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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 13, 2025
Fascism On The MARCH! Let’s handcuff a United States Senator Edition: When U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it was almost as if Donald Trump’s most well-worn talking point came to life: A bad hombre tried to go after a white American. All […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Virtually all the action took place in committee meetings. Except for the Speaker’s ongoing stonewalling (see the Open Thread for particulars). Today’s House Agenda features HB 54 (Morrison), which creates and funds an Office Of Suicide Prevention. With plenty of bipartisan sponsorship, the bill will be on its way […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Mimi Minor-Brown Stonewalls Press On Stell Parker-Selby’s Absence. So Does Staff: https://www.coasttv.com/news/exclusive-house-speaker-refuses-to-answer-coasttvs-questions-on-stell-parker-selby/video_a7d5c11a-8dc0-5efd-9ebf-d09f0ec65f36.html https://www.coasttv.com/news/exclusive-no-votes-no-answers-selby-s-absence-raises-legal-and-ethical-questions/video_2a6837ec-1752-5cff-b19e-a9610eb631cb.html That’s the Mimi Minor-Brown I know first-hand. BTW, the tall gentleman in the second video accompanying her? That’s the Sergeant-At-Arms who got in my face at the County Democratic Convention. Perhaps it’s just me, but what I saw on those videos is, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
That was a real productive day in Dover on Tuesday. I was very impressed with how Stephanie Hansen floor-managed SB 159, which helps pave the way for a wind renewable energy project. Old-timers (like me) were familiar with the outraged ‘home-rule’ bleats emanating from Suxco’s worst. Longtime former Sussex County Rep Charlie West, who was […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Week That Trump Went Full Fascist. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say we’re now in a new Civil War. Troops attack blue states under false pretenses, Trump girds for his military parade. Opposition worries about ‘woke’ (Perhaps they’re in late-night session trying to come up with language decrying the waving of Mexican flags). […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Yep, Trump’s Deporting Folks Without Due Process. Courts be damned: As protests over workplace raids in California’s largest city continued Monday and the Pentagon announced it would be sending 700 Marines to backstop National Guard troops, immigration lawyers, advocates and relatives were scrambling to find information about those detained. Mexico’s foreign minister said four immigrants […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
“Now the race is on, and here comes pride down the backstretch, heartache is movin’ to the inside.” And the winner loses all? I report, you decide. June in Dover is a race run in fits and starts–some of the fits thrown by legislators. Some of the starts false. Broken up by interminable caucuses (cauci?). […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 9, 2025
“ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACEMASKS NOW!”. Trump on Truth Social. Isn’t that what the protestors are calling for as well? The Needless Confrontation Trump Wanted, Perhaps Needed: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the federal action “purposefully inflammatory” and said that it would “only escalate tensions.” The governor also noted this deployment of soldiers is “not […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 8, 2025
Artist Of The Week: Sebastiao Salgado. Never have I seen such incredible photography, imbued with such deep humanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QgUFh27ryU A profound artist who led a meaningful life. Please watch. You’ll be blown away. You’re A Genius. So what?: Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned To The US. Putting the lie to this. And this. Let me just say this–On a day when convicted Proud Boys file suit against the Department Of Justice, Garcia should get the finest attorneys who haven’t been co-opted by Trump to file the Biggest, Most Beautiful, lawsuit against all of these […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 6, 2025
We start, of course, with a Book Report. With a shout-out to Jill, who hated Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’. Jill recommended ‘Long Bright River’ by Liz Moore. So, I checked it out of the library, and read it. Jill was spot-on. The protagonist is a policewoman who patrols the drug-riddled streets of Kensington. There’s a killer who is murdering […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Judge James E. Boasberg Is My New Hero: A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to take steps toward giving nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law the due process that they had been denied. In a sweeping and at […]
How Are We Coming With That ‘Transparency Agenda’?
How Are We Coming With That Transparency Agenda? Yeah, yeah, I’m quoted in the article, but that’s not the point. While there’s certainly been progress, especially with the imminent passage of the Inspector General bill, and the legislative steps taken to shine a light on double-dippers, we also had a distinct lack of transparency on […]
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