{"id":40287,"date":"2020-07-01T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40287"},"modified":"2020-07-01T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:11:06","slug":"open-thread-7-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/open-thread-7-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/1\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It\u2019s a crazy day.\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting for Safeway.com to arrive, and hoped they would be here, before I publish this, but their tracking app shoes them over one hour late.\u00a0 They have emailed me my receipt.\u00a0 They are out of stock for $100 out of $190, including toilet paper.\u00a0 I can do without a lot of the items, but it may be a shitty week, here in the CatBox.\u00a0 Tomorrow, please expect no more than Personal Update.\u00a0 WWWendy will be here in the morning.\u00a0 Hump Day Hugs!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today\u2019s took me 2:59 (average 5:08).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0701Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0701TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0701TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" alt=\"0701TrumpVirusMap\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">US Cases: 2,730,803<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">US Deaths: 130,134<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8toreZRhfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/oregoniannews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregonian Channel<\/a>): <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Portland Police declare a riot on June 30, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/j8toreZRhfo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It was a riot\u2026 a police riot. They attacked demonstrators, because they were in front of the police union office protesting police violence. Sadly, policing is one of the few areas in which Oregon does NOT lead the way.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/30\/us\/politics\/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia\u2019s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covertly offered bounties<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though the United States has accused Russia of providing general support to the Taliban before, analysts concluded from other intelligence that the transfers were most likely part of a bounty program that detainees described during interrogations.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also identified by name numerous Afghans in a network linked to the suspected Russian operation, the officials said \u2014 including, two of them added, a man believed to have served as an intermediary for distributing some of the funds and who is now thought to be in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The intercepts bolstered the findings gleaned from the interrogations, helping reduce an earlier disagreement among intelligence analysts and agencies over the reliability of the detainees. The disclosures further undercut White House officials\u2019 claim that the intelligence was too uncertain to brief President Trump. In fact, the information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/russian-bounty-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was provided to him<\/a> in his daily written brief in late February, two officials have said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now we have undeniable proof, both that Russia paid for the murder of US troops, and criminal Fuhrer Trump* knew about it since February, 2019. He rewarded Russia in spite of it.\u00a0 Criminal Fuhrer Trump* has now fallen back to his defense of last resort. He&#8217;s calling it &#8220;fake news&#8221;.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jl5vi9ir49g&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=89&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): he Hollies &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">He Ain&#8217;t Heavy, He&#8217;s My Brother<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Jl5vi9ir49g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ah\u2026 the memories!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a crazy day.\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting for Safeway.com to arrive, and hoped they would be here, before I publish this, but their tracking app shoes them over one hour late.\u00a0 They have emailed me my receipt.\u00a0 They are out of stock for $100 out of $190, including toilet paper.\u00a0 I can do without a lot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/open-thread-7-1-2020\/' 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":[3704,3712,3711,3715,3718,3724,3998,3739,3705,3838,3706,3795,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-military","tag-music","tag-oregon","tag-police-misconduct","tag-protest","tag-resist","tag-russia","tag-satire","tag-treason","tag-video","tag-vote-blue","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\/40287","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=40287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}