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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 24, 2025
Births And Deaths By The Numbers: A statistician's treasure trove. The good news? White births can't keep up with white deaths: It’s a winter phenomenon because births tend to surge…
Song of the Day 11/23: Elton John, “Friends”
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shocked most people by getting along – not just politely coexisting, yukking it up together like old friends. Josh Marshall of TPM pointed out that…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: November 23, 2025
Long-time readers know that I am a Sondheim fanatic. I think he's our Shakespeare. He is the first among equals on my musical Mt. Rushmore (along with Curtis Mayfield, Joni…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 22, 2025
You Didn't Think The Supreme Court Would Stop That Texas Gerrymander, Did You? The Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily allowed Texas to use its newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional voting…
Song of the Day 11/21: Booker T. and the M.G.’s, “Hang ‘Em High”
Donald Trump's filter, badly atrophied to begin with, appears to have disappeared entirely with his call for six Democrats in Congress to be hung as traitors. Their "crime"? They recorded…
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 21, 2025
AYFKM? Delaware River And Bay Propping Up ICE Airlines? Once again, Brianna Hill has written a story that makes me angry: Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing…
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 20, 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…