Dael Norwood
@dael.bsky.social
Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
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Dael Norwood
@dael.bsky.social
· Jul 14
The Best Thing to Ever Happen to the State of … Delaware?
This post argues that the forces pushing DExit – and thus the death of the corporate franchise –cannot be appeased by Delaware, so we must consider the future without the franchise ourselves,…
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A moderate-length but immodest proposal: it's time for Delawareans to start planning for a future beyond the corporate franchise – and we need to do it before angry billionaires force it on us first.
Student journalism on this matter, revealing discrepancies between UD’s statements & practice:
“Despite the formal contract ending, the university football team has been reported by the Delaware Stop Avelo Coalition to have been boarding an Avelo plane at Wilmington Airport in August of this year.”
“Despite the formal contract ending, the university football team has been reported by the Delaware Stop Avelo Coalition to have been boarding an Avelo plane at Wilmington Airport in August of this year.”
Local interest groups protest the university’s use of Avelo Airlines amid deportations | The Review
udreview.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Student journalism on this matter, revealing discrepancies between UD’s statements & practice:
“Despite the formal contract ending, the university football team has been reported by the Delaware Stop Avelo Coalition to have been boarding an Avelo plane at Wilmington Airport in August of this year.”
“Despite the formal contract ending, the university football team has been reported by the Delaware Stop Avelo Coalition to have been boarding an Avelo plane at Wilmington Airport in August of this year.”
It’s a very big deal that Spotlight reporters published details about how and how much public money is being spent to support ICE’s favored airline.
Why? Bc the body gifting ICE Air all this public cash – the Delaware River and Bay Authority, or DRBA – is an oversight black hole.
Why? Bc the body gifting ICE Air all this public cash – the Delaware River and Bay Authority, or DRBA – is an oversight black hole.
“Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for operating deportation flights for the Trump administration.“
Amid ICE controversy, public dollars pay for Avelo marketing in Delaware
Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for op...
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/11/20/amid-ice-controversy-public-dollars-pay-for-avelo-marketing-in-delaware/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=✈%EF%B8%8F%20Public%20funds%20pay%20Avelo%20marketing%20despite%20outcry%3B%20Data%20center%20vote%20delayed&utm_campaign=11%2020%2025%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It’s a very big deal that Spotlight reporters published details about how and how much public money is being spent to support ICE’s favored airline.
Why? Bc the body gifting ICE Air all this public cash – the Delaware River and Bay Authority, or DRBA – is an oversight black hole.
Why? Bc the body gifting ICE Air all this public cash – the Delaware River and Bay Authority, or DRBA – is an oversight black hole.
“Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for operating deportation flights for the Trump administration.“
Amid ICE controversy, public dollars pay for Avelo marketing in Delaware
Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for op...
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/11/20/amid-ice-controversy-public-dollars-pay-for-avelo-marketing-in-delaware/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=✈%EF%B8%8F%20Public%20funds%20pay%20Avelo%20marketing%20despite%20outcry%3B%20Data%20center%20vote%20delayed&utm_campaign=11%2020%2025%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Public money is quietly funding a half-million-dollar annual marketing campaign for Avelo Airlines’ Delaware operations, even as the company faces mounting criticism in the state and nationally for operating deportation flights for the Trump administration.“
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The people of Raleigh learned from the example set by the people of Los Angeles and Chicago. If ICE shows up in your town, learn from our example. Show up. Make your voices heard. Defend your neighbors.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The people of Raleigh learned from the example set by the people of Los Angeles and Chicago. If ICE shows up in your town, learn from our example. Show up. Make your voices heard. Defend your neighbors.
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"Milo Baynes, 53, drove to the Raleigh protest from Caswell County wearing an inflatable chicken costume and holding a sign that said 'Deport Ice' on one side and 'Monsters are governing America' on the other. ...
“Raleigh police officers stopped traffic and protected the protesters."
Signs, chants and anger fill Raleigh streets as Border Patrol targets Charlotte
Protest draws hundreds downtown, where speakers urged people to defend immigrants and pressure political leaders
www.newsobserver.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Milo Baynes, 53, drove to the Raleigh protest from Caswell County wearing an inflatable chicken costume and holding a sign that said 'Deport Ice' on one side and 'Monsters are governing America' on the other. ...
“Raleigh police officers stopped traffic and protected the protesters."
