{"id":36530,"date":"2019-05-19T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2019-05-19T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T14:34:08","slug":"open-thread-5-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/19\/open-thread-5-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m improving gradually.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming soon, and we have a busy day.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article, with no links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (5:13 average).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-19-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=ejAjdcRC28Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Don&#8217;t Stop Me Now Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ejAjdcRC28Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stop Trump and the Republican Reich! NOW!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yxzpLRBLbFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lie Us Into War &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yxzpLRBLbFw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Great one, Don! Isn&#8217;t that the only way the Republican Reich commits war? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/5\/15\/1857856\/-Missouri-teen-threatens-to-lynch-students-of-color-says-it-s-a-privilege-to-go-to-our-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Just yesterday, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/5\/14\/1857539\/-Middle-school-teacher-in-St-Paul-describes-black-students-as-f-g-n-r-in-viral-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covered<\/a> the sickening story of a St. Paul, Minnesota, teacher describing her black students as \u2018f&#8212;&#8212;g n&#8212;&#8212;s\u2019 on video. Today, we have a different yet also horrifying video to discuss. There are some key differences: This video involves a Missouri high school, for example, it first appeared on Snapchat, and this time, it\u2019s a student flinging out the racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important difference, however, is that in this 20-second viral video, the teen doesn\u2019t just use offensive language. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/05\/13\/springfield-police-investigate-racist-video-kickapoo-high-student\/1189617001\/\">threatens<\/a> to lynch his peers.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, really.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KickapooChiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KickapooChiefs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KickapooHS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KickapooHS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kickapoo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kickapoo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/springfieldNL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@springfieldNL<\/a> the police do not think threatening LYNCHING to the Black &amp; LGBTQIA teens in High School is a POLICE MATTER!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SGFPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SGFPolice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1TJlk1m67\">pic.twitter.com\/G1TJlk1m67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vicki Walden (@TheVikChick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVikChick\/status\/1126648718042771456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That goose-stepper has a job waiting with the Republican Party. <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\/2014\/05\/0519Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m improving gradually.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming soon, and we have a busy day.&nbsp; This is today&#8217;s only article, with no links messages on Care2. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (5:13 average).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (SNL Channel): Don&#8217;t Stop Me Now Cold Open &nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/19\/open-thread-5-19-2019\/' 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-36530","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\/36530","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=36530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}