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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, […]
Song of the Day 11/2: The Police, “Walking on the Moon”
Kim Kardashian might become a lawyer soon, but that doesn’t mean she’s anything but stupid, and I’m not just referring to her decision to have multiple children with a mentally ill anti-Semite. I’m referring to her notion that the moon landings were faked, a belief so stupid that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, no Einstein himself,
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 2, 2025
Our Fascination With ‘Frankenstein’: It is, perhaps, the most famous origin story in literature, and it begins with blood-red snow falling from the sky. The year 1816 brought forth freakish weather set off by the explosion of a volcano in Indonesia. Blizzards battered New England in June. Rivers swelled and filled with the bodies of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Judges Order Trump To Forestall Starvation For Millions: A judge in Rhode Island on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep paying for food stamps during the shutdown, finding that it had acted unlawfully by refusing to tap emergency funds to sustain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Late on Friday, President Trump said […]
Song of the Day 10/31: Oingo Boingo, “Dead Man’s Party”
Before Danny Elfman embarked on his prolific career scoring films, he led a band called Oingo Boingo. His older brother had started a street theater troupe in Los Angeles in the ’70s called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and Danny started writing music for them. They were just Oingo Boingo by 1979, but […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 31, 2025
Air Traffic Controllers Could STILL Be The Key To Ending Government Shutdown: Air traffic controller absences delayed or temporarily halted operations at airports on Thursday, as the Trump administration warned of worsening disruptions while workers go without pay. The worst of the staffing interruptions was at Orlando International Airport, where the Federal Aviation Administration warned […]
A Very Special Edition Of Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 30, 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 […]
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