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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 15, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 15, 202521 Comments

People who I respect had told me that Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown was even worse than Our Pal Val Longhurst. Recent events, specifically Mimi's running roughshod over members of her own…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 15, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 15, 2025

Trump Accepts Some Mexican Immigrants. Only the best, I might add: Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 14, 20259 Comments

Yeah, I know, I'm late again. That's because the story about Ciro and his legislative bete noir took on a life of its own. Anyway, this is designed to cover…

Will This Elected Official Once Again Kill This Great Bill?

By El Somnambulo May 14, 202519 Comments

We start today with a story about how one publicly-elected official, NCC Register Of Wills Ciro Poppiti, has led a years-long effort to quash what I think is a great…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 14, 2024

By El Somnambulo May 14, 2025

Trump And A Few Of His Friends: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pose for a photo at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh,…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 13, 2025

Could be a productive week in Dover, based on the promise of today's Agendas. Particularly the Senate Agenda. Let's start there. I see at least three notable bills: SB 122…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 13, 202511 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 12, 20256 Comments

'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…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 11, 202525 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 10, 20251 Comment

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…

DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 9, 20256 Comments

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…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

'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…