Open Thread June 5 2026

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:09 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 052026

Yesterday, The House passed a War Powers Resolution 215-208. It went to the Senate, but if they voted, I haven’t heard the numbers.

Talking Feds/Harry Litman. Please forgive the insult to drunken sailors. Other observations are totally on target.

From Lever News. This is short, it’s currently only in one house, and there are caveats. But it’s as important as the words “or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” are in section 4 of the 25th Amendment. It opens up a way around a Presidential veto or a captive cabinet.

Too late for Alex Trebek – and for so many other beloved people – but I’m thankful something is finally here

PHP is a programming language used to build websites. We have it at all through our hosting partner, BlueHost. In order to update it, we have to go through Bluehost. During his life, TomCat was the only one who had access to our account there. I (JD) am now the only one. I have been to BlueHost and investigated updating our PHP to 8.3 or even to 8.1. I found instructions to do so - in fact, I found two conflicting sets of instructions. I went through one set of the steps and got the message that Our site could not handle 8.3, but that it had successfully updated to 8.1. I then went back here to see what it looked like. But I couldn't get in - either as an administrator or as a reader. It was just gone. I had to reach BlueHost by phone. It was determined that Politics Plus is in fact not compatible with any version of PHP newer than the one we have. BlueHost therefore uninstalled it for me, and the site came back to normal. Of course, like everyone else, I care about security. But I also am aware that TomCat elected to use different providers for several of the services that BlueHost provides, for instance backups. We are backed up daily - but not by BlueHost. However, out PHP is through Bluehost. I feel that if they are not worried about the older version, I am not going to worry about it. I believe that our security here is all or mostly through WordFence, whom I trust.