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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…

DL Open Thread Saturday, May 3, 2025

By Alby May 3, 20256 Comments

Speed bumps on Newark's Main Street? There's pressure to make that happen after a stolen U-Haul van fatally struck a student, eight months after another student was killed by a…

Song of the Day 5/2: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, “The Twist”

By Alby May 2, 2025

Discussing the induction of Chubby Checker into the rock and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nathan Arizona said one song – "The Twist," obviously – shouldn't be enough to…

DL Open Thread: Friday, May 2, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 2, 20252 Comments

Trump Judge Declares Trump Deportation Policy Illegal: A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants. US District Judge…

Song of the Day 5/1: Ed Pickford, “The Workers’ Song”

By Alby May 1, 20251 Comment

It's International Workers' Day, something Americans don't observe – socialism has never appealed to a nation full of millionaires-in-waiting. Well, too bad, capitalist scum. It's unlikely the workers of the…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 1, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 1, 202516 Comments

Satire Is Dead: Port Of Wilmington Edition. General Assembly creates a task force with no legal authority, 'Honorables' feign anger when Governor's people don't show up: The inaugural meeting on…