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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 30, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 30, 20254 Comments

Musk/DOGE's Push For The Privatization Of Public Services: Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets…

Song of the Day 3/29: Cheap Trick, “Surrender”

By Alby March 29, 2025

Major law firms are knuckling under to Trump, but Delaware lawmakers one-upped them: They surrendered to Elon Musk himself. Unfortunately, they fucked up by not following Cheap Trick songwriter Rick…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 29, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 29, 20253 Comments

Meyer Signs Bill, Musk Does This. Coincidence?: Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the…

Song of the Day 3/28: Dave Edmunds, “I Hear You Knocking”

By Alby March 28, 2025

As much as I hate everything involved in the Trump maladministration, this is just sad. In a lame attempt to distract from its national security ineptitude, they tried to send…

Delaware’s Legislators Of The Week: March 25-27, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 28, 20254 Comments

Only three distinguished themselves, all for the same reason. These three legislators brought forward thoughtful and worthwhile improvements to the Musk-Pass SS1/SB 21 bill. These were not, to be clear,…

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…