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BREAKING: Camden (DE) Police Department Cuts Deal With ICE
This requires its own thread: Several Delaware civil rights organizations are calling for the town of Camden and its police department to withdraw from a recently adopted agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which allows local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. ICE records show the Camden Police Department signed onto the […]
Song of the Day 5/6: Jake Holmes, “Dazed and Confused”
Led Zeppelin is notorious for claiming writing credit for songs they “borrowed.” It wasn’t just old blues numbers, like turning Willie Dixon’s “You Need Love” into “Whole Lotta Love” and Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor” into “The Lemon Song.” Guitarist Jimmy Page swiped Randy California’s riff for “Stairway to Heaven” and the band turned Moby Grape’s […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
We’ve got at least two games of chicken going on in Dover–the Port vendetta between the State Senate and the Governor, and the battle over how to pay for the FY 2026 budget. The more urgent is the latter, as any prospective resolution over the Edgemoor port expansion will require the courts to sort out […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
You see what Trump’s doing, right? The exact same thing he’s done with his businesses for his entire career. Only with the Justice Department acting as his personal attorneys. He floods the zone with illegality, then he just draws everything out through the courts. Pretty much everything that has reached final resolution, which isn’t all […]
Don’t Tell Anybody…Great Musician To Perform At House Show Here This Saturday!
Probably only available to the first 50 to respond, so keep it to yourself. Well, 46, when you subtract tickets for my wife and I, and for our daughter and son-in-law. A New Jersey date fell through. We received the SOS this morning, and by 3 this afternoon, largely thanks to the quick work of […]
Pre-File Profile: May, 2025
I promised to highlight the most interesting bills that were pre-filed on May 1. Looks more like I will be profiling the least uninteresting bills. There are definitely some good bills, but they are generally incremental in scope. Here goes: HB 132 (Phillips): Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system […]
Song of the Day 5/5: Leon Russell, “Alcatraz”
Having run out of old fixations to issue executive orders about, low-flow toilets have been conquered, Trump unveiled some new ones yesterday, and they’re even dumber than the old ones. A 100% tariff on foreign-produced movies is a non-starter, as there’s no way to apply it and movies are explicitly exempted from the law he’s […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 5, 2025
Trump Abandons Any Pretense Of Ethics, Rakes In Dirty Money From All Over. Trump Cryptocurrency. Trump’s Corrupt Kids: A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s […]
Song of the Day 5/4: Jill Sobule, “America Back”
Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died early Thursday in a house fire in Minnesota. Every obit identifies her by her 1995 single, “I Kissed a Girl,” a queer milestone as the first openly gay-themed song to chart (No. 20 Modern Rock, No. 67 Hot 100). It did catapult her to brief fame, but it was her political […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025
A Cardinal Fan?: Photo: The White House The Musk Myth As Kabuki Theatre? Howzabout a little schadenfreude to start your day?: It’s ornate. It’s stylized. It’s ritualized. And like all Kabuki, it is not meant to reflect reality—it is meant to perform power. But now, the performance is faltering. The cast is walking offstage. The […]
The New Castle County Democratic Convention
Well. That was quite the morning. Let me just say that I might be an unreliable narrator here, since I was there as a participant. And, yes, I won’t bury one of the ledes: I did shout at the Speaker of the House. We’ll get to that. Today’s convention was scheduled to approve proposed rules […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, May 3, 2025
Speed bumps on Newark’s Main Street? There’s pressure to make that happen after a stolen U-Haul van fatally struck a student, eight months after another student was killed by a motorcyclist fleeing from police. Another Trump revenge tantrum executive order has been ruled unconstitutional. People who moaned that the courts are all in Trump’s corner […]
Song of the Day 5/2: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, “The Twist”
Discussing the induction of Chubby Checker into the rock and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nathan Arizona said one song – “The Twist,” obviously – shouldn’t be enough to get someone in. Why not? It already got Hank Ballard inducted. Ballard, who headlined the vocal group the Midnighters, had other hits, but he didn’t […]
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