www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Na... gone but not forgotten

Susie Wiles, welcome to the resistance

Damn, it'd be crazy if something very similar to this had been happening for years in Wilmington's white-dominated downtown business districts www.delawareonline.com/story/news/l...

The fruits of today's data cleaning labor: a rough chart showing the contribution of the corp franchise vs other major revenue categories, in terms of a % of total DE state govt revenues, 1880-1940.

Delaware's State Tax Commission in 1940: Graphic design was their passion "State of Delaware: Where the 1940 state dollar came from"

One of the myths of corporate or centrist governance is that it’s more responsible and data-driven. And yet our beloved corporate Wilmington mayor is just making up phantom homeless people from Philly to justify a crackdown that doesn’t address root causes

Very cool that they played this ahead of the Eagles game youtu.be/hdOXfqXJE2s

Starting to suspect this Donald Trump guy might be a pedophile

James you have to stop. Your Speech Too Good. Your Heart Too Pure. Your Civil Service Reform Too Incorruptible. They’ll Kill You.

You don't need to go to Washington to find a elderly real estate developer who abused his executive authority and spent public money to do renovations on a property he has a personal interest in

Under-discussed in the combo blue wave/Dem Tea Party is the active hollowing out of the college-educated workforce through public policy, AI, and general recession conditions which is accelerating the pre-existing trend towards lefty economic ideas and anti-establishment political ideas

Didn't want to speak too soon, but as soon as the people starting forecasting doom for Democrats among Latinos, it made me go back to the 2004 to compare. None of these things are permanent when conditions change, and we can not abandon the necessity of organizing a multiracial working class base.

Zohran Mamdani

A huge day for Bush-era bloggers and their children (me)

MAGA finally gets the cultural victory it’s been craving

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It’s possible I’m missing something, but in my research going back to the 1940s, you can explain the vast majority of the growth of the state budget through either (1) there were more people or (2) the federal government gave us free money to use

I'm a believer in credit where credit is due, and this is the first time in since the pandemic I've seen different parties and branches mobilize to do something drastic that'll really help a lot of people in Delaware spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/29/m...

Rep. John Kowalko passed away at the age of 80. I was honored to have gotten to work with him several times, and felt the need to reflect on his legacy and how it made the work I've chosen possible. delawarecall.com/2025/10/26/k...

Feel like there’s a lot more that has to be said about the man, but not much I feel like I can say tonight beyond Rest In Power, one of the all-time greats www.wdel.com/news/former-...

I think what’s particularly moving about this is that it’s an explicit defense of acceptance and embracing different cultures and people that I grew up believing and see every day in our communities but hasn’t gotten a full-throated political defense in years

This is why we can't let median voters run for office

George Springer

The first ever show designed specifically for me, I appreciate it youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE

Pundits get obsessed with BlueSky for the same reason they get obsessed with elite college campuses: to become a professional pundit you basically have to come from a very specific social strata that is largely liberal, and as pundits appealing to "everyone" they feel a need to be a corrective

The funniest thing about Trump’s new Tylenol obsession is one of our local MAGA influencers who’s been talking about property taxes and Charlie Kirk now has to try to get really offended at TikToks of pregnant women taking a very standard OTC pain medication

Reading this opinion piece in the Delmarva News from 1963, essentially arguing against the state-level version of the Civil Rights Act by complaining that the white activists and Black leaders were being mean and unstrategic. Amazing how this could've been written by a concern-trolling Dem today.

Seventy years ago, Selbyville leaders used racial violence and intimidation to crack down on a strike led by largely Black poultry workers in Sussex County, Delaware. Could be an important story given the times that we're heading into delawarecall.com/2025/09/06/t...

The fun thing about doing Delaware historical research is finding labor stuff that I probably won't use but would've never heard of if I wasn't combing through old sources. In 1953, the CIO led a pretty large, violent strike in Selbyville, DE. Hardly known as a center for union activity.

Given that it's Labor Day, I'll put another plug in for Storm the Fort, the podcast I released with @madinahfordelaware.bsky.social earlier this year which covers the history of the Knights of Labor, America's first national labor organization shows.acast.com/making-the-a...

Trump is making the Phillies play like shit to distract Americans from the fact that it’s Karl and my 2 year anniversary

From the people who don't know about ladders, we present: people who don't know about gloves

We really need to have a big discussion about the drinking culture among Delaware politicos www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2...

I'd write up a whole other new about the special legislative session last night about property taxes, but I think it suffices to just post this again delawarecall.com/2025/06/25/d...

There's a certain type of Delaware political writing that is very simplistic and operates off the assumption that everyone is in on the conversation that the writer is clearly having with their sources. Not as prevalent anymore, but really noticeable when reading things from people like Celia Cohen

I was on the DC Metro last Sunday for a NWSL game and there was a guy that came on the car with a watermelon and no shoes, put the watermelon down, took off his shirt, danced around a bit, and then got off three stops later. The white kids who were singing loudly were infinitely more disruptive.

"As for businesses being 'harassed' by such things as taxes and environmental control regulations, I am sure you will agree with me that both are essential in the best interests of all Delawareans." - Governor Pete du Pont, Delaware's Reagan

Perfect example of the reactionary centrist "it's time to treat these punks the way they deserve" attitude to the left. Of course, it's just the same thing as they've always done with just more words. And my guess is going to be that it doesn't actually appeal to anyone new.

This was made in a very different political moment, but basically explains why I don't think it's worth talking about any ads, no matter how weird or problematic they are. The discourse is part of the advertising. youtu.be/06yy88tLWlg

Historically, a really smart political move is to impoverish and attack all the most educated people in your society. Never has negative consequences

Concern: we are going to kill you Fact: everyone dies at some point

Written in a very different context, but makes me think about this section from Nixon Agonistes. In elite intellectual circles, the mere suggestion that these "heterodox" ideas are part of any more systemic attack with real world harms and consequences is seen as gauche and anti-intellectual.

I'm not an expert on backroom deals, but my understanding is that if you're calling a press conference that does not include any of the people you're supposed to be making backroom deals with, then it probably isn't going well

Populism very notoriously had little to no base in the cities, and William Jennings Bryan made the urban/rural divide a part of his campaigning. Labor populism was a brief flash in the pan in 1894 that never really won a real election.

I've seen this percolating since Bernie's 2016 campaign: FB memes talking about how democratic socialism means things like Social Security and roads. Not necessarily the most accurate but it (1) destigmatizes the term socialism and (2) reinforces that some things are better left outside the market

Great analysis and also kind of a important note for those trying to replicate this elsewhere: most areas are not majority-renter or have renters who are not nearly as organized. It does show how smart the freeze the rent msg was in this context. Different areas just need to find different ideas.