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DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 13, 2025
Trump To Veterans: Drop Dead Sooner: The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides. The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the […]
Song of the Day 12/12: Talking Heads, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
The WXPN 885 cover songs countdown ended last evening, and there were no surprises among the top finishers: Jimi Hendrix covering “All Along the Watchtower” was No. 1, Johnny Cash doing “Hurt” No. 2 and Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” No. 3, all of which were easy to predict. There were plenty of surprises further down the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 12, 2025
Circle yesterday on your calendar. I think it might mark a bounce off the bottom. I also think it might be a turning point. Not because of anything that Democrats did, but because Rethugs have (a) finally realized that they are an endangered species en masse; and (b) some have simply had enough of Trump’s bullying. Indiana […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending December 11, 2025
“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 […]
Song of the Day 12/11: The Mavericks, “Here Comes the Rain”
Raul Malo, founder and lead singer of the Mavericks, died of cancer Monday at 60, silencing one of the best voices of his generation. Malo, the son of Cuban immigrants, formed the group in Miami, but they were signed as a country band and relocated to Nashville. Their sound, which owed as much to rock […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker. Um, why? Chris, you’re on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Care to hazard a guess? Or say anything?: The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a dramatic escalation in President Trump’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. Speaking at the […]
Song of the Day 12/10: Simple Minds, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona There’s an ‘80s revival going on. It’s been going on since about 1990. It’s the decade that wouldn’t die. Eighties pop culture nostalgia spiked in the 2000s, bubbled on low heat for a while and now Gen Z can’t stop TikToking about big hair, bold colors, Game Boys, shoulder pads, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
When Does The Anecdotal Become The Empirical? Rethugs lose two more elections: Georgia: Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area—the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in […]
Song of the Day 12/9: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”
Donald Trump’s War on Wind – a particularly stupid fixation given AI’s soaring demand for electricity – suffered a setback yesterday. A federal judge ruled his abrupt cancellation of all wind power projects was “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.” As if that would ever stop him. I’m sure his amateur-grade lawyers will take […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Absolute Corruption–Trump Mobilizes To Stop WBD/Netflix Merger Because…: Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what used to be Time Warner and now goes by the name Warner Bros Discovery (which includes CNN in addition to the more lucrative media stuff). The company had agreed to be acquired by Netflix. So […]
Song of the Day 12/8: Gloria Gaynor, “Fida Known”
Trump played MC for the Kennedy Center Honors last night, and managed to get through the evening while keeping the cringe to a minimum. But it’s Trump, so he couldn’t go without making a few vile remarks. After praising the persistence he said marked the careers of the honorees in his introduction, Trump added, “I […]
Jason 330 Makes The Case Against Chris Coons As Only Jason 330 Could
Our Beloved Founder was on to the DINO from the Gore-Tex Dynasty before, well, pretty much anybody. Here are some of his greatest hits, ideally to be replayed during the upcoming campaign: Coons Piles On Hunter Biden–After Keeping His Mouth Shut About Jared Kushner. Coons Willing To Sell Out Abortion Rights To Placate Tommy Tuberville. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 8, 2026
Trump Has Early Stage Alzheimer’s? It’s as plain as the orange makeup caked on his hand: Trump’s deteriorating physical and cognitive condition stopped being a punchline somewhere around the moment he fell asleep in a Cabinet meeting (23 times this week alone), got angry when asked about his MRI, and sent his entire comms team […]
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