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BREAKING: Nicole Poore OUT As Bond Bill Chair
Sen. Dave Sokola has released the Senate committee assignments for the upcoming session. Quite a bit of news here. Since I couldn’t find the release on the Senate site, I got it from the Delaware State News (h/t to one of our spies). While Nicole Poore is still on the Bond Bill Committee, she no […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday December 20 2022
What’s the point of having guns if you can’t brandish?
An 18-year-old is now a former freshman at the University of Delaware after he was allegedly seen brandishing a gun on campus in a Snapchat video.
Michael Hearn, Junior was seen with the gun Friday, UD police said.
Possession of firearms, ammunition and other weapons is prohibited on university property under unless campus police OK it, and Hearn, who’s now been “separated” from UD and banned from the campus, is charged with possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, along with several drug offenses.
He also faces further disciplinary action by UD’s Office of Student Conduct, and is currently being held at the Howard Young Prison.
Jan 6 committee refers Donald Trump for criminal prosecution on four counts
Four Republicans referred to House ethics committee for refusing to comply with panel’s subpoenas, including Kevin McCarthy
The four counts of the Trump referrals are for “influencing or impeding an official proceeding of the US government”, “conspiring to defraud the US”, “unlawfully, knowingly or willingly making false statements to the federal government”, and “assisting or engaging in insurrection against the United States”.
The referrals are largely symbolic, as attorney general Merrick Garland will make his own decision on charges at the conclusion of the justice department’s own investigations, headed by special prosecutor Jack Smith.
The panel is also referring four Republican members of Congress to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas, including Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader who is expected to run for speaker of the House when the party takes control of the chamber next year.
The January 6 committee’s full report is expected to be released today.
On the Mt Rushmore of evil fuckers out to murder our American multicultural democracy, don’t forget Tucker Carlson
Carlson is a demagogue who sneers at America’s heritage as a multicultural nation bound by shared principles like liberty, equality, and democracy. He instead embraces the blood-and-soil nationalism of European autocracies. This radical and reactionary philosophy is swiftly gaining power on the American right, thanks to adherents such as the fascist billionaire Peter Thiel and his pet philosopher Curtis Yarvin and hand-picked Sen.-elect J.D. Vance. Carlson is that movement’s accelerant; he is using his weekday program on Fox and regular specials on its streaming platform, Fox Nation, as well as his influence over the Republican Party, to bring it into the mainstream.
Song of the Day 12/19: Chris Rea, “Driving Home for Christmas”
One source of Christmas music overload: Too much repetition. Even the best songs start to chafe when you’re hearing them for the hundredth time this month, no matter how different the arrangements. British holiday music provides some relief. Songs that are overplayed in England sound fresh to American ears. This tune by blues slide guitarist […]
DL Open Thread Monday December 19 2022
Water? Pfft…We’ll live off tax cuts and bile! The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years. That dire scenario — which would cut off water […]
Song of the Day 12/18: Small Town Titans, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
Small Town Titans are a power trio from that rock hotbed of York, Pa., whose members met at Lebanon Valley College in 2011. In 2018 they released this filthy version of every hard-rock band’s favorite holiday tune, the Grinch’s theme song from the Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” A lot of bands have […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they have in 20 years, with employee rights and job security being the second and third reasons for labor organizing. But unions aren’t the only route […]
The Jan. 6 committee will take up criminal referrals against Donald Trump
He committed his crimes in the open. The only question has been, will those crimes be shoved down the memory hole for the sake of bipartisanship? The House says, no. The AG may still say Yes. The House Select Jan. 6 Committee will take up criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump on at […]
Cape Gazette publishes a press release of a press release of a very poorly written bio of Ruth Briggs King
The Cape Gazette version of the press release actually improves on the Elysian Magazine re-print of the very poorly written press release from The National Foundation of Women Legislators. . #journalism
A Very Special Highland Bunker (Working Title)
h/t to Andrew for cluing be into the fact that another pod dropped. I’ll be back to rate this episode with my patented 0-5 Missile Toes rating system.
An ode to journalism.
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Song of the Day 12/17: Slade, “Merry Christmas Everybody”
As Noddy Holder asks in the second verse, does your granny always tell ya that the old songs are the best? If she’s British, this 1973 single by Slade, who ruled British charts in the ’70s, might be one of the tunes she’s talking about. It’s been among the UK’s most-played holiday songs in the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 17, 2022
How A Walk In The Park Became Putin’s War. Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities…: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers […]
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