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Lawyers learning history
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Lawyers learning history
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Henry Box Brown would be proud
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Henry Box Brown would be proud
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My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
Why are oligarchs increasingly shameless about the pressure they're putting on the Delaware political establishment to remove every restraint (however flimsy or self-evidently ridiculous) on investor-managers & controllers? Well,
Maybe collectivist thinking is spreading anew.
Definitely this generation of oligarchs, not unlike the Versailles Courtiers of the 1780s, are so decadently assured in their power, they no longer appreciate whisperers like Summers, or bards like Milton Friedman.
Greedheadery is naked again.
Definitely this generation of oligarchs, not unlike the Versailles Courtiers of the 1780s, are so decadently assured in their power, they no longer appreciate whisperers like Summers, or bards like Milton Friedman.
Greedheadery is naked again.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Why are oligarchs increasingly shameless about the pressure they're putting on the Delaware political establishment to remove every restraint (however flimsy or self-evidently ridiculous) on investor-managers & controllers? Well,
“…for such searches, police are simply prompted to enter text into a "reason" field in the Flock Safety system. Usually this is only a few words–or even just one.
In these cases, that word was often just “protest.” “
In these cases, that word was often just “protest.” “
“Delaware State Police queried the Flock national network nine times in March 2025 related to DxE actions, logging reasons such as "DxE Protest Suspect Vehicle." DxE advocates told EFF that these searches correspond to an investigation the organization undertook of a Mountaire Farms facility.“
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national ...
www.eff.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“…for such searches, police are simply prompted to enter text into a "reason" field in the Flock Safety system. Usually this is only a few words–or even just one.
In these cases, that word was often just “protest.” “
In these cases, that word was often just “protest.” “
“Delaware State Police queried the Flock national network nine times in March 2025 related to DxE actions, logging reasons such as "DxE Protest Suspect Vehicle." DxE advocates told EFF that these searches correspond to an investigation the organization undertook of a Mountaire Farms facility.“
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national ...
www.eff.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Delaware State Police queried the Flock national network nine times in March 2025 related to DxE actions, logging reasons such as "DxE Protest Suspect Vehicle." DxE advocates told EFF that these searches correspond to an investigation the organization undertook of a Mountaire Farms facility.“
Reposted by Dael Norwood
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
The prediction betting site / ostensible futures market, Kalshi Inc., is of course a Delaware registered entity (file no. 7149936, reg. agent The Company Corporation)
(The sneaker market platform that Kalshi partnered with to offer New Balance futures, StockX LLC, is a Michigan domiciled company)
(The sneaker market platform that Kalshi partnered with to offer New Balance futures, StockX LLC, is a Michigan domiciled company)
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The prediction betting site / ostensible futures market, Kalshi Inc., is of course a Delaware registered entity (file no. 7149936, reg. agent The Company Corporation)
(The sneaker market platform that Kalshi partnered with to offer New Balance futures, StockX LLC, is a Michigan domiciled company)
(The sneaker market platform that Kalshi partnered with to offer New Balance futures, StockX LLC, is a Michigan domiciled company)
Re-upping because I want everyone who has had to read through that twerp's SCOTUS opinion about how bucket shops don't appropriately "contemplate delivery" like proper grain futures trading pits do should also be burdened by the knowledge that in 2025 a sneakers futures derivative market exists
If you were trying to awaken the corpse of Oliver Wendell Holmes for a revenant rampage, I can't think of a better way to do it
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
![Everything exchange
We talked yesterday about a partnership between Kalshi Inc., the prediction market, and StockX, the sneaker market, to offer prediction markets on sneakers and other collectibles. Now you can go on StockX and buy ASICS Gel-1130 “Black Pure Silver” sneakers for $125, or you can go on Kalshi and pay 80 cents for a contract that pays $1 if the average price of ASICS Gel-1130 “Black Pure Silver” sneakers on StockX this month is above $120, or $0 if it is below that price. [1]
If you buy the sneakers on StockX, you get the sneakers. If you buy the contract on Kalshi, you don’t get the sneakers, but you get a pure financial bet: If the price of the sneakers averages more than $120 this month, you get a 25% return on your money. If you want the sneakers, buy the sneakers. If you have differentiated skill at predicting sneaker prices, buy the … well, I mean, if you have a lot of sneaker price prediction skill, and you think the sneakers will go up to $175, you could buy the sneakers now for $125, sell them later for $175, and make a 40% return on your money. But that requires $125 of capital and also, like, shipping the sneakers back and forth; buying the Kalshi contract is a simpler and cleaner bet. It isolates your price-predicting skill in a pure abstract financial trade; you don’t have to mess around with the sneakers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ungb4pqwssprj2722cok4mb6/bafkreihmqgw5lwia7qzvmcqxgke2pmi2op3xjjpxha2h5jrjezsvu7rprm@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Re-upping because I want everyone who has had to read through that twerp's SCOTUS opinion about how bucket shops don't appropriately "contemplate delivery" like proper grain futures trading pits do should also be burdened by the knowledge that in 2025 a sneakers futures derivative market exists
"Knowledge is power, and an educated and intelligent people can neither be held in, nor reduced to slavery."
