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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

By El Somnambulo October 22, 20258 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo October 21, 20253 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo October 21, 20258 Comments

'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”

By Alby October 21, 20252 Comments

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”

By Alby October 20, 2025

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

By El Somnambulo October 20, 20254 Comments

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”

By Alby October 19, 2025

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

By El Somnambulo 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

By El Somnambulo October 18, 202514 Comments

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

By El Somnambulo 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”

By Alby October 17, 2025

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…

Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 16, 2025

By El Somnambulo October 17, 202511 Comments

1. The Rae Krantz Campaign Goes LIVE! As in right here: When I was disenchanted with my jobs after college, I taught myself the necessary skills to enable a career-change to…

DL Open Thread: Friday, October 17, 2025

By El Somnambulo October 17, 20254 Comments

The Real Commander-In-Chief: You simply must read this profile of Russell Vought, the man who is utterly destroying the Federal government: What Vought has done in the nine months since…