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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 29, 2026
Credit where credit’s due: In a building where anybody with access to knowledge is a prospective leaker, the stealth veto overrides by the Senate was a masterstroke. The bleatings of Eric Buckson tell us that the Senate Rethugs weren’t clued in, not that it mattered. I suspect, though, that the secrecy was aimed more at […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 29, 2026
Delaware State Senate Overrides Two Meyer Vetoes. Not sure anybody wants this relationship to be fixed: Longstanding tensions between Delaware’s governor and lawmakers within his own party revealed themselves again on Wednesday. The State Senate voted to override Gov. Matt Meyer’s two vetoes issued on bills last year – one that would close what advocates […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Delaware Senators To Oppose ICE Funding. Although–Chris Coons’ words give him some wiggle room: Delaware’s congressional delegation is calling President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown lawless and vowing to oppose more money for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware said federal agents are wreaking havoc on all Americans, and […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
(Author’s Note: I originally wrote the first part of this on Monday evening. I’ve saved it for posterity because, well, I’m lazy.) I’m writing this under the assumption that the General Assembly will actually meet today. Were Terry Spence still the Speaker Of The House, session would already be canceled. Terry was legendary for calling […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 27, 2026
I was halfway through my General Assembly Pre-Game Show when I got the sad news: Today’s session has been canceled. It was perhaps my best writing ever. Which will now never see the light of day. Because of my innate generosity, though, if you’d like to read my latest masterpiece, a mere $1000 will get you a […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 26, 2026
Here’s How To Cover A Murder By ICE: Federal officials sought to portray a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday as a domestic terrorist, saying he wanted to “massacre” law enforcement, even as videos emerged that appeared to directly contradict their account. The man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was an intensive-care nurse […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 25, 2026
It was bound to happen–Trump and the ICEstapo would do something so heinous that we couldn’t even take a break to enjoy a Sunday morning respite. The government-sanctioned murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti hit me so hard that it was difficult to think of anything else. Here’s a profile of the person who ICE killed in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 24, 2026
Trump’s War Against DEI Officially Dead. Sorta: Nearly a year ago, the Education Department sent universities and K-12 school districts scrambling with a sweeping but vague directive. The “Dear Colleague” letter said schools may be in violation of federal law if they consider race in virtually any way — hiring, discipline policy, scholarships and programming. […]
El Somnambulo Goes Over The Campaign Finance Reports So That You Don’t Have To
As usual, this will be a post-in-progress. I will continue to update is as the finance reports roll in, the deadline for submissions being January 20. I will post the most recent updates at the top as I see new ones. Kevin Hensley closed out 2025 with $49K in his campaign account. He will not go gently […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 23, 2026
Am I The Only One Not Paying Attention To Trump’s Board Of Peace? All I needed to see was ‘$1 billion’ to know it was just another Trump scam. White House Turns Proud Black Woman Into Crybaby: The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 22, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 22, 2026
I was wrong. The Hospital Cost Containment Board legislation is not the only bill that the leaders have decided must pass by the end of next week. Two bills designed to give NCC tools to address inequities in the New Castle County reassessment project are on today’s Senate Agenda, and are certain to be fast-tracked […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 22, 2026
The Entire World Sees That Trump’s Insane–Also Racist: Donald Trump turned up in Davos wielding an insult bazooka. He mocked Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses, chided Mark Carney (“Canada lives because of the United States”), asserted that the Swiss are “only good because of us” and had a dig at Denmark for losing Greenland “in six […]
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