Song of the Day 4/26: Nirvana, “Lithium”
H/t El Somnambulo's Sunday magazine item about lithium mining. Rechargeable batteries weren't on Kurt Cobain's mind when he wrote this "Nevermind" track in 1990 – back then lithium was best…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: April 26, 2026
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Do You Have A 'Floordrobe'? This guy says it's a sign of ADHD: Do you ever delay putting away clean laundry or unworn outfits from a vacation and instead keep…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 25, 2026
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Delaware Challenges ICE Access To Employer Records. Good: Gov. Matt Meyer’s opposition to giving ICE investigators wage records for 15 Delaware businesses hasn’t changed, even after a federal judge ordered…
Song of the Day 4/24: Spoon, “My Mathematical Mind”
Donald Trump, who likes to brag about going to Penn's Wharton School, is obviously bad at math – how else could he go bankrupt running casinos? He has repeatedly demonstrated…
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 24, 2026
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John Carney--'Laugh At Indivisible Delaware, But Don't Laugh At Me'. I can't make this stuff up. From what passes for his Administration: Wilmington, Del. — The City of Wilmington is inviting…
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 23, 2026
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1. Deb Heffernan Announces Retirement. This is big. Big big. I had learned while campaigning for Becca Cotto back in 2022 that Heffernan had a lot of residual goodwill in that…
BREAKING: Rep. Deb Heffernan Announces Retirement!
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You know what to do. Here's where you do it: https://www.raefordelaware.com/ You just know that the Finnigans and the Byrds will be looking for an easily-malleable insider to try to…
Song of the Day 4/23: Dave Mason, “Only You Know and I Know”
Dave Mason, the British guitarist who cofounded the psychedelic band Traffic before embarking on a solo career, died Sunday at 79. Mason wrote some classic rock staples that were bigger…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 23, 2026
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It's more challenging writing an interesting legislative piece on Thursdays. Little, other than committee hearings, happens on Wednesdays. And there are no committee meetings on Thursdays. Basically, the agendas are…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Carney To Kill Roberto Clemente League? All because of $30,000? That's--Carneyesque: "We don't even know if our league can survive, just paying the fees to pay for the policing." That's…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 22, 2026
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Oops, I missed something yesterday and, for the newbies, this will (very narrowly) expand your knowledge base. The House ran a Consent Agenda on Tuesday. A consent agenda consists of…
Song of the Day 4/22: The Rainmakers, “Drinkin’ on the Job”
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If Kash Patel didn't want reporters to look into his drinking, maybe he shouldn't have guzzled beer with the U.S. hockey team at the Olympics. It would have been a…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Virginia Voters Approve Congressional Redistricting: Democrats maintained their electoral momentum on Tuesday by securing the passage of an aggressively gerrymandered House map in Virginia, which could deliver the party up…