DL Open Thread: Monday, January 27, 2025
War With Colombia Averted! Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation…
Song of the Day 1/26: Cheap Perfume, “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis”
Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 6: Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical…
Song of the Day 1/25: Willie Nelson, “I Gotta Get Drunk”
Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a…
Song of the Day 1/24: Stan Rogers, “Barrett’s Privateers”
It's said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, "Oh, the year was 1778," you're sure to be answered, "How I wish I was in…
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 24, 2025
Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural... W-wait. That can't be, it must be an optical illusion. You know, like, what's it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps? Perhaps this…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Spotlight Delaware has today's Big Story--aka Bethany Hall Long proves herself to be a political hack to the very end. I had seen the nominations to the Wilmington Port Corporation…
Song of the Day 1/23: John Anderson, “Down in the Orange Grove”
Best way to cope with the firehose of MAGA sewage spewing from the media is to skip stories about what might happen or what various things could mean, stick to…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Post-Democratic America Day--Day Three. Federal civil rights cases quashed? Check. Science silenced? Check. Career National Security Staff sent home? Check. The real Trump Bible is Project 2025. Oh, well, at…
Song of the Day 1/22: The Band, “The Genetic Method”
Everybody calls Garth Hudson, who died yesterday at 87, the Band's secret weapon, but anybody who knows the Band at all knows he was far from secret. Fans knew he…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 22, 2025
The Big News: Senate Executive Committee Starts Three Days Of Hearings On Gov. Meyer's Nominees. I'll link to the schedules for the nominees later in this article. But, first, yesterday's…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Post-Democratic America--Day Two: Turn Department Of Justice Into Department Of Retribution? Check: New acting leaders at the Justice Department moved quickly to shuffle at least 20 career officials, according to…