Recent Articles
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 29, 2025
Hegseth Commits War Crimes: The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive,according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” […]
Song of the Day 11/28: Jesse Welles, “Join ICE”
Jesse Welles might seem like an overnight sensation, but like most overnight sensations it took him more than a decade to get to the big night. Now he’s there, capturing four Grammy nominations, equalling the number of albums he’s released this year. The nominations are for “Horses” as the best Americana performance, “Middle” as best […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 28, 2025
Idle Thought: Every single day, Trump says and/or does stuff that show he is unfit to be President. Some enterprising Democrat with a platform (Newsom is doing it to some extent, but not particularly related to the 25th Amendment) should hold a daily press briefing calling out Trump’s unfitness for office based on the stuff […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 27, 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 […]
Song of the Day 11/27: Big Star, “Thank You Friends”
Finding stuff to feel thankful for might be more difficult than usual this year, but you can take some inspiration from Alex Chilton, who wrote “Thank You Friends” for Big Star’s third album and then saw it sit on a shelf unreleased for years. Big Star’s first two albums were widely admired but sold miserably […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving! Made even better b/c my daughter and son-in-law are now hosting, and that we’re having pulled pork, not turkey. BTW, you never know–you might want to read b/c this could be the best Open Thread I ever wrote…not likely, but still: Two Guardsmen Shot In DC–The story is unusual, to say the least. As […]
Song of the Day 11/26: Darrell Scott, “The Day Before Thanksgiving”
Some years you just can’t get into the holiday spirit. Darrell Scott knows just how that feels, and he wrote a song about it that appeared on his 2010 album “A Crooked Road.” He uses his doubts about the Thanksgiving story to express doubts about his own. There’s not much chance of it turning up […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Has Al (Not A I) used Ballroom Blitz yet?: President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal […]
Song of the Day 11/25: Jimmy Cliff, “Many Rivers to Cross”
Jimmy Cliff, who died last week at 81, did more than anyone outside Bob Marley to popularize the music of Jamaica, and not just with his songs. His fame came in large part from his cinematic star turn in “The Harder They Come,” a 1972 crime drama about a musician-turned-drug runner whose song becomes a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2025
Batshit-Crazy Defense Secretary ‘Investigates’ Senator/Military Veteran For ‘Sedition’: The Pentagon has launched an investigation into Mark Kelly after purportedly receiving “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Democratic senator from Arizona — an extraordinary use of authority to investigate a combat veteran and prominent critic of the Trump administration. The announcement Monday follows a video posted […]
BREAKING: Judge Throws Out Comey And James Cases–Rules That Lindsay Halligan Was Hired Illegally
Here’s the story: A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both […]
Song of the Day 11/24: Weezer, “Undone – The Sweater Song”
MAGA men sure are easily ruffled. The latest threat to MAGAsculinity is…a pink sweater. J Crew, known for its preppy aesthetic, is selling one in wool, with a Fair Isle yoke. Its very existence has offended the delicate sensibilities of the manly men of MAGA. We learned this when an outrage-seeking influencer on the RWNJ […]
Who Are YOUR DL MVP’s For 2025?
‘MVP’ stands for ‘Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause’ in Delaware. Your deadline for submissions is December 15. Remember that the criteria is solely what your choices did this year to earn consideration. So please suggest names and share why you think they deserve inclusion. While it’s ultimately ‘my list’, in recent years, the vast […]
Recent Comments