{"id":32677,"date":"2018-06-10T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32677"},"modified":"2018-06-10T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:28:15","slug":"open-thread-6-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/open-thread-6-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still feeling tired and pretty queasy.&#160; WWWendy is due ten minutes from now to de-stink me, and I&#8217;m a VERY stinky TomCat!&#160; I&#8217;ll finish this afternoon.&#160; All work done.&#160; WWWendy said Hi.&#160; I&#8217;m pooped.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:09 (average 5:26).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; Humming Burp!<\/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=rhu1K57vULU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Power of Black Women<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rhu1K57vULU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">JD has been telling us that for ages! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/06\/10\/trump-north-korea-iran-nuclear-deal-635012\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Days before President Donald Trump embarked on a North Korea summit meant to solve one nuclear crisis, Iran hinted at another.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic announced last week that it has expanded its ability to enrich uranium, a key ingredient for nuclear weapons. The move came just weeks after Trump abruptly quit the Barack Obama-era deal that largely dismantled Iran\u2019s nuclear program, and it could be a first step toward an eventual Iranian dash to a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Iran probably didn\u2019t time its move to throw a stink bomb into Tuesday\u2019s summit in Singapore between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, experts say. But the news served as a vivid reminder of how the troubled Iran nuclear deal will haunt Trump\u2019s talks with Kim.<\/p>\n<p>The North Koreans are certainly watching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my informal conversations with North Korean officials they have consistently brought up the Iran deal,\u201d said Suzanne DiMaggio of New America, who, like many North Korea analysts, occasionally engages in unofficial discussions with the country\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I said it at the time. When Trump violated the Iran deal, he showed Kim he won&#8217;t keep a deal with North Korea either.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!&#160; <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/judge-blocks-indiana-law-kicks-voters-off-rolls-c3e834baa3ce\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: \\<\/font>Kris Kobach\u2019s effort to upend the way Americans vote has suffered another setback.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas Secretary of State has been hard at work trying to expand upon his fatally flawed Crosscheck program, which he cooked up following the 2016 election, after President Trump made <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/kris-kobach-voter-fraud-findings-ebe089540ede\/\" target=\"_blank\">totally baseless<\/a> claims of voter fraud as the reason he lost the popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kobach has used Trump\u2019s bogus claim as a rationale to bring voter suppression to the whole country, has been marred with security breaches, risky data management, and embarrassment. But Indiana isn\u2019t joining in \u2014 at least, not for now.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-indiana-election\/federal-judge-blocks-indiana-from-enforcing-voter-purge-law-idUSKCN1J5024\" target=\"_blank\">blocked<\/a> Indiana from trying to enforce a law passed in 2017 that would have allowed state election officials to kick people off the voter rolls if they were flagged by the Interstate Crosscheck Program.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A small win for the good guys and gals! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0610Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still feeling tired and pretty queasy.&#160; WWWendy is due ten minutes from now to de-stink me, and I&#8217;m a VERY stinky TomCat!&#160; I&#8217;ll finish this afternoon.&#160; All work done.&#160; WWWendy said Hi.&#160; I&#8217;m pooped. 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