{"id":45378,"date":"2021-10-04T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45378"},"modified":"2021-10-03T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:28:00","slug":"open-thread-for-october-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/open-thread-for-october-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for October 4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did my best to rest. I worked a little more on that last cotton project I mentioned &#8230; I had to undo some after discovering I was working on the wrong side. But not too much. And it gives me a second chance to get a color change over short rows right. So I&#8217;m not complaining.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; 4 4Cartoon.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-business-social-media-ap-fact-check-737ba5005d897d31ff5185574c9bf69d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP News &#8211; NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn\u2019t happen this week<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Vaccinated people do not carry more coronavirus than the unvaccinate&#8230;. Social media users are misrepresenting comments made by Dr. Leana Wen, former Baltimore health commissioner, to make the false claim.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-business-social-media-ap-fact-check-737ba5005d897d31ff5185574c9bf69d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for this and other stories<\/a>. And maybe boolmark the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/not-real-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home page of this feature, which comes out every Friday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/texas-man-accused-of-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-democratic-party-hq-while-wearing-american-flag-as-disguise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law &amp; Crime &#8211; Texas Man Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Democratic Party HQ While Wearing American Flag as Disguise<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Ryan Faircloth, 30, stands accused of arson and possessing a prohibited weapon. He is currently being detained at the Travis County Jail in Austin after being arrested on Friday. He also has a federal charge pending according to the Austin American-Statesman.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/texas-man-accused-of-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-democratic-party-hq-while-wearing-american-flag-as-disguise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for data<\/a> and reminders of the crime &#8211; which we all saw on video. So glad they got him. I hope they keep him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/03\/facebook-whistleblower-capitol-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian &#8211; Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; A whistleblower at Facebook will say that thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to federal regulators proves the social media giant is deceptively claiming effectiveness in its efforts to eradicate hate and misinformation and it contributed to the January 6 attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/03\/facebook-whistleblower-capitol-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> This wil have been on 60 Minutes last night. She&#8217;s not claiming financial contributions, but she is claiming motivatinal contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<ins datetime=\"2021-10-03T21:17:55+00:00\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/H4BmDaF.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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\" \/><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did my best to rest. I worked a little more on that last cotton project I mentioned &#8230; I had to undo some after discovering I was working on the wrong side. But not too much. And it gives me a second chance to get a color change over short rows right. So <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/open-thread-for-october-4-2021\/' 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":[3704,3913,3946,3734,3717,4268,4115,4631,4345,4630],"class_list":["post-45378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-fake-news","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-violence","tag-insurrection","tag-justice","tag-social-media","tag-vaccines","tag-whistleblowers","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\/45378","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=45378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45378\/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=45378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}