{"id":46130,"date":"2021-12-04T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46130"},"modified":"2021-12-03T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:46:34","slug":"open-thread-for-december-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/open-thread-for-december-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for December 4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was calm again. I&#8217;m beginning to be able to tell how much I overdid the previous day by how much my back hurts when I get up. It was worse yeatersay (after bringing in groceries) than the previous two days, but nothing compared to how it felt the day after I saw Virgil. On the whole, the back is improving, though, which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AphiA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AphiA.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AphiA-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AphiA-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/02\/us\/black-parents-and-critical-race-theory\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black parents say movement to ban critical race theory is ruining their children&#8217;s education<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;This is a way for them to stop, or try to prevent the schools from actually teaching, and practicing, equity, diversity and inclusion across the schools,&#8221; Hutchsinon said. &#8220;I hear a lot of White mothers say they think their child is too young to learn about racism. You know what, my child&#8217;s not too young to experience it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/02\/us\/black-parents-and-critical-race-theory\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> It&#8217;s so obvious, isn&#8217;t it? If white children can have their snowflake fee-fees hurt be learning <strong>the truth<\/strong> about white history, what does that imply for black children who are systematically prevented from learning anything black history? So obvious. But apparently it needs to be said (and very loudly.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/12\/2\/2067271\/-Cartoon-Black-Mugshots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos (keefknight) &#8211; Cartoon: Black Mugshots<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; I&#8217;m going to screw the algorithm. Black people, post and sent s pic of yourself drinking out of your favorite mug. Non-Black people: Post and sentd a pic of yourself with a black mug.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/12\/2\/2067271\/-Cartoon-Black-Mugshots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for cartoon and for comments<\/a>. I love this idea. Photos can be uploaded at www.blackmugshots.com if you are interested. The hashtag is #blackmugshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/michigan-school-shooter-parents-manslaughter_n_61aa4c4ae4b044a1cc2300fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost &#8211; Parents Of Oxford High School Shooting Suspect Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cWhile the shooter was the one who entered the high school and pulled the trigger, there were other individuals who contributed, and it\u2019s my intention to hold them accountable as well,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cGun ownership is a right, and with that right comes great responsibility.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/michigan-school-shooter-parents-manslaughter_n_61aa4c4ae4b044a1cc2300fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> I think we can all agree it&#8217;s terribly sad that this is necessary &#8211; but, since apparently it is, I for one am glad to see it. (Glenn says the same and more, but that won&#8217;t post until tomorrow&#8217;s Video Thread.)<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/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>Yesterday, it was calm again. I&#8217;m beginning to be able to tell how much I overdid the previous day by how much my back hurts when I get up. It was worse yeatersay (after bringing in groceries) than the previous two days, but nothing compared to how it felt the day after I saw Virgil. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/open-thread-for-december-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":[35,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-46130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","category-35-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\/46130","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=46130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130\/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=46130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}