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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 7, 20256 Comments

So. I went online around 2:45 pm yesterday, only to find that the Senate had broken its land-speed record for passing the corporate law package. Gavelled in at 2, agenda…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 7, 202525 Comments

Suh-prize, Suh-prize, It Was Never About Anti-Semitism. Just MAGAts going after an institution they don't like: The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of…

BREAKING: Camden (DE) Police Department Cuts Deal With ICE

By El Somnambulo May 6, 20256 Comments

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.…

Song of the Day 5/6: Jake Holmes, “Dazed and Confused”

By Alby May 6, 2025

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…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 6, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 6, 20252 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 6, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 6, 20257 Comments

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…

Don’t Tell Anybody…Great Musician To Perform At House Show Here This Saturday!

By El Somnambulo May 5, 2025

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…

Pre-File Profile: May, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 5, 20253 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 5/5: Leon Russell, “Alcatraz”

By Alby May 5, 2025

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.…

DL Open Thread: Monday, May 5, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 5, 20254 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 5/4: Jill Sobule, “America Back”

By Alby May 4, 20252 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 4, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 4, 20254 Comments

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…

The New Castle County Democratic Convention

By El Somnambulo May 3, 202520 Comments

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…