Delware Liberal
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Delaware Liberal is a political news and opinion blog that concentrates primarily on local Delaware politics, but also on national politics. Also, they are liberal, progressive, and Democratic, and thus their take on events will, unlike the mainstream media, have a liberal bias.
Delware Liberal
1h ago
It looks like Elizabeth Holmes is finally headed to prison for defrauding investors (who included Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos so, y’know, limited sympathy) with her bogus blood-testing device. Will she really serve 11 years? My Magic 8-Ball says “outlook not so good,” but I’m not going to take the chance I’d have to wait ..read more
Delware Liberal
6h ago
Trump and Desantis both loudly in favor of US credit default which would destroy world financial markets, crash the dollar and put millions of people out of work. Biden gets to run against one of them. ______________________________ Rich White Women, Elizabeth Holmes, reports to actual prison today The Theranos founder turned convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes ..read more
Delware Liberal
23h ago
Chris Coons is roughly my age. He was born in ’63. He shouldn’t be in lockstep with the oldsheads, but he is. Senator Elect, Blunt Rochester was born in ’62. She is also old beyond her years. The biggest divide in the Democratic Party at this point is not liberals versus moderates. It’s age. It’s ..read more
Delware Liberal
23h ago
Being a proud lefty I sometimes get distracted by what we haven’t yet accomplished (like socialized medicine, gun safety, housing security, worker’s rights, living wages, etc), and so I forget that leftists are an omnipotent behemoth bestriding American politics like a colossus. Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski Desantis says Good Morning: “I will serve two terms, and ..read more
Delware Liberal
1d ago
Fifty years ago last week, a new record label debuted with an unusual offering — an LP that consisted of two side-long compositions by a 19-year-old guitarist, Mike Oldfield, who played all the instruments himself. And the only vocals were a couple of minutes of caveman-like grunts deep into side 2. Though it was introduced ..read more
Delware Liberal
1d ago
Happy Memorial Day. We overcame our isolation and nativism to fight two good wars in Europe. We got some good movies and songs out of the last one and were clearly the good guys. Then we pretended to still be the good guys for a while in Korea which was a draw, and VietNam which ..read more
Delware Liberal
2d ago
Biden Breaks Word, Negotiates With Terrorists, Cuts Shitty Deal. Retire, you fucking old fart!: President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” on Saturday to raise the debt ceiling and cap federal spending, clinching a critical first step toward preventing a government default that could be nine days away. The ..read more
Delware Liberal
3d ago
The News Journal’s Ryan Cormier has a paywalled story about the latest trend in college drinking in Newark, where the University of Delaware apparently remains among the nation’s top party schools. It seems bars have improved their ability to screen out underage drinkers, so students have hopped on a TikTok-fueled trend — they fill gallon ..read more
Delware Liberal
3d ago
D’s Ignored Yellen, Now Paying Debt Ceiling Ransom. Can’t anybody here play this game?: In the days after November’s midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about the fact that Democrats had performed better than expected and maintained control of the Senate. But as she traveled to the Group of 20 leaders ..read more
Delware Liberal
4d ago
This week’s Highland’s Bunker is a tough, unflinching view of the Delaware’s penal system from the inside. Tortious and dehumanizing by design, it is a system we all endorse every election day with our votes, and every non-election day with our silence. E244 – Quality of Life (w/ Hasini Perkins) ACLU Racial justice organizer Hasini Perkins ..read more