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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Court To Trump: ‘No Troops For You’: President Donald Trump was permanently blocked from sending the National Guard to Portland by U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, who delivered her final order in the case Friday. The case has centered around whether ongoing protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Alice Cooper, “Billion Dollar Babies”
Elon Musk and his stockholders sure showed Delaware Chancery Court. You think $56 billion in CEO compensation is excessive? How about … one TRILLION dollars? That’s how much Tesla will pay Musk if he meets “certain performance targets” over the next decade. Sure, car sales are down, but Elon’s new pitch is robots, so why […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 6, 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 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 7, 2025
That’s A Wrap: Sandwich Guy Acquitted. I’m linking to this article b/c it made me laugh: Throughout the trial, the prosecution and defense characterize the sandwich throw as either ferocious (the prosecution) or frivolous (the defense). They employ language to match, staging a high-tension courtroom drama: “He takes the sandwich in his hand, he cocks […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Michael Sembello, “Maniac”
The race for title of Craziest GOP Congresswoman is always hotly contested. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Bobert, and Anna Paulina Luna all have their moments, but nobody is as crazy as Nancy Mace, and running for governor of South Carolina has proved it. Her now-legendary meltdown in an airport confrontation with TSA personnel last week […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Looks Like A One-Bill Special Session In The Senate Today. Here’s the bill: An extension of the deadline for payment of property tax bills in New Castle County for the 2025-2026 tax year established under Chapter 135 of Volume 85 of the Laws of Delaware (House Bill No. 242, as amended by House Amendment 1, […]
Song of the Day 11/15: They Might Be Giants, “The Communists Have the Music”
A Democratic socialist – and a Muslim, no less! – is now the mayor-elect of New York City. Though Zohran Mamdani is a Democrat, he had to overcome the opposition of both major parties to win. And he managed to gather more than 50% of the vote against Republican Curtis Sliwa and defeated-in-the-primary Democrat Andrew […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Hope. Hope I haven’t felt in 365 days. The election results reflect nothing less than a total repudiation of Trump and Trumpism by the American people. Other than a couple of ‘stick-in-your-eye’ ballot measures in Texas, the news was all good. Here are some results you may have missed, no, wait. Before I do that, here is […]
2025 Election Night Open Thread
Virginia polls close at 7. New Jersey polls close at 8. NYC polls close at 9. We’ll update info as it comes in. Feel free to share your thoughts.
Song of the Day 11/4: Tom Lehrer, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)”
Is it mere coincidence that Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller “House Full of Dynamite” on Netflix came out about the same time Donald Trump proclaimed nuclear testing is back? The movie’s premise, that a single nuclear missile is headed for Chicago and it’s unclear who launched it, requires a suspension of disbelief – it takes place […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Today’s Election Day. Should be a real good day for Democrats–with one notable exception. Mamdani will win an overwhelming victory. Abigail Spanberger will flip the Va. governorship from R to D, and I look for D gains in the legislature there as well. Cali will approve the new gerrymander. The exception? I think Mikie Sherrill […]
Song of the Day 11/3: Connie Francis, “Who’s Sorry Now”
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board is worried about the forces unleashed by Trump’s unbridled fascism. They’ve been whinging about tariffs for quite a while now, but they’re really riled up about the increasingly naked anti-Semitism on what they call the “new right.” Oh, now it’s gone too far. Plucking people off the street because […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 3, 2025
Wilmington Senior Center Cuts Staff Amid Dubious Financial Practices. There are a few questions relating to this: The Wilmington Senior Center, a longtime gathering space for older residents, will close its doors on Fridays after laying off a third of its staff amid ongoing budget shortfalls. Just how severe the organization’s financial woes are, however, […]
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