{"id":46147,"date":"2021-12-06T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46147"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:13:01","slug":"open-thread-for-december-6-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/open-thread-for-december-6-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for December 6, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was quiet, but I got a late start, so didn&#8217;t do a whole lot. Which is fine. I did assemble the next two weeks meds (a day late.)<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1206Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1206Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1206Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-the-public-doesnt-get-anti-crt-lawmakers-are-passing-pro-crt-laws-171356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation &#8211; What the public doesn\u2019t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; [A Wisconsin] bill &#8230; includes a ban against teaching that \u201c[o]ne race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.\u201d &#8230;. Now imagine a 10th grade social studies class begins a unit on corporate America. The teacher opens with basic facts about Fortune 500 CEOs&#8230;. In effect, this story suggests that white men are inherently superior \u2013 the precise message that Wisconsin\u2019s bill prohibits.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-the-public-doesnt-get-anti-crt-lawmakers-are-passing-pro-crt-laws-171356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for the complete case.<\/a> This would be funny if it weren&#8217;t so sad. Dunning and Kruger would be facepalming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/12\/13\/a-son-sends-josephine-baker-to-the-pantheon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker &#8211; A Son Sends Josephine Baker to the Panth\u00e9on<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The panth\u00e9onisation was a go, making Baker the sixth woman, and the first woman of color, to be so recognized. Born in St. Louis in 1906, she is also the first American-born person (she became a French citizen in 1937) to be honored alongside the likes of Voltaire and Hugo.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/12\/13\/a-son-sends-josephine-baker-to-the-pantheon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through.<\/a> I thought I had a fair idea of what Baker did for humanity &#8230; but I vastly overestimated ny knowledge. She certainly deseerves this honor. If you are paywalled, I&#8217;ll be happy to send a pdf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/koch-industries-buys-themselves-az-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; BOGO: Koch Industries Buys An AZ Senate Candidate&#8217;s&#8230;Company<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Republican Jim Lamon was the founder and owner of DEPCOM Power, a solar power company headquartered in Arizona. Lamon&#8217;s company was acquired by a division of Koch Industries, just in time to give Lamon a huge cash infusion with which to challenge Mark Kelly, who is running for re-election in 2022.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/koch-industries-buys-themselves-az-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> I believe this is called &#8220;plausible deniability&#8221; &#8211; which is seldom, and in this case not, plausible.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/moral-bankrupt-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/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 was quiet, but I got a late start, so didn&#8217;t do a whole lot. Which is fine. I did assemble the next two weeks meds (a day late.) Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes The Conversation &#8211; What the public doesn\u2019t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws Quote &#8211; [A Wisconsin] bill &#8230; includes a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/open-thread-for-december-6-2021\/' 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":[3704,3711,4115,3748,3831],"class_list":["post-46147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-justice","tag-racism","tag-world","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\/46147","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=46147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46147\/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=46147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}