{"id":46764,"date":"2022-02-05T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46764"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:21:20","slug":"open-thread-for-february-5-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/05\/open-thread-for-february-5-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for February 5, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the emails down to under 1700. I also found a way to increase how many I can delete at a time, so one more day may possibly do it. After that, I need to deal with some notofications and updates, but not all that many. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0205Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0205Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0205Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/03\/politics\/arizona-bill-reject-election-results-effectively-blocked\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN &#8211; Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The speaker assigns all new bills to a committee for consideration before they can have full House votes, a choice that often has a great effect on a measure&#8217;s chance of success. But on Tuesday, Bowers took the unprecedented step of ordering all 12 House committees to consider the elections bill, virtually ensuring it will never reach the floor.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/03\/politics\/arizona-bill-reject-election-results-effectively-blocked\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more<\/a>. I have to say this is creative &#8211; and Democrats should pay attention. This is a technique which could be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Two stories &#8211; one subject.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/black-man-michigan-tried-deposit-checks-his-bank-manager-called-n1122011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News &#8211; A black man in Michigan tried to deposit checks at his bank. The manager called police<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/a-black-doctor-says-she-was-refused-service-at-a-bank-because-of-her-race-i-felt-like-a-criminal\/ar-AATqS3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSN\/WaPo &#8211; A Black doctor says she was refused service at a bank because of her race: \u2018I felt like a criminal\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nClick thrugh for individual details. Different states, different genders, different dollar amounts, but the same story. Either or both would be a great argument for restoring Postal Banking &#8230; if we had a sane Postmaster General. (My understading is Republicans in the Senate are dragging their feet on confirming nominees to the Board of Governors.) Meanwhile, I&#8217;d recommend Credit Unions. That&#8217;s not a guarantee, however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/biden-sending-more-troops-to-eastern-europe-3-key-issues-behind-the-decision-176332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation &#8211; Biden sending more troops to Eastern Europe \u2013 3 key issues behind the decision<\/a><br \/>\nThe Issues &#8211; 1. Does Biden have the authority to do this?<br \/>\n2. Have other U.S. presidents done something similar?<br \/>\n3. Why is Biden sending more troops to Europe?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/biden-sending-more-troops-to-eastern-europe-3-key-issues-behind-the-decision-176332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for all three discussions.<\/a> I&#8217;m not a foreign policy expert, so fairly open-ended discussions like this are helpful to me.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DeerTick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DeerTick.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DeerTick-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DeerTick-150x81.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the emails down to under 1700. I also found a way to increase how many I can delete at a time, so one more day may possibly do it. After that, I need to deal with some notofications and updates, but not all that many. So there is a light at the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/05\/open-thread-for-february-5-2022\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4840,3704,4115,4452,3748,3805,3831],"class_list":["post-46764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-banking-while-black","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","tag-legislation","tag-racism","tag-ukraine","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\/46764","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=46764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}