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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 […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025
We start today with a Rorschach Test: Thoughts? Comments? Because Nothing In The Belichick/Hudson Saga Is Too Cringe-y For Me: A few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, just before the show began, the most successful coach in NFL history slipped in through a side door of the State of Maine Grand Ballroom. A pink tie […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Wasn’t Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering suspending immigrants’ right to challenge their detention in court before being deported. “The Constitution is clear,” he told reporters outside the White House, arguing that […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025
They’re Just Trolling Us Now. Jeanine Pirro For DC AG. Some Influencer Who Isn’t A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General. Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of Congress and Acting Head Of FEMA to release the following statement: Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media Thursday, calling her a “total crack […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday was basically a committee day with a handful of non-controversial bills being worked in the Senate. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Today’s Senate Agenda features two House bills that seek to address the issue of ‘double-dipping’ elected public officials. Both HB 9 (K. Williams) and HB 38 (K. Williams) passed the House unanimously […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025
‘That Boy Ain’t Right’. We’re talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
So. I went online around 2:45 pm yesterday, only to find that the Senate had broken its land-speed record for passing the corporate law package. Gavelled in at 2, agenda completed by 2:45. After all, it’s not as if any questions were warranted. The House passed the bill designed to get Our Man In Pakistan […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Suh-prize, Suh-prize, It Was Never About Anti-Semitism. Just MAGAts going after an institution they don’t like: The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out. To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard […]
BREAKING: Camden (DE) Police Department Cuts Deal With ICE
This requires its own thread: Several Delaware civil rights organizations are calling for the town of Camden and its police department to withdraw from a recently adopted agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which allows local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. ICE records show the Camden Police Department signed onto the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
We’ve got at least two games of chicken going on in Dover–the Port vendetta between the State Senate and the Governor, and the battle over how to pay for the FY 2026 budget. The more urgent is the latter, as any prospective resolution over the Edgemoor port expansion will require the courts to sort out […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
You see what Trump’s doing, right? The exact same thing he’s done with his businesses for his entire career. Only with the Justice Department acting as his personal attorneys. He floods the zone with illegality, then he just draws everything out through the courts. Pretty much everything that has reached final resolution, which isn’t all […]
Don’t Tell Anybody…Great Musician To Perform At House Show Here This Saturday!
Probably only available to the first 50 to respond, so keep it to yourself. Well, 46, when you subtract tickets for my wife and I, and for our daughter and son-in-law. A New Jersey date fell through. We received the SOS this morning, and by 3 this afternoon, largely thanks to the quick work of […]
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