DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
'Flooding The Zone' In The Age Of Trump: FBI Takes Marching Orders From Discredited Conspiracy Theorist: The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month…
Song of the Day 2/10: Frank Sinatra, “Fly Me to the Moon”
After 20 years of blathering about his intention to colonize the Red Planet, big-brained super-genius Elon Musk announced yesterday that because Earth and Mars only align every 26 months, he…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026
Total 'Victory' Over Climate Change. As in 'no more pesky regulations': In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s…
Song of the Day 2/9: Twisted Sister, “I Wanna Rock”
Try to contain your disappointment: Twisted Sister had to call off its 50th anniversary tour, its first comeback in a decade, because frontman Dee Snider unexpectedly quit, citing his declining…
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 9, 2026
Anecdotal Becoming The Empirical, Ctd. There's only one reason, and it's not the quality of D candidates, and it's not that people love the Democratic Party: Democrats successfully defended a…
Song of the Day 2/8: Guy Clark, “Desperados Waiting for a Train”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Texas politics are looking better after a Democrat trounced the MAGA candidate last week in a special election, boosting the party’s chances to gain the…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: Feb. 8, 2026
Why the Internet sucks, and what we can do about it. A real deep dive, perfect for a lazy Sunday morning: It’s clear something has gone so wrong. But what…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 7, 2026
He's In-SA-A-A-A-A-NE. Trump says portraying Obamas as monkeys wasn't a mistake: President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle…
Song of the Day 2/6: Nazareth, “Too Bad Too Sad”
"Everything Trump touches dies" is becoming nearly as immutable as the law of gravity. Bitcoin, the favorite pretend currency of money launderers and drug traffickers, experienced a sudden crash the…
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
How Capitalists Killed Capitalism. A 'Guest Essay', and I like it: Since Mary Poppins’s day (I spared you the 'Mary Poppins' analogy), the financial sector as a whole — investment…
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 5, 2026
“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…
Song of the Day 2/5: Supertramp, “Crime of the Century”
Only half of the Epstein files have been released and already the sleaze quotient is off the charts – and this is with them redacting as much as possible to…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 5, 2026
For those who missed it, Al (not A I) alerted us to this comment from Sen. Stephanie Hansen re data centers: “Given the growing emphasis on technology and artificial intelligence,…