On April 18, 1988, something astounding happened in Delaware. In the deepest depths of an era focused on catering to business and wealthy white residents, Rev. Jesse Jackson pulled off an upset victory in the Democratic caucus for president in the corporate capital. (1/5)

I’m going to put all these Gavin Newsom 2028 and AOC 2028 discourse to shame by starting the Graham Platner 2028 discourse

They're calling it the most exciting Super Bowl of all time

We will not rest until every NJ congressional district is held by a former WFP state director

It is funny how much discourse there is on the left about the lack of an American socialist or labor party when all of those European parties swung right basically as much as the American ones did around the same time, and many are even worse than the Democrats now jacobin.com/2026/02/labo...

“Pedophile also racist” is a real dog bites man story

A big part of the internal mythos of Trump 2.0 was that they were going to redo the 2020 protests but "do it right" by using violence against protesters. Now that they have actually done that, and it turns out that it is making them even more unpopular and creating an even larger swing in opinion.

People making fun of this, but Rahm Emmanuel is a certified expert in regimes where law enforcement agencies kill people will impunity

"I love the status quo!" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank you @mcbride.house.gov!

It was not nearly as high stakes as any of the notorious cases of this, but I've experienced this firsthand. Was parked behind my church one night (was in a rough emotional state and looking for somewhere quiet) and got the cops called on me. He flashed a bright light and started yelling at me.

Just finished this and it does a pretty decent job of explaining the story of how this happened

To be fair, x.com does sound like the kind of place someone would to get CSAM so everything’s working out as expected

Bill Clinton was Jimmy Carter’s Wario

My take on the campaign strategy discourse is that political campaigns are essentially battles for the fraction of your consciousness that most people devote to this stuff. All of us have lots going on in our lives, and so the vast majority of people, even regular voters, don't do in-depth research.

One of the richest documents in Delaware history: a radio ad where Joe Biden accused his opponent of being out of touch because he associated heroin with jazz digitalcollections.udel.edu/Documents/De...

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...

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.

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...