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Who Are YOUR DL MVP’s For 2025?

By El Somnambulo November 24, 202513 Comments

'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

By El Somnambulo November 24, 202512 Comments

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”

By Alby November 23, 20252 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo November 23, 202511 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo November 22, 20253 Comments

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”

By Alby November 21, 20253 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo November 21, 20256 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo November 21, 202511 Comments

“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…

Song of the Day 11/20: Gordon Lightfoot, “Sundown”

By Alby November 20, 2025

Most of what Trump does would be considered "erratic behavior" in other adults, even members of Congress, but it's all normal for him. He's acted this way for years, so…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 20, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 20, 20256 Comments

Absolute Corruption: Kyle Lutnick, the 29-year-old scion of his family’s real estate business, traveled in July to Amarillo, Texas, to walk a dusty tract of land with the head of…

Song of the Day 8/19: The Beatles, “Piggies”

By Alby November 19, 20252 Comments

Given all the classless acts on Donald Trump's record, calling a female reporter "piggy" would seem to rank on the low end of the scale, the kind of low-level insult…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

By El Somnambulo November 19, 20258 Comments

Welcome To Avelo, 'America's Most Famous Deportation Airline'. Apparently, also America's most dangerous deportation airline: In a memo to staff on October 30, Avelo Airlines’ head of flight operations Scott…

Don’t Be A Sucker–Trump’s Not Folding On Epstein Files

By El Somnambulo November 18, 20251 Comment

Not by a long shot. Here's his latest 'out': But here’s the thing: Even if Trump is forced to sign it to keep up the appearance of having dodged a…