{"id":36347,"date":"2019-04-26T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36347"},"modified":"2019-04-26T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:57:41","slug":"open-thread-4-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/26\/open-thread-4-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m tired, because I stayed up late last night to watch the draft, and because it was a hot, muggy night.&nbsp; My Broncos drafted Noah Fant (TE-Iowa).&nbsp; That surprised me, but we certainly need help at that position.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:19 (average 5:49).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=VoH41HFzfVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Historians Roast Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VoH41HFzfVM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Should historians &#8216;roast&#8217; Trump? Isn&#8217;t &#8216;flush&#8217; the appropriate verb? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THPof2ExNhI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Facebook Is Facing A Fine Of Up To $5 Billion, The Largest Ever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/THPof2ExNhI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">By Facebook standards, that fine is tiny!&nbsp; Fuckerberg is dancing all the way to the bank. The Republican Reich is helping him screw YOU! <strong>UNPLUG<\/strong>!! With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/25\/us\/michigan-gerrymandering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A panel of three federal judges ruled on Thursday that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are extreme partisan gerrymanders and unconstitutional. The judges ordered state lawmakers to redraw maps in time for elections in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The panel wrote that it was joining \u201cthe growing chorus of federal courts\u201d that have held that drawing districts to unfairly favor the party in power is unconstitutional. The judges said the maps violated Democratic voters\u2019 constitutional rights.  <\/p>\n<p>But the impact of the ruling ultimately will turn on an opinion by the Supreme Court, which is weighing decisions in two other partisan gerrymander cases involving congressional districts in North Carolina and Maryland. The justices\u2019 decision in those cases, expected by the end of June, could reinforce the Michigan ruling, force alterations to it, or even overrule it entirely.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The judges clearly did the right thing, but I have no faith that the Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) will rule Constitutionally. <strong>RESIST<\/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\/04\/0426Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m tired, because I stayed up late last night to watch the draft, and because it was a hot, muggy night.&nbsp; My Broncos drafted Noah Fant (TE-Iowa).&nbsp; That surprised me, but we certainly need help at that position. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:19 (average 5:49).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/26\/open-thread-4-26-2019\/' 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-36347","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\/36347","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=36347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}