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The October 18 ‘No Kings’ March Open Thread
Where are you marching? What are you seeing? What are your thoughts and feelings? Celebrity sightings? We’re marching in Wilmington, I plan to wear my sweatshirt with Trump and Putin kissing under the mistletoe. What I DON’T want are speeches by our pathetically-weak Washington delegation, especially Chris Coons. Perhaps there will be a buffet there […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Gee, Look Who Trump Pardoned During The Friday News Dump: Former Representative George Santos of New York, the disgraced Republican fabulist whose lies made him an object of national scorn, was released from a federal prison on Friday night after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence for fraud. His lawyer, Joseph Murray, said that Mr. […]
Song of the Day 10/17: Kiss, “New York Groove”
Ace Frehley, the original guitarist for Kiss, died yesterday at age 74, after suffering a brain bleed in a fall last month at his home recording studio. In a band known mainly for posturing and pyrotechnics, Frehley, a self-taught guitarist whose stage persona was the Spaceman, brought a measure of technical proficiency, even if his […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 16, 2025
1. The Rae Krantz Campaign Goes LIVE! As in right here: When I was disenchanted with my jobs after college, I taught myself the necessary skills to enable a career-change to software development. To make it easier for others to do the same, I then became an advocate for stronger apprenticeship programs in the industry and […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 17, 2025
The Real Commander-In-Chief: You simply must read this profile of Russell Vought, the man who is utterly destroying the Federal government: What Vought has done in the nine months since Trump took office goes much further than slashing foreign aid. Relying on an expansive theory of presidential power and a willingness to test the rule […]
Song of the Day 10/16: Sonic Youth, “Youth Against Fascism”
The fascists running the country now think it’s OK to proclaim their love of Hitler and the Nazis, as evidenced by the reaction of JD Vance to the exposed group chat among the Young Republicans. His claim that it was no big deal is the best possible way for him to say “I’ve said the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Looks Like Trump Is Waging A Covert War Against Venezuela. Will anybody, specifically D’s, utter even a simple bleat about this?: The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader. The authorization is the latest […]
Song of the Day 10/15: Blood, Sweat & Tears, “Go Down Gamblin’”
It just might be that Trump and his MAGA movement aren’t as popular as the mainstream media would have you believe, because a lot of those clicks are from people who hate Trump rather than love him. The latest evidence comes in the form of a Trump specialty, bankruptcy, in this case of Dr. Phil […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Young Rethugs Unmasked As Nazi Wannabes. Politico(?!) breaks the story: NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in […]
Song of the Day 10/14: Pulp, “Common People”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Jarvis Cocker of the British band Pulp was once at a party when a posh girl asked him how to “live like common people do.” He felt a little insulted by the patronizing, but he got a tune called “Common People” out of it. It turned out to be the […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Making Black Lung Great Again: When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry. But on Tuesday dozens of miners and their families will be in a more unusual position: protesting the Trump […]
Song of the Day 10/13: Curtis Mayfield, “We Got to Have Peace”
Give credit where it’s due: Donald Trump has managed to stop the slaughter in Gaza, at least temporarily, and because of his relationships with both Gulf princes and Netanyahu he’s probably the only one who could have pulled it off. Josh Marshall made this point last week: The key here is Trump’s extremely close relationships […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, October 13, 2025
My Thoughts: Thank G-d It’s Over, and Who Will Rebuild Gaza? The orgy of congratulations is at least partially earned, at least on the part of everyone but the genocidal Netanyahu: “Our enemies now understand just how powerful and just how determined Israel is,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “They understand that attacking Israel on […]
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