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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Yes, It Was A Great Speech. At least in part because Michelle made a very important point: “If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating room table during a routine delivery gone bad, her pressure dropping as she loses more and more blood, or some unforeseen infection spreads and her doctors aren’t sure […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024
The Relentless Rethug Campaign To Disenfranchise Voters. Virginia: On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from state rolls—within 90 days of November’s election—was illegal. Now, with that election less than two weeks away, the state must reinstate all 1,600 revoked registrations. Fourth Circuit […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 25, 2024
Melissa Brayman For NCC President. Monique Johns’ behavior since she won a five-way primary has revealed who she is: A money-grubbing grifter and a narcissist. The best that we could hope for her in office is that she becomes a laughingstock. The worst? She and the County wind up with a bunch of lawsuits on […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Monique Johns Is Who We Thought She Was. A grifter only in it for personal gain. Rarely has our Tip Line lit up (OK, the Tip Line doesn’t technically light up, but bear with me here) as it has. for what is the first of what presumably will be many attempts to rip off the […]
‘Bulo’s XPN Top Ten Songs Of The 21st Century
For all of you, those of you, any of you(?) clamoring for more musical content, I’m your man. This year, XPN is counting down the 885 Best Songs Of The 21st Century as chosen by You, The Listeners. It’s an impossible task, so here’s what I did. I made a list of favorites that I’m […]
Our PAL Val Tries, Fails, To Designate Her Successor As Speaker From Beyond The Political Grave
We start, however, with a juicy bit of schadenfreude from primary night. Turns out Val didn’t see her defeat at the hands of Kamela Smith (!) coming. She and her political team are in her basement adding up the totals while, upstairs, a joyous victory celebration is taking place. Because the celebrants don’t see it […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 18, 2024
The Big Story Is That Trump Is Unhinged And Suffering From Something Very Much Like Dementia: “What’s alarming is how the rate of Trump’s bizarre speech and political decisions have been increasing. He gave an answer about childcare to the Economic Club of New York so incoherent that even his supporters were concerned. Last week […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Brett Baier Tries To Mansplain Trump’s Superiority To Kamala Harris. If the Fox interview accomplished anything, it likely turned women off to Trump’s toxic masculinity as channeled through Baier: The interview with Mr. Baier gave Ms. Harris access to a large audience of Republican women whom her campaign is trying to win over. Her advisers […]
Towards A Delaware Transparency Agenda
Premature? No. It’s long past time to drive a stake through the secrecy that practitioners of the Delaware Way have used to perpetuate the casual corruption at its core. We’ll have a new governor who ran against some of the worst elements of the Delaware Way. We’ll be free of the likes of John Carney, […]
WHYY Reports On Progressive Agenda For Transparency
Matt Meyer makes clear that transparency on police actions would be part of that agenda: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Meyer said he supports absolute transparency in policing and would assess if more needed to be done beyond last year’s legislation, if elected governor. “You can’t have a system where a small group of police officers […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 13, 2024
Yep, JD Vance’s Mom Owes Her Health Insurance To–Obamacare: In Vance’s telling, his family members’ experience reflects Trump’s stewardship of the nation’s health-care markets — a perspective shared by some conservatives, who say that Trump took steps to stabilize the Affordable Care Act after Republican repeal efforts collapsed in 2017. Even as the president publicly […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Trump Comes Out For Full-Fledged Fascism. Not bothering to hide it: Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office. The former president, speaking from Aurora, Colorado on Friday, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Yes, It’s Horrific. Just don’t say ‘climate change’. Or (coming soon), ‘I wonder if my insurance will cover this’. Over 3 million customers w/o power as I post this. Don’t think anyone anticipated the severity of the tornadoes, which resulted in multiple deaths. Delaware Tries To ‘Big-Time’ NCC On Behalf Of Port Expansion. Aided and […]
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