DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026
Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens--so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate…
Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”
The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days.…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026
Frederick Wiseman--America's Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking,…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026
Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked…
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Most Trump Tariffs
From the NYTimes: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major…
Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”
U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP "Days of Ash" joins the growing list of anti-DHS…
DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
Spotlight Delaware unveiled a major project yesterday that assesses the statewide reassessment that has gored many an ox. Not surprisingly, it found that poor people and minorities got hit the…
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending February 19, 2026
1. R Nikki Miller Drops Out Of RD 20 Race. I'm surprised, TBH. She almost beat Stell Parker Selby in 2024, and she almost beat Alonna Berry in the 2025…
Song of the Day 2/19: Joe Frazier and the Knockouts, “Knock on Wood”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It seems wrong to put a movie-prop statue right next to a major collection of great art, yet there’s Rocky at the steps of the…
DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026
For those who pay attention to polls, this recent one contains an interesting phenomenon, noted on BlueSky by Adam Bonin, a lawyer from Philadelphia. For months I've banged the drum…
Song of the Day 2/18: Billie Jo Spears, “Blanket on the Ground”
The tale of "Kristi Needs Her Blankie" is even sadder and sillier than first reported. You may recall from, oh, last week sometime that DHS chief Kristi Noem tried to…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
Why Not Colbert For President?: Stephen Colbert addressed the fervor around Monday’s “Late Show” on Tuesday, remarking that he’d said his piece after CBS wouldn’t air his interview with James…
Song of the Day 2/17: Robert Duvall, “I’ve Decided to Leave Here Forever”
The obituaries for Robert Duvall, the greatest character actor of his generation, all lauded his amazing versatility. Some of them mentioned that for his lone Oscar-winning role, as washed-up country…