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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 28, 20256 Comments

Trump's Just Doing Weird Stuff Now. Like this: The “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 27, 20258 Comments

Looks like the Honorables are gonna make a swift getaway. The General Assembly will not meet next week as Bond Bill deliberations will instead take center stage. As often is…

Song of the Day 3/27: Townes Van Zandt, “Pancho and Lefty”

By Alby March 27, 202511 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Townes Van Zandt’s life and career were too erratic to earn him much credit for his fantastic songs, except from other singers of folkish country…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 27, 20252 Comments

Yet One More 'Disappearance', Captured On Tape: As Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk made her way to an interfaith center to break the Ramadan fast on Tuesday, plainclothes agents, some…

Song of the Day 3/26: Leonard Cohen, “The Partisan”

By Alby March 26, 20251 Comment

The American resistance to the Trump/Musk fascist takeover has yet to get organized, but the torching of Tesla dealerships shows the will to sabotage already exists. What we don't yet…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 26, 202510 Comments

No pre-game show today. No agendas being run, committee meeting results can wait until tomorrow. I can't recall a more telling, debate is not the correct word, example of kabuki…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 26, 20256 Comments

This thread may be shorter than usual. There is just so much to unwind about the House 'debate' on the Musk-Pass bill that I found it hard to sleep last night.…

Song of the Day 3/25: Dan Wilson, “A Song Can Be About Anything”

By Alby March 25, 2025

Guest post by Nathan Arizona About a week ago the‘’90s band Semisonic denounced Trump for using its Grammy-nominated song “Closing Time” in an anti-immigrant video that spread a message opposite…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 25, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 25, 20253 Comments

Everything Falls Apart: 1. Trump Bozos Share War Plans With Journalist Over Unsecured Server. They, of course, had no idea they had invited a journalist. Will Waltz take the fall? Hegseth…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 25, 202514 Comments

The Big Story: 'Musk-Pass' Bill Surfaces On House Agenda. It took until about 24 hours before today's session, but the Speaker finally released the House Agenda and, yes, SS1/SB 21 is…

Song of the Day 3/24: Jefferson Airplane, “It’s No Secret”

By Alby March 24, 2025

The second Trump administration is incompetents all the way down. The latest example: National Security Adviser Michael Waltz added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on Signal. Goldberg…

The FIRST Delaware Occasional Political (Non-)Weekly Of The 2026 Cycle: Nov. 2024 to March 23, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 24, 202511 Comments

Presented to you, for now, whenever the occasion warrants it. I think you'll agree that that time is now. Let me start with a message to D challengers who intend…

DL Open Thread: Monday, March 24, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 24, 20256 Comments

Yes, Trump Is Serious About Greenland: Relations between Greenland and the United States sank further on Sunday as the Greenlandic prime minister erupted over what he called a “highly aggressive”…