{"id":45934,"date":"2021-11-17T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45934"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:47:04","slug":"open-thread-for-november-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/17\/open-thread-for-november-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for November 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, again quiet. I got a few things done (never as much as I&#8217;d like to, of course.) I hope you can stand a day of good news &#8230; goodness knows there&#8217;s enough bad news out there.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Liz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Liz.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Liz-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Liz-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100216050236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground &#8211; I think I Spotted Antifa<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered &#8220;Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard&#8221; at a member of a far-right group attempting to disrupt the gathering over a loudspeaker.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100216050236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more and a great picture<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t possibly honor every hero here &#8211; if I tried I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do anything else &#8211; but she is special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/11\/15\/2064460\/--Dad-welcome-back-Advocate-for-deported-veterans-wins-his-own-fight-to-return-to-the-U-S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos (Gabe Ortiz) &#8211; &#8216;Dad, welcome back&#8217;: Advocate for deported veterans wins his own fight to return to the U.S.<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cThanks to a law passed in recent years that allows immigrants to challenge old convictions if they weren\u2019t warned about potential immigration consequences before accepting plea deals, he was finally able to get the conviction undone,\u201d The Union-Tribune reported.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/11\/15\/2064460\/--Dad-welcome-back-Advocate-for-deported-veterans-wins-his-own-fight-to-return-to-the-U-S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full story.<\/a> I needed a hanky and Pat probably will too. Others might also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/16\/black-footed-ferret-colorado-garage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furtive ferret: one of North America\u2019s rarest mammals turns up in Colorado garage<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cThis is extremely rare,\u201d Schmal said. \u201cBlack-footed ferrets are nocturnal and extremely shy. For some reason, this one left the colony and was seeking shelter. \u201cWe\u2019re just glad it appeared healthy, not starving or sick, and we were able to capture it and return it to the colony.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/16\/black-footed-ferret-colorado-garage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> Walker Ranch is in Boulder County, so I&#8217;m guessing Nettles lives in or near Boulder. I don&#8217;t blame him for not wanting the exact afddress out.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/zDwNDvSR\/st-psaki.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, again quiet. I got a few things done (never as much as I&#8217;d like to, of course.) I hope you can stand a day of good news &#8230; goodness knows there&#8217;s enough bad news out there. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes &#8211; Democratic Underground &#8211; I think I Spotted Antifa Quote &#8211; Wearing a military <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/17\/open-thread-for-november-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":[4355,4101,3704,4741,4115,4048],"class_list":["post-45934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-antifa","tag-cartoon","tag-endangered-species","tag-justice","tag-veterans","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\/45934","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=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/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=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}