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BREAKING: Housing Advocates Release Their Plan On Homelessness
And, yes, it differs greatly from what John Carney and Claire DeMatteis have schemed out. Here is the press release in its entirety: Housing Advocates Share Their Own Recommendations for Addressing Homelessness WILMINGTON, DE September, 2025 — On Tuesday September 30th several homelessness advocates, including Housing Alliance Delaware, Friendship House, H.O.M.E.S. Campaign, Delaware Poor People’s […]
Song of the Day 9/30: Jesse Welles, “Tylenol”
Anyone who thinks the Trump Era calls for protest songs by folk singers should check out Jesse Welles. The 32-year-old Arkansas native has been releasing pointedly snarky tunes about timely for several months now. This one just dropped yesterday. A lot of people compare Welles with Bob Dylan, but his career arc has been the […]
Whoa–Blue Delaware Gets Outed–And How
Just-wow. Got this in my e-mailbox this morning. I’m cutting and pasting the entire thing because I couldn’t find it on the Downballot website: I discovered something yesterday that gutted me: A site called Blue Delaware has been stealing our content all year—verbatim, hundreds of words at a time—and publishing it as their own. After […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The Real Reason Trump Invaded Portland: Portland authorities are in a standoff with the Trump administration over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in the Oregon city, after an investigation found the administration is using the facility for overnight detentions, in violation of its city-issued permits. The standoff comes amid threats from Donald […]
Song of the Day 9/29: Prefab Sprout, “Looking for Atlantis”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Would Cole Porter name his band Prefab Sprout? Probably not. But Paddy McAloon, leader of that British pop-rock group, has drawn comparisons to Porter for the clever and sophisticated music his band made in the ’80s. Also to Stephen Sondheim. Wait. Cole Porter’s a stretch, but Stephen Sondheim is ridiculous. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, September 29, 2025
I think that Trump’s madness is hitting critical mass. This might well be the week when enough people wake up and realize that he is utterly unfit to be President. There are just too many signs of his descent into insanity for even the press, and perhaps, Rethugs, to ignore. I’m serious. Pretty sure the first Trump […]
Song of the Day 9/28: Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, “Portland, Oregon, You’re My Home”
Donald Trump, deep into the dementia that has stalked him for years, has declared Portland, Ore., a war zone, so he’s sending in the troops. There’s no evidence here on Real Earth than Portland is anything but the weird, rainy city it’s always been, but it has loomed large in the right-wing imagination since the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: September 28, 2025
How To Grow Your Own Meat (Not A Penile Enlargement Come-On): The Shojinmeat Project helps people grow their own meat, almost like a plant, without an animal having to die. It’s called cultivated meat, and it’s made by taking a few animal cells and helping them grow in a tank called a bioreactor. It’s real […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 27, 2025
A Very Special Absolute Corruption Edition: Trump Fired US Attorney For Following The Law: For 15 years, Michele Beckwith oversaw some of the toughest federal prosecutions in California. She went after transnational terrorists, sex traffickers and the Aryan brotherhood. She became the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento this year when her boss, a Biden appointee, stepped down […]
Song of the Day 9/26: Robert Johnson, “Come On In My Kitchen”
Looks like Big Cabinet caught Trump’s ear, and those just-announced 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are going to cost homebuilders and remodelers, not to mention homeowners, even more than Trumpflated groceries. Trump says it will bring employment to places like the Carolinas and Michigan, where I’m sure they’ll be excited to get […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 26, 2025
Trump Prosecutes Political Enemies. Remember the events–prosecutor declines to go after Comey and Letitia James because the cases are either weak or non-existent. Trump fires him, replaces him with someone with no prosecutorial experience: A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless demand […]
Song of the Day 9/25: Cat Stevens, “The Hurt”
The musician known as Yusuf/Cat Stevens was scheduled to kick off the American leg of his current tour in Philadelphia Oct. 2, but it seems the show is likely to be delayed if not cancelled. His Instagram account announced that his “Cat On The Road To Findout — An Evening Of Tales, Tunes, And Other […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 25, 2025
The REAL Reason John Carney Wants To Address Homelessness. Spoiler Alert: It has nothing to do with any concern Carney might have about homeless people as people: That’s right. If you know the location, you understand Carney’s sudden urgency on the issue. He wants to move ‘undesirables’ out of the turf being claimed by Buccini-Pollin. […]
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