{"id":43943,"date":"2021-06-05T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=43943"},"modified":"2021-06-04T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:37:33","slug":"open-thread-for-june-5-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/05\/open-thread-for-june-5-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for June 5, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got some charge into the battery, but I didn&#8217;t get the car started, and I ran out of time (and energy.) But I&#8217;m encouraged enough to keep trying. If I can&#8217;t get this done myself, I&#8217;ll have to find a roadside Assistance provider who will bring me a whole new battery. Thanks to the stimulus, I can afford that, it just pains my frugality (which I apparently inherited from my father, or so my mother often said.)<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0623Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0623Cartoon.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0623Cartoon-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/06\/stanford-law-withholds-diploma-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Stanford Law Withholds Diploma After Student Satire Triggers Federalist Society<\/a><br \/>\nWell, this is embarrassing. I mean, anyone can make a mistake, but tis is my school and the mistake is egregious and public. Here&#8217;s the header of the flyer Which Lainched a Thousand Snowflakes:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/files\/imagecache\/node_primary\/primary_image\/21\/06\/wallace_flyer_for_060221.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nYou can <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/06\/stanford-law-withholds-diploma-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click though<\/a> fror the details. They say it&#8217;s a two-minute read. (And ends with the news that the hold has been lifted. Thank God.)<\/p>\n<p>Also from<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/cltv\/2021\/06\/greg-gutfeld-if-putin-decides-have\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Crooks and liars<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t find anyone else carrying this story, and that&#8217;s a shame. Every American should know about this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fox News Host Calls for Vladimir Putin to Kill Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tSYQZdLTPE\">https:\/\/t.co\/tSYQZdLTPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HillReporter.com (@HillReporter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillReporter\/status\/1400581452291477507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/20\/us\/caren-act-911-san-francisco-board-passes-first-read-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN &#8211; San Francisco&#8217;s &#8216;CAREN Act,&#8217;<\/a> making racially biased 911 calls illegal, is one step closer to becoming a law<br \/>\nThis is great news, as far as it goes &#8211; it&#8217;s just a bill (or whatever they call it in a City\/County &#8211; San Francisco is both), not a law (ordinance?) But oh, how it needs to be! And enforced!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E2KZSnkXoAA2LoC.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got some charge into the battery, but I didn&#8217;t get the car started, and I ran out of time (and energy.) But I&#8217;m encouraged enough to keep trying. If I can&#8217;t get this done myself, I&#8217;ll have to find a roadside Assistance provider who will bring me a whole new battery. Thanks to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/05\/open-thread-for-june-5-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/43943","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}