A […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Mediawatch asked the following question about the interim appointment of Julianne Murray to be the Federal Attorney for Delaware: Will Coonsie and LBR have anything to say? This reminds me–‘Coonsie’ is up in 2026. His main selling point has always been that he’s effective in ‘reaching across the aisle’. Granted, primarily to benefit the banking […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Supreme Court To Trump: ‘You Can Fire Everybody’. Fascism On The March: For weeks, thousands of federal employees have been waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision about their continued employment with the government. On Tuesday, they got their answer: The Trump administration could move ahead with mass layoffs. The question of whether […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Two Headlines From The NYTimes. Do they first clear these with the White House?: Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack Of Evidence From Epstein Documents. Trump Looks To Avoid Casting Blame In Texas Flood As Democrats Question Cuts. ‘Acknowledges’? As in the Times knew/knows that there is no evidence? ‘Claims’ should have been used to make clear […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 7, 2025
Yes, Elon Musk Played Delaware’s Legislators (And Governor) For Fools: During this year’s legislative session, Musk’s lobbyists and representatives publicly advocated for almost a dozen bills that would benefit his companies. The Texas Newsroom identified these priorities by searching legislative records for committee testimony and other evidence of his public stances. Musk wanted legislators to […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 6, 2025
Ringo Really Is Just A Cool Guy: Starr has the amiable manner of a goofy, wisecracking uncle who happens to have been in the most successful band in the history of the known universe. After wrapping a photo shoot in a suite at the Sunset Marquis (a hotel he likes, as he said teasingly, “so […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 5, 2025
Can We Have Those Expanded Tax Brackets Now?: The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments are bracing for impact as Washington shifts much of the burden for health care, food assistance and other programs onto them. Even before the bill’s […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 4, 2025
W-what? Real news on the 4th Of July? I mean, besides America’s ongoing experiment with Fascism? Ladeez And Gentlemen–YOUR 20th RD Democratic Candidate: Alonna Berry has been selected as the Democratic candidate for the upcoming special election in Delaware’s 20th House District. She will face Republican nominee Nikki Miller in the race scheduled for Aug. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Final Day Of America As We Know It? Yes. There’s no way the Rethugs get this close and fail to seal the deal on Fascism: The House took its first step early Thursday toward a final vote on President Trump’s marquee domestic policy bill, after Republicans put down a revolt by conservative holdouts that […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Just Shut Up-Part One: Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the “One Big Beautiful Bill” to the Senate for further work. “My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Major shout-outs to Joe Connor, The MoMo, and others who stayed up later than I do these days, for keeping the midnight oil burning in Leg Hall. Were there any key pieces of legislation that were expected to pass that did not get considered? Let me know. Also, for those of you who were in […]
WTF Is Going On In RD 20?
More specifically, WTF is going on with the RD 20 Democrats? Unless I missed it, we have neither a ‘call’ to the election, nor a date for the Special Election. In fact, Rep. Parker Selby resigned on June 24. Having said that, it appears that five candidates have already surfaced on the D side. Oh, […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Monday, June 30, 2025
No longer the longest mandated day–although it could be. The hour of adjournment on the final regularly-scheduled day of this year’s legislative session will be determined by how quickly the parties can resolve the Bond Bill hold-up that has been precipitated by the Senate R’s holding the bill hostage b/c of the wind turbine bill […]
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