{"id":28277,"date":"2017-06-26T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28277"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:59:14","slug":"open-thread-6262016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/open-thread-6262016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/26\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the heat wave came to an end with another record high temperature: 104\u00b0 (40\u00b0).&#160; The next three days are forecast in the high 70\u00b0s, but it will take two days, before this building bleeds off enough heat for interior temperatures to reflect the weather outside.&#160; My AC is holding it&#8217;s own a bit better than yesterday.&#160; I&#8217;ve had very little sleep in the last two days and am feeling quite tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-26-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=D2r32nYPta0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>We need action<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/D2r32nYPta0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Just as trans people are joining the struggles for freedoms not specific to LGBT rights, straight people must join the struggle for LGBT freedom. If you click through to the MoveOn Channel link, you&#8217;ll find videos of Bernie&#8217;s healthcare rallies in Pittsburgh and Columbus. Both are over an hour long. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hQ_K9qjzKR8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Mike Pence Boasts Of Trump&#8217;s Anti-Choice Accomplishments To Focus On The Family<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hQ_K9qjzKR8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again, Pence is just like Trump with two minor exceptions. He is not a puke shade of orange. Whatever pussy grabbing he does, he keeps it secret. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/24\/1674966\/-President-Trump-to-be-sued-for-Intentionally-Destroying-Presidential-Records\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Two groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW, and the National Security Archive, have filed a lawsuit against the president, arguing that he \u201cappears to be violating the Presidential Records Act and the Constitution\u2019s requirement that the president \u2018take care\u2019 that the laws be faithfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/press-release\/crew-sues-president-trump-presidential-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">executed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups specifically allege that the president has gone on a campaign to destroy tweets and that administration officials regularly use other means of correspondence, such as special apps that automatically delete read emails. The apps also allow for private communications among top staff that effectively cut the public and the press out from learning of the goings on of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsy.com\/stories\/lawsuit-says-trump-illegally-destroyed-presidential-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, President Trump once accused Hilary Clinton of her own deletion problem.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to CREW. The doings of the Fuhrer and his Republican Reich are too evil to withstand the light of day. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0626Cartoon\" 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=\"0626Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0626Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the heat wave came to an end with another record high temperature: 104\u00b0 (40\u00b0).&#160; The next three days are forecast in the high 70\u00b0s, but it will take two days, before this building bleeds off enough heat for interior temperatures to reflect the weather outside.&#160; My AC is holding it&#8217;s own a bit better <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/open-thread-6262016-2\/' 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-28277","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\/28277","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=28277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}