{"id":27323,"date":"2017-04-26T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27323"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:46:12","slug":"open-thread-4262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/open-thread-4262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and Wendy comes this evening to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; Please pardon my pain induced brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:11 (average 5:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UYbsN5WImrU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>It Sure Looks Like a Russian Cover-Up | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UYbsN5WImrU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The cover-up could not be more obvious. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/25\/us\/judge-blocks-trump-sanctuary-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A judge in San Francisco on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump\u2019s efforts to starve localities of federal funds when they limit their cooperation with immigration enforcement, a stinging rejection of his threats to make so-called sanctuary cities fall in line.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, William H. Orrick of United States District Court, wrote that the president had overstepped his powers with his January executive order on immigration by tying billions of dollars in federal funding to immigration enforcement. Judge Orrick said only Congress could place such conditions on spending.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which applies nationwide, was another judicial setback for the Trump administration, which has now seen three immigration orders stopped by federal courts in its first 100 days. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/travel-ban-muslim-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">as with the rulings halting his two temporary bans on travel<\/a> from several predominantly Muslim countries, the president\u2019s own words were used against him.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s good news for Portland, one of America&#8217;s first sanctuary cities.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/can-you-distinguish-trumps-home-dictators-palace\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>What is &quot;dictator style&quot;? For Donald Trump, it&#8217;s celebrating winning on a private jet while eating a Big Mac. He&#8217;s a &quot;man of the people&quot; with bad hair, oversized suits and a notorious trucker hat.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, according to Peter York, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/10-ways-trumps-taste-interior-decor-would-fit-right-3rd-world-dictators-palace\" target=\"_blank\">Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World&#8217;s Most Colorful Despots<\/a>, &quot;Trump&#8217;s design aesthetic is fascinatingly out of line with America\u2019s past and present.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4MO33PaQtQQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t tell the difference. Can you? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0426Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0426Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0426Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0426Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and Wendy comes this evening to de-stink the TomCat.&#160; Please pardon my pain induced brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:11 (average 5:49).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (GQ Channel): It Sure Looks Like a Russian <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/open-thread-4262017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}