DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Fourth Estate Becomes The Fourth Reich. Presenting The Brand-New Pentagon Press Corps: Nearly one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials after refusing to…
Song of the Day 10/22: Ryan Adams, “Breakdown”
Ryan Adams, the prolific singer-songwriter and producer whose career was derailed by a #metoo scandal in the Before Times, has long been notorious for odd behavior in concerts – aborting…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
John Carney's First Veto Reinforces Whose Side He's On. It's, uh, not on the side of renters with unresponsive landlords: Last week, Wilmington Mayor John Carney announced he would veto…
Trump Demands DOJ Pay Him $230 Mill For Investigating Him
And the people who will consider approving this deal are all his former defenders who he has now stacked the Justice Department with: President Trump is demanding that the Justice…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
'In Washington, Did Orange Don, His Stately Pleasure Dome Decree'. Construction begins on Trump's oligarch-funded ballroom: The facade of the East Wing of the White House came crumbling down on…
Song of the Day 10/21: Dropkick Murphys, “Smash Shit Up”
The metaphors for Donald Trump's destruction of the United States are getting a little too obvious, aren't they? First he releases a video of himself flying a jet and dumping…
Song of the Day 10/20: Prefab Sprout, “The Best Jewel Thief in the World”
Officials called yesterday's broad-daylight robbery at the Louvre a professional job, but the bandits certainly aren't the best jewel thieves in the world, or they wouldn't have dropped a couple…
DL Open Thread: Monday, October 20, 2025
Prepare For More Of This: Israel on Sunday launched its heaviest wave of attacks on Gaza since a fragile cease-fire took hold a week ago and said it had temporarily…
Song of the Day 10/19: The Offspring, “The Kids Aren’t Alright”
The "young" Republicans – mostly a bunch of chubby mooks in their 30s – revealed themselves as a bunch of wannabe Nazis, crystallizing the reality that demographics won't save democracy.…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 19, 2025
I've shifted to this Sunday Magazine format to give us at least one day a week where the Trump nightmare doesn't override everything else. Yesterday's protests had the same effect. …
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…
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,…
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…