{"id":44474,"date":"2021-07-17T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44474"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T00:40:32","slug":"open-thread-for-july-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/open-thread-for-july-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for July 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I scanned my vaccination card and saved the jpg in my health records file so I can easily find it if I need to. I also lookup up whether any visitation is being allowed, and yes, there is some &#8211; limited, but some. I will qualify after my 14 days since the second shot are up, so i&#8217;ll be working on an email to ask about paperwork, How handy that I have my vaccination card already scanned.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;\u00a0 just kidding &#8211; just kidding!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/17Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/17Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/17Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-obtained-podiatrists-note-to-avoid-serving-in-own-military-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker &#8211; Trump Obtained Podiatrist\u2019s Note to Avoid Serving in Own Military Coup<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; An excerpt from the note reads, \u201cDonald J. Trump is suffering from extremely painful bone spurs that would make any active-duty participation in a military coup out of the question. In the event of such a coup, I strongly recommend that he be limited to an administrative role.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-obtained-podiatrists-note-to-avoid-serving-in-own-military-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click thrugh for more<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republicans-claim-january-6th-rioters-were-middle-schoolers-on-field-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Related story\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/563331-pro-impeachment-republicans-outpace-gop-rivals-in-second-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill &#8211; Pro-impeachment Republicans outpace GOP rivals in second-quarter fundraising<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Now the 10 House Republicans who broke party lines in the chamber\u2019s January impeachment vote are heading into the second half of 2021 flush with cash, financial reports filed on Thursday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/563331-pro-impeachment-republicans-outpace-gop-rivals-in-second-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for numbers<\/a> and some names. This is encouraging, as far as it goes. It doesn&#8217;t mean we can rest, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/14th-amendment-section-2-mass-incarceration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones &#8211; How a Three-Word Phrase Sabotaged Black Voting Rights, and How They Can Be Reconstructed<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Or other crime. Three small words that continue to shape America today. It is a great irony of our history that the 14th Amendment, which enshrined in the Constitution the promise of equal protection under the law, is today the principal source of Black disenfranchisement. But there\u2019s no reason to accept this fate. At a time when the public is increasingly aware of modern attempts at suppression, the tools for resurrecting the fundamental right to vote are waiting to be put to use. Our future could depend on how seriously we decide to take the rest of the words in Section 2.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/14th-amendment-section-2-mass-incarceration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through and consider bookmarking<\/a>. Without the votes of people of color, democracy is already dead. It shouldn&#8217;t be, and doesn&#8217;t have to be, this way.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/Jn5Rfmyd\/hypocritical-race-theory.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 scanned my vaccination card and saved the jpg in my health records file so I can easily find it if I need to. I also lookup up whether any visitation is being allowed, and yes, there is some &#8211; limited, but some. I will qualify after my 14 days since the second shot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/open-thread-for-july-17-2021\/' 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-44474","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\/44474","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=44474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44474\/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=44474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}