{"id":31874,"date":"2018-03-23T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31874"},"modified":"2018-03-23T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:59:10","slug":"open-thread-3-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/open-thread-3-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a cooler day here at the CatBox, so it should be far less muggy tonight.  I’m waiting for the locksmith again.  He was here this morning, but had the wrong parts.  Apparently my desk has a very rare lock, and finding a replacement is difficult.  I’m running behind.  Update:  the lock is finally fixed.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:05 (average 4:33).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  Hoe did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>ABC News is reporting that before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for \u201clack of candor,\u201d<\/a> McCabe had been leading an investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.<\/p>\n

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The irony that McCabe was investigating KKK Beauregard for lack of candor is extreme. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Daily News<\/a>: <\/font>The hacker Guccifer 2.0, who claimed responsibility for providing WikiLeaks with the stolen Democratic National Committee emails, has been identified as an officer of Russia\u2019s main intelligence directorate, or GRU, according to a new report.<\/p>\n

Guccifer\u2019s identity was uncovered after he failed on one occasion to activate a virtual private network, or VPN, to disguise his IP address \u2014 which appeared on the server logs of an American social media company, a source told the Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investigators pinpointed Guccifer\u2019s identity, and U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller has enlisted the help of the FBI agents who traced the persona back to a GRU officer who works out of the Moscow headquarters, according to the report.<\/p>\n

We always presumed Guccifer (R-RU) was Russian, but now we know which Russian he is. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Student activists across the country are ready to fight for solutions to gun violence during the March for Our Lives on Saturday, which was organized by students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Florida<\/a>. One of the ways students are preparing for the march is by making sure that marchers can also vote \u2014 or are at least ready to vote when the time comes.<\/p>\n

Marlena Tyldesley, a 17-year-old high school junior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, is sending politicians a message and mobilizing young people to be politically active by raising money to make and distribute stickers that display the year young people can vote. When students come to the Washington, D.C. March for Our Lives event, many of them may be wearing her stickers.<\/p>\n

She began organizing after she had a conversation with her family about the student-led movement to end gun violence. A family friend sent the family a check in the hopes that she would use it to fight for gun control and they started throwing around some ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea came up that we need a way to show politicians that we\u2019re coming and my dad said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you just get a sticker with the year you can vote. That\u2019s pretty simple,’\u201d Tyldesley said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not self explanatory, so it forces someone to come up and say what is that? And you can say well this is the year I can vote. Watch out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kudos to the kids for seeking a long-term solution. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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It’s a cooler day here at the CatBox, so it should be far less muggy tonight.  I’m waiting for the locksmith again.  He was here this morning, but had the wrong parts.  Apparently my desk has a very rare lock, and finding a replacement is difficult.  I’m running behind.  Update:  the lock is finally fixed. […]<\/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-31874","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\/31874","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=31874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}