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How Much Did YOUR County Councilperson Sell Out For?
This handy chart tells the story: Developers Donations to Council Chart I want to thank our DL Research Assistant for all their help on this. The assistant wishes to remain anonymous as they’re embarrassed to admit that they’re making as much as our contributors. AKA, nothing. After Dee Durham and Dave Carter, who collected no […]
Song of the Day 11/28: The B-52s, “Rock Lobster”
Fox News is running out of things to freak out about. When Joe Biden put up the White House Christmas tree extra early, their “War on Christmas” standby failed, so they tried to bitch about him jumping the gun on Christmas. That fizzled, so now they’re mad about … Whole Foods deciding not to sell […]
Will Valerie George And Brandon Toole Sell Their Offices To The Developers Before They Take Office?
We will know by Wednesday. That’s when the developers’ go-to law firm is scheduled to hold a fundraiser for both of the newcomers. Think about that: Having just been elected to 4-year terms in districts with huge D pluralities, the two newcomers are poised to (unnecessarily) fill their campaign coffers with bribes from developers and […]
DL Open Thread Monday November 28 2022
Headline from 1 Week in the future…future…future!
‘My Pillow’ Now Twitter’s Largest Advertiser
Half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.
Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday. These companies have paid Twitter more than $255 million since 2020.
Trump Entertains America’s Best Known Nazi’s at Mar-a-Lago
Alt Headline:
Just Another Thursday Night at Mar-a-Lago
Kanye West has said Donald Trump is really impressed with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, following his visit to meet the one-time president at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
The rapper, who has legally changed his name to Ye, made the comments in a two-minute campaign-style teaser video on Twitter.
Red Clay School Board member Jose Matthews and freelance journalist Jordan Howell join Rob in the bunker to talk about the recent controversy around lead testing in schools in Delaware, the systemic failures that led to this crisis, and what is and isn’t being done to fix it.
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Always a Delaware Connection
Court-appointed liquidators overseeing collapsed crypto exchange FTX’s assets in the Bahamas have agreed to transfer a related case they’d filed in New York to Delaware, where the company had already filed for bankruptcy protection.
While the embattled company FTX Trading Ltd. had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Nov. 11, the Bahamian liquidators later filed a Chapter 15 suit in the Southern District of New York for FTX Digital Markets, one of the companies under the broader FTX umbrella and the name of the entity located in The Bahamas. The liquidators at the time said FTX, which was headquartered in the Bahamas, was not allowed to file for bankruptcy in the U.S.
Before reaching an agreement on the transfer of the case, FTX filed a complaint seeking a court order to make the liquidators file their Chapter 15 case, which targets cross-border insolvency, in Delaware.
Christian Snowflakes – So Easy to Troll by Saying Jesus was Trans
Church worshippers cried ‘heresy’ at the Dean of Trinity College as they left a sermon claiming Jesus may have been transgender ‘in tears’.
But the view of a transgender Jesus is ‘legitimate’, according to Dr Michael Banner, the Dean who stepped in to defend the claim made at a Sermon last Sunday that Christ had a ‘trans body’.
Song of the Day 11/27: Blind Faith, “Presence of the Lord”
“Presence of the Lord,” Eric Clapton’s contribution to Blind Faith’s only album in 1969, was his first outing as a lyricist. Its message is personal, but Steve Winwood delivers it — Clapton set it in a key (A minor) above what he considered his own range. After Blind Faith’s demise, Clapton started singing it himself, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022
DeSantis’ Role Model–Michael Dukakis? This former R strategist thinks so–with the same result: Not satisfied with the obvious Dukakis-in-the-tank comparisons sparked by DeSantis’ “Top Gov” campaign ad, it’s as though the DeSantis brain trust closely studied past presidential campaigns and picked the Dukakis campaign as their model. Dukakis posed in a tank wearing a helmet. […]
Albert Cummings’ Telepathic Trio Coming To The Arden Gild Hall Next Friday!
Why talk about him when I can just share some of his music with you?: Drummer Warren Grant may well be the best drummer I’ve ever brought to the Hall. Oh, and this time, Albert is bringing perhaps the most in-demand bass player in the entire blues-rock genre. You tell me if you think he’s […]
Song of the Day 11/26: Wilko Johnson, “When I’m Gone”
Regular readers know I consider Dr. Feelgood one of the most important British bands of the 1970s. The creative force behind the punk pioneers, guitarist Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson) died Monday at age 75, nine years after a cancer diagnosis gave him less than a year to live. Johnson stood out for both his […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Russia’s Economy Is Tanking Due, In Large Part, To Western Sanctions: For months, Putin claimed that the “economic blitzkrieg” against Russia had failed, but Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine are digging ever deeper into Russia’s economy, exacerbating equipment shortages for its army and hampering its ability to launch any new ground offensive […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 25, 2022
How Long Could You Survive–In The Quietest Room In The World? Would you literally hear the blood flow through your body? Would your innermost thoughts drive you crazy? From one writer’s semi-hallucinatory experience: Certain people find the promise of such quiet irresistible; it entices them, like a soundless siren call, to visit the building at […]
Biden’s New Push For Assault Weapons Ban is Good Policy and Good Politics
Only extremist gun-nuts & psychos think that assault weapons should be freely available to civilians. Make the GOP run on their absolutist, all chaos, all gun mayhem all the time platform. Biden calls sale of assault weapons “sick” while vowing to ban them after recent shootings “The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Something to give thanks for–while ‘other’ political blogs (are there any?) abandon their readers for Thanksgiving, we here at DL give you top-shelf commentary replete with the snark you’ve come to love. Besides, who wants to watch parades when they could be blogging? OK, enough vamping. Georgia Supreme Court Helps Warnock Campaign. No, not on […]
Always a Delaware Connection
Reports are emerging that the Colorado shooter’s dad Aaron Brink (the guy who on finding out his son murdered people said: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.”) is a former MMA fighter and porn star who has sexually performed under the name of “Dick Delaware.”
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