{"id":46978,"date":"2022-02-26T06:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46978"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T00:40:10","slug":"open-thread-for-february-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/26\/open-thread-for-february-26-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for February 26, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, our high temperature got up to 28\u00b0F. I stayed indoors &#8230; and moved my space heater a little closer.\u00a0 I also worked on cartoons for March (I picked out all the subjects but did&#8217;t start work on anny.).\u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t have tto do as many as I did for February, although\u00a0 I expect to have to bump some perfectly good ones as events occur.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0226Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0226Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0226Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/biden-has-had-this-in-hand-for-almost-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiZoom &#8211; Biden Has Had This Ukraine Crisis In Hand For Almost A Year<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Over the last few weeks you\u2019ve asked yourself, How the hell is Biden beating Putin to the punch every single time? Simple. Because for almost a year now, Biden has already known what Putin has been planning, and has kept his and has kept his largest, closest NATO allies in the loop. And under curtain of darkness, they have gotten the other NATO members brought up to date as to Putin\u2019s plans.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/biden-has-had-this-in-hand-for-almost-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full story<\/a>. Now THAT&#8217;s a leader. (&#8220;Murfster35&#8221; used to write at Daily Kos but moved to PolitiZoom to support Ursula.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-24-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters from an American &#8211; February 24, 2022<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who took over for Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) when the House Republicans stripped her of her position as the third most powerful House Republican, tweeted that \u201cJoe Biden is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief. He has consistently given into [sic] Putin\u2019s demands and shown nothing but weakness.\u201d This is simply an extraordinary statement for a lawmaker to issue at a time when a president is rallying the global community to stop an invasion of another democracy, but she is not alone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-24-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a>. Obviously there&#8217;s lots more, but a list of prominent traitors is always handy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/kbj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History (in the making) &#8211; PRESIDENT BIDEN NOMINATES KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO SERVE ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, President Biden has conducted a rigorous process to identify his replacement. President Biden sought a candidate with exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and unwavering dedication to the rule of law. And the President sought an individual who is committed to equal justice under the law and who understands the profound impact that the Supreme Court\u2019s decisions have on the lives of the American people. That is why the President nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as the next Justice on the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson is one of our nation\u2019s brightest legal minds and has an unusual breadth of experience in our legal system, giving her the perspective to be an exceptional Justice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/kbj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for the story<\/a> direct from the horse&#8217;s mouth, as the saying goes.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GQP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GQP.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GQP-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GQP-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GQP-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/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, our high temperature got up to 28\u00b0F. I stayed indoors &#8230; and moved my