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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

Wednesday was basically a committee day with a handful of non-controversial bills being worked in the Senate. Here is yesterday's Session Activity Report. Today's Senate Agenda features two House bills…

Song of the Day 5/8: Luke Bryan, “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old”

By Alby May 8, 20256 Comments

It doesn't get any easier no matter how old you get. Mine was a corgi named Mackie – formally, Honeyfox Four on the Floor – and after 14 1/2 years…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025

By El Somnambulo May 8, 20259 Comments

'That Boy Ain't Right'. We're talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his…

Song of the Day 5/7: The Miracles, “I’ve Been Good to You”

By Alby May 7, 2025

Smokey Robinson, composer of umpteen romantic soul classics, was sued yesterday by four former housekeepers who accuse him of sexual assault and rape, among a raft of other charges. He…

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.…