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Song of the Day 11/25: Jimmy Cliff, “Many Rivers to Cross”
Jimmy Cliff, who died last week at 81, did more than anyone outside Bob Marley to popularize the music of Jamaica, and not just with his songs. His fame came in large part from his cinematic star turn in “The Harder They Come,” a 1972 crime drama about a musician-turned-drug runner whose song becomes a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2025
Batshit-Crazy Defense Secretary ‘Investigates’ Senator/Military Veteran For ‘Sedition’: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into Mark Kelly after purportedly receiving “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Democratic senator from Arizona — an extraordinary use of authority to investigate a combat veteran and prominent critic of the Trump administration. The announcement Monday follows a video posted […]
BREAKING: Judge Throws Out Comey And James Cases–Rules That Lindsay Halligan Was Hired Illegally
Here’s the story: A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both […]
Song of the Day 11/24: Weezer, “Undone – The Sweater Song”
MAGA men sure are easily ruffled. The latest threat to MAGAsculinity is…a pink sweater. J Crew, known for its preppy aesthetic, is selling one in wool, with a Fair Isle yoke. Its very existence has offended the delicate sensibilities of the manly men of MAGA. We learned this when an outrage-seeking influencer on the RWNJ […]
Who Are YOUR DL MVP’s For 2025?
‘MVP’ stands for ‘Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause’ in Delaware. Your deadline for submissions is December 15. Remember that the criteria is solely what your choices did this year to earn consideration. So please suggest names and share why you think they deserve inclusion. While it’s ultimately ‘my list’, in recent years, the vast […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 24, 2025
Births And Deaths By The Numbers: A statistician’s treasure trove. The good news? White births can’t keep up with white deaths: It’s a winter phenomenon because births tend to surge in August and slow to a crawl in February, while deaths — as we’ve previously found — soar in winter and slump in summer. But […]
Song of the Day 11/23: Elton John, “Friends”
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shocked most people by getting along – not just politely coexisting, yukking it up together like old friends. Josh Marshall of TPM pointed out that Mamdani arrived with a press gaggle in tow, something bound to impress Trump who is, as LGM’s Scott Lemieux noted, an “incorrigible starfucker.” So maybe […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 23, 2025
Long-time readers know that I am a Sondheim fanatic. I think he’s our Shakespeare. He is the first among equals on my musical Mt. Rushmore (along with Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell and Thelonious Monk). I plead guilty to proselytizing on his behalf on this blog. Why? Because I think that people would love his work […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 22, 2025
You Didn’t Think The Supreme Court Would Stop That Texas Gerrymander, Did You? The Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily allowed Texas to use its newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional voting map for the 2026 midterm elections. The decision blocked, for now, a lower-court ruling that had said Texas could not use the map. Justice Samuel […]
Song of the Day 11/21: Booker T. and the M.G.’s, “Hang ‘Em High”
Donald Trump’s filter, badly atrophied to begin with, appears to have disappeared entirely with his call for six Democrats in Congress to be hung as traitors. Their “crime”? They recorded a video reminded members of the armed forces of their Constitutional duty to disobey illegal orders. Somebody should tell him panicked screeching isn’t a good […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 21, 2025
AYFKM? Delaware River And Bay Propping Up ICE Airlines? Once again, Brianna Hill has written a story that makes me angry: Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for operating deportation flights for the Trump […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 20, 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 11/20: Gordon Lightfoot, “Sundown”
Most of what Trump does would be considered “erratic behavior” in other adults, even members of Congress, but it’s all normal for him. He’s acted this way for years, so though he has clearly deteriorated, the thinking goes, the substrate of vengeance and self-aggrandizement was always close to the surface, it’s just showing through more […]
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