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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Yep, Trump’s Deporting Folks Without Due Process. Courts be damned: As protests over workplace raids in California’s largest city continued Monday and the Pentagon announced it would be sending 700 Marines to backstop National Guard troops, immigration lawyers, advocates and relatives were scrambling to find information about those detained. Mexico’s foreign minister said four immigrants […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
“Now the race is on, and here comes pride down the backstretch, heartache is movin’ to the inside.” And the winner loses all? I report, you decide. June in Dover is a race run in fits and starts–some of the fits thrown by legislators. Some of the starts false. Broken up by interminable caucuses (cauci?). […]
Song of the Day 6/9: Garland Jeffreys, “Wild in the Streets”
Thanks to the Trump administration’s desire to declare marshal martial law and its constant need to change the subject from its latest fuck-up, the excitable homunculi in charge are treating localized vandalism in Los Angeles as if it were the Watts Riots. We should have learned from protests in Portland a few years back that […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 9, 2025
“ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACEMASKS NOW!”. Trump on Truth Social. Isn’t that what the protestors are calling for as well? The Needless Confrontation Trump Wanted, Perhaps Needed: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the federal action “purposefully inflammatory” and said that it would “only escalate tensions.” The governor also noted this deployment of soldiers is “not […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 8, 2025
Artist Of The Week: Sebastiao Salgado. Never have I seen such incredible photography, imbued with such deep humanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QgUFh27ryU A profound artist who led a meaningful life. Please watch. You’ll be blown away. You’re A Genius. So what?: Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In […]
Song of the Day 6/7: Rilo Kiley, “Breakin’ Up”
The media is intent on milking this Trump-Musk feud for all it’s worth – schadenfreude might bring in as many clicks as rage does, or at least they hope so. Trump helpfully called reporters, even ones he doesn’t like, to dunk on Elon. Which they dutifully reported. Rilo Kiley released this song on their 2007 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned To The US. Putting the lie to this. And this. Let me just say this–On a day when convicted Proud Boys file suit against the Department Of Justice, Garcia should get the finest attorneys who haven’t been co-opted by Trump to file the Biggest, Most Beautiful, lawsuit against all of these […]
Song of the Day 6/6: Neil Sedaka, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
I’m not convinced it’s permanent, but the Trump-Musk breakup looks real – it’s apparently costing both of them money, and I can’t imagine they’d take kayfabe that far. I can imagine it getting uglier, though, given Trump’s uncharacteristic restraint so far and Musk’s invocation of the Epstein Files. Everyone knows breaking up is hard to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 6, 2025
We start, of course, with a Book Report. With a shout-out to Jill, who hated Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’. Jill recommended ‘Long Bright River’ by Liz Moore. So, I checked it out of the library, and read it. Jill was spot-on. The protagonist is a policewoman who patrols the drug-riddled streets of Kensington. There’s a killer who is murdering […]
Song of the Day 6/5: Heart, “Barracuda”
Lots of rock musicians have careers that read like soap operas, but few bands have had more bad luck than Heart. Ann and Nancy Wilson had to overcome industry misogyny, record company lawsuits and broken love affairs – and that was just in Heart’s first few years together in the ’70s. The band has broken […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Judge James E. Boasberg Is My New Hero: A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to take steps toward giving nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law the due process that they had been denied. In a sweeping and at […]
How Are We Coming With That ‘Transparency Agenda’?
How Are We Coming With That Transparency Agenda? Yeah, yeah, I’m quoted in the article, but that’s not the point. While there’s certainly been progress, especially with the imminent passage of the Inspector General bill, and the legislative steps taken to shine a light on double-dippers, we also had a distinct lack of transparency on […]
Ladeez And Gentlemen: YOUR FY 2026 State Budget
The Joint Finance Committee concluded their mark-up two days early, setting off the annual round of self-congratulations: Following this week’s budget markup hearings of the Joint Finance Committee, House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown, Senate President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola, House Majority Leader Kerri Evelyn Harris, Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend, House Majority Whip Ed Osienski, and Senate Majority Whip […]
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