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BREAKING: Trump ‘Erases Government Power To Fight Climate Change’
From the New York Times: President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and […]
Song of the Day 2/12: 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”
Tragedy has stalked 3 Doors Down, one of the most successful rock bands of the ’00s, yet again. Lead singer and original drummer Brad Arnold, the last original member of what began as a trio, died Saturday of kidney cancer at age 47. Original guitarist Matt Roberts, who left the band in 2012, died in […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
You Helped Kill The Daedalus Proposal. Along with some great reporters who wouldn’t let go of the story. Sarah Mueller: The idea of Daedalus doing business with either state sparked controversy because company executives are profiting from ICE deportations. The proposal drew widespread attention after activists spotted it on the DRBA’s December meeting agenda. Delaware […]
Taxpayer-Funded Bribes Could Only Keep Incyte Here–Until Today
Breaking News from WDEL: Less than two years after buying two downtown Wilmington properties known as Bracebridge I and III on 11th Street at King and French streets, Incyte Corporation announced on Tuesday afternoon, February 11, 2026, that they are selling the buildings to Buccini Pollin Group (BPG). WDEL learned in early December that work […]
Song of the Day 2/11: Pete Seeger, “Little Boxes”
H/t El Somnambulo, who wanted to know if this song was inspired by Levittown, the early suburban development whose 750-square-foot houses would qualify as “tiny homes” today. First off, El Som, no, Burl Ives never sang it. You’re thinking of the version by Pete Seeger, who had his only charting record with the tune – […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
‘Flooding The Zone’ In The Age Of Trump: FBI Takes Marching Orders From Discredited Conspiracy Theorist: The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, […]
Song of the Day 2/10: Frank Sinatra, “Fly Me to the Moon”
After 20 years of blathering about his intention to colonize the Red Planet, big-brained super-genius Elon Musk announced yesterday that because Earth and Mars only align every 26 months, he was switching his focus to the Moon, which is, scientifically speaking, much closer. Of course, that’s been true for hundreds of millions of years, not […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026
Total ‘Victory’ Over Climate Change. As in ‘no more pesky regulations’: In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declaring that global warming posed a “clear and present danger” to the United States. But behind the […]
Song of the Day 2/9: Twisted Sister, “I Wanna Rock”
Try to contain your disappointment: Twisted Sister had to call off its 50th anniversary tour, its first comeback in a decade, because frontman Dee Snider unexpectedly quit, citing his declining health. Per a statement at the band’s web site, Snider suffers from degenerative arthritis and has had several surgeries over the years just to keep […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 9, 2026
Anecdotal Becoming The Empirical, Ctd. There’s only one reason, and it’s not the quality of D candidates, and it’s not that people love the Democratic Party: Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to […]
Song of the Day 2/8: Guy Clark, “Desperados Waiting for a Train”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Texas politics are looking better after a Democrat trounced the MAGA candidate last week in a special election, boosting the party’s chances to gain the House majority in Congressional elections later this year. But Texas being Texas, we can’t always count on the politics there. What we can count on […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: Feb. 8, 2026
Why the Internet sucks, and what we can do about it. A real deep dive, perfect for a lazy Sunday morning: It’s clear something has gone so wrong. But what do we do about it? My guests today have two theories. Cory Doctorow is a longtime blogger, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 7, 2026
He’s In-SA-A-A-A-A-NE. Trump says portraying Obamas as monkeys wasn’t a mistake: President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, but he insisted he had nothing to apologize for even after he deleted the video following an outcry. The clip, set to […]
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