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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 19, 2024

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D’s Rescue SINO (Speaker In Name Only) Mike Johnson.  As they should have: House Republicans took a critical step late Thursday night toward bringing up the long-stalled foreign aid bill for Ukraine and Israel, after being forced to rely on Democratic votes to move a plan to consider it out of a key committee and […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 18, 2024

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Lest We Forget…Israel Attacked Iran: Israel was mere moments away from an airstrike on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders at Iran’s embassy complex in Syria when it told the United States what was about to happen. Israel’s closest ally had just been caught off guard. The Israelis had badly miscalculated, thinking that […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, April 15, 2024

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Couple of idle thoughts to start the week: Israel’s vow to rescue the hostages was only slightly more sincere than OJ’s vow to find the real killers. America invested more energy in the courtship of the Golden Bachelor than the subsequently-wedded couple spent on their own marriage. Oh, for those of you utilizing cunning linguistics […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 5, 2024

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First, A Public Disservice Announcement:  Delaware Political Weekly will be a little late this week.  As in  tomorrow.  I’m working on the Bob Marshall piece, and I think I’ve finally figured out how to write it. Algorithms Decide Assisted Living Staffing Levels.  Which is why the government must: Two decades ago, a group of senior-housing […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 21, 2024

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This Judge Cannon…Does anybody really think that her appointment to this case was a mere coincidence?  I don’t: Lawyers and former judges said they are baffled by an order issued this week by the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s pending trial on charges that he mishandled classified documents — and believe her instructions suggest the […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 2, 2024

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NC Rethugs About To Choose A RWNJ For Governor.  Man, this guy: Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said. Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 23, 2024

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More Proof Rethugs ‘Caught The Car’ On Reproductive Rights.  Virtually nobody is opposed to in-vitro fertilization.  Including, among others,  America’s Most Pious Politician, Mike Pence.  And yet…: Kellyanne Conway, a former top aide to Mr. Trump, in December circulated polling conducted by her firm to lawmakers for a conservative women’s organization that showed vast majorities […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

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READ THIS! IN ITS ENTIRETY!  Were I omnipotent, I would make you read it.  I know you’re not all TPM members (you should be), so I’ll excerpt what I can: First came the news that prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss’s office had decided that the confidential FBI informant who had been one of Biden’s […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

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Netanyahu To Biden: “Fuck You”.  Waits until Blinken has almost completed delicate negotiations, then blows them up: Calling Hamas’ position “delusional,” Netanyahu renewed a pledge to destroy the Islamist movement, saying there was no alternative for Israel but to bring about its collapse. “The day after is the day after Hamas. All of Hamas,” he […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024

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Right-wing radicals billing themselves the Army of God took to the road yesterday in a border-bound trucker convoy. They departed Virginia Beach and planned to attract participants along the way, claiming they’d arrive at the Rio Grande with 700,000 people. So far they’re about 699,900 short, partly because – cue Admiral Ackbar – IT’S A […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024

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Dems To Pick Up House Seat In Louisiana.  Not even the Rethugs had any choice but to support this: Louisiana’s Legislature has passed a new congressional map, brushing off opposition from the Bayou State’s own Speaker Mike Johnson and positioning Democrats to pick up an additional seat in the midterms. The Louisiana Legislature finalized the […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 31, 2023

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Biden Bypasses Congress,  Sends More Lethal Weaponry To Netanyahu: On Friday, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had approved the sale of 155mm projectiles and related equipment valued at $147.5m, an increase from an earlier approved order for tens of thousands of rounds of the heavy artillery […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 22, 2023

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A Preview Of Our Holiday Programming: Dec. 26:  DL’s MVP’s Of 2023 Dec. 26-30:  ‘Bulo’s 50 Fave Tunes Of The Year.  10 each day. Dec. 31:  2023: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous.  The only look-back on the year in Delaware you will ever need that you’ll want to read.  It’s epic(ally long), or will […]

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