{"id":40543,"date":"2020-07-25T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40543"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T18:04:27","slug":"open-thread-7-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/25\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a lazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; There is not much news that we have not already covered, so this is my only article today.&nbsp; Portland is entering an excessive heat waning with several days over 90\u00b0 and Sunday and Monday over 100\u00b0.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&nbsp; Tomorrow WWWendy will be here to destink the sweaty TomCat, help with chores, and mega-goop.&nbsp; Have a great weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0725Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We got rid of Lyin\u2019 Ryan, but there are many more to flush!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"424\" title=\"0725TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0725TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0725TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 4,251,024<br \/>US Deaths: 148,529<br \/>World Cases: 15,998,009<br \/>World Deaths: 643,809<br \/>Trump&#8217;s* Share of World Deaths: 23.1%<\/font><\/strong><\/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=HZvj2jsvujU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">White House Hijacks CDC Guidelines For School Reopenings<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HZvj2jsvujU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich do not care how many families they murder in their attempts to make life appear normal for electoral purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4U2qrm1iP_o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TraeCrowderLiberalRedneck\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trey Crowder Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Trae Crowder and Mark Agee on why the Right hates AOC so much &#8211; Evening Skews Clip<font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4U2qrm1iP_o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich hate AOC so much, because she tells the truth!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4&amp;list=PLjQiYwUmJpSzrKi5pIW_5_kF3dJyrGO5h&amp;index=3&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from civil rights): <font color=\"#333333\">Sam Cooke &#8211; A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)<font color=\"#333333\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wEBlaMOmKV4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Support Black Lives Matter!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<br \/><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a lazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; There is not much news that we have not already covered, so this is my only article today.&nbsp; Portland is entering an excessive heat waning with several days over 90\u00b0 and Sunday and Monday over 100\u00b0.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update or an <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2020\/' 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":[4049,4001,3704,4043,3711,3734,3721,3924,4030,3718,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-aoc","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-cartoon","tag-civil-rights","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-gop-murder","tag-k-12","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","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\/40543","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=40543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}