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"Knowledge is power, and an educated and intelligent people can neither be held in, nor reduced to slavery."
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
NYT lede, tomorrow: "From Coast Guard decks to the coastal Maine precincts where this large and manly oysterman is challenging the effete Democrat establishment, symbols once classified as 'obviously hateful' are no longer disqualifying - though some critics say they remain 'potentially divisive.'"
"The Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol.
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NYT lede, tomorrow: "From Coast Guard decks to the coastal Maine precincts where this large and manly oysterman is challenging the effete Democrat establishment, symbols once classified as 'obviously hateful' are no longer disqualifying - though some critics say they remain 'potentially divisive.'"
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Religion is what you do with it.
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Religion is what you do with it.
Here's the public radio reporting. It is also primarily a platform for Republican fantasies and complaints.
(Sen. B. Townsend is quoted at the end, saying the question is whether DE should "stay the course" or follow the feds & changing dramatically to give big businesses huge tax cuts.)
(Sen. B. Townsend is quoted at the end, saying the question is whether DE should "stay the course" or follow the feds & changing dramatically to give big businesses huge tax cuts.)
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Here's the public radio reporting. It is also primarily a platform for Republican fantasies and complaints.
(Sen. B. Townsend is quoted at the end, saying the question is whether DE should "stay the course" or follow the feds & changing dramatically to give big businesses huge tax cuts.)
(Sen. B. Townsend is quoted at the end, saying the question is whether DE should "stay the course" or follow the feds & changing dramatically to give big businesses huge tax cuts.)
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
If you were trying to awaken the corpse of Oliver Wendell Holmes for a revenant rampage, I can't think of a better way to do it
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you were trying to awaken the corpse of Oliver Wendell Holmes for a revenant rampage, I can't think of a better way to do it
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
(Via Levine's newsletter today www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... )
More evidence that the machine that the Tolkien fanboy techlord finance guys are forcing on humanity is a weird broken simulation of the fae, not any kind of useful tool.
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
More evidence that the machine that the Tolkien fanboy techlord finance guys are forcing on humanity is a weird broken simulation of the fae, not any kind of useful tool.
"His goal is straightforward: He wants to make ICE agents uncomfortable. ... 'I know I can’t stop them,' he said, 'but if I can suck up their time, then at least I can help some people.'
... 'I want their morale as low as possible,' he said, 'because a team with low morale is ineffective.' "
... 'I want their morale as low as possible,' he said, 'because a team with low morale is ineffective.' "
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"His goal is straightforward: He wants to make ICE agents uncomfortable. ... 'I know I can’t stop them,' he said, 'but if I can suck up their time, then at least I can help some people.'
... 'I want their morale as low as possible,' he said, 'because a team with low morale is ineffective.' "
... 'I want their morale as low as possible,' he said, 'because a team with low morale is ineffective.' "
For contrast here is the News Journal article, which (per the house style there) primarily consists of a "he-said, he-said" rundown*, where "conflict" is between two parties, not between two parties + and two factions
* Yes, most of the ppl quoted are dudes, despite House ldrshp being women.
* Yes, most of the ppl quoted are dudes, despite House ldrshp being women.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For contrast here is the News Journal article, which (per the house style there) primarily consists of a "he-said, he-said" rundown*, where "conflict" is between two parties, not between two parties + and two factions
* Yes, most of the ppl quoted are dudes, despite House ldrshp being women.
* Yes, most of the ppl quoted are dudes, despite House ldrshp being women.