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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 15, 2025
The Big Story: Speaker Minor-Brown Seems Determined To Restore Collegiality To The House. After well over a decade of iron-fisted rule by Pete Schwartzkopf and Val Longhurst, the newly-installed Speaker took great pains yesterday to change the atmosphere of impending doom that had been a hallmark of the Pete/Val years. The floor was chock-full of […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Rethugs Capitulate On Hegseth. You were expecting anything different?: The seriousness and breadth of the allegations against him — from sexual assault to excessive drinking to sheer lack of experience — demand the most searching and responsible of inquiries. Instead, the Hegseth nomination has largely produced reflexive party-line salutes. What unfolded during […]
Song of the Day 1/14: The Kossoy Sisters, “I’ll Fly Away”
Flying away from it all is a pretty common wish these days, and apparently it always has been. Slaves working the fields and prisoners behind bars traditionally invoke that desire, often extolling the path to freedom that leads through the pearly gates. So flying up to heaven was a common trope by the time prolific […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Trump Would Have Been Convicted–DOJ Report: If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday. For 137 pages, Smith detailed the incriminating […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Spoiler Alert: The first two paragraphs of this article have been cut-and-pasted from 2023. With, of course, the dates changed to reflect this year’s legislative calendar. Today’s Opening Session is merely ceremonial. Swearing-in of the Senators and the Reps, followed by receptions, and pictures with families and friends. For all you legislative newbies out there, […]
Song of the Day 1/13: Ian and Sylvia, “Four Strong Winds”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona As the guy who signed and managed Bob Dylan, smart, aggressive, tyrannical Albert Grossman has a big part in the new Dylan movie, “A Complete Unknown.” He was a driving force behind the whole 1960s folk movement. Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary, one of the most important acts of […]
The Final Legislative Pre-File*
*Before the new General Assembly is sworn in tomorrow. They consist of bills filed on January 9 and 10. You can find them all here. The highlight, of course, is the bill creating the Office Of Inspector General: This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 13, 2025
Bannon Vs. Musk. Can we root for two losers?: President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week, Bannon […]
Song of the Day 1/12: The Move, “Fire Brigade”
Those wily Mexicans have launched a new front in their invasion of El Norte: They’ve sent firefighters to help battle the Los Angeles blazes. I don’t know how much it will help in containing the devastation, but it certainly sticks a thumb in the eye of the xenophobic asshole politicians catering to the xenophobic asshole […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Delaware Rethugs Disgrace Themselves: South Carolina House Republican Nancy Mace spoke at a private Delaware GOP event in Newark Friday following controversy with Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Mace filed a bill in November that would ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property that do not correspond with the sex assigned at […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 11, 2025
How Michigan ‘Moderates’ Foiled Progressive Legislative Agenda. Controlled all three branches of government, but watered down agenda for electoral reasons. Then lost: Michigan Democrats led all branches of government for the past two years, for the first time in about four decades, and they started with a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to boot. But the trifecta […]
Song of the Day 1/10: Peter, Paul and Mary, “Puff, the Magic Dragon”
Peter Yarrow, who died earlier this week at age 86, fought a decades-long battle against an insidious rumor: that “Puff, the Magic Dragon” was about marijuana. In his defense, Yarrow pointed out that he wrote the song while an undergraduate at Cornell in 1959, a time and place where marijuana was still rare. The story […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 10, 2025
Supreme Court (Barely) Refuses To Postpone Trump Sentencing. 5-4: A closely divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White […]
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