{"id":44456,"date":"2021-07-15T07:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44456"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:33:02","slug":"open-thread-for-july-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/15\/open-thread-for-july-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for July 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I woke up, logged in, and realized the Open Thread had not published when I wanted it to because I had a typographical error in the schedule. Sorry to all. I&#8217;ll try to proofread better! Otherwise, the day went fine.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; blood wedding<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blood-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blood-wedding.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blood-wedding-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/blood-wedding-150x82.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/rightwing-goons-disrupt-katie-porter-town-hall-welcome-to-post-january-6-republican-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fascist Goons Disrupt Katie Porter Town Hall, Welcome To Post-January 6 GOP Politics<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Yes, she ran toward the trouble to protect people. She&#8217;s even a hero when she doesn&#8217;t have her white board handy. Porter told MSNBC&#8217;s Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell Monday night that she was worried for the safety of a couple of attendees &#8220;who were using walkers, who couldn&#8217;t move out of the way,&#8221; and that she simply wanted to be sure they weren&#8217;t knocked over while police were on the way.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/rightwing-goons-disrupt-katie-porter-town-hall-welcome-to-post-january-6-republican-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details and for a short video from Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.<\/a> Katie is a superb negotiator. But no one can negotiate with these &#8211; people. Holding back tears of anger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/lego-tells-us-company-to-stop-making-gun-that-looks-like-childs-toy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Beast &#8211; Lego Tells U.S. Company to Stop Making Gun That Looks Like Child\u2019s Toy<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Culper Precision of Utah has been producing a pistol that looks like a kid\u2019s toy made of Lego blocks, saying that its \u201cGlock 19\u201d weapon was made to show people that firearms are \u201cfor everyone\u201d and that shooting things is \u201cSUPER FUN!\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/lego-tells-us-company-to-stop-making-gun-that-looks-like-childs-toy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more,<\/a> including actual photo and link to Washington Post. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/562953-us-to-evacuate-afghans-who-assisted-us-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill &#8211; US to evacuate Afghans who assisted US military<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Flights out of Afghanistan for those who are already in the process of obtaining special immigrant visas (SIVs) will start in the last week of July, a senior administration official said in a statement.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/562953-us-to-evacuate-afghans-who-assisted-us-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for what details are available.<\/a> We knew this was going to be done, but there were no details available, and only a few now, but it&#8217;s clear the dates have been moved up.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought (probably not true. I have changed a little bit &#8211; but not much &#8211; possibly not even all in the same direction.):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/dbddf8b869a16bd378457a0b4c2dac1b\/03683ae83b5a4928-19\/s500x750\/2cdcf917eeaee1e911a8844f616bf8f05bbf39f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<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>Yesterday I woke up, logged in, and realized the Open Thread had not published when I wanted it to because I had a typographical error in the schedule. Sorry to all. I&#8217;ll try to proofread better! Otherwise, the day went fine. Cartoon &#8211; blood wedding Short Takes &#8211; Fascist Goons Disrupt Katie Porter Town Hall, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/15\/open-thread-for-july-15-2021\/' 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":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-44456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","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\/44456","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=44456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44456\/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=44456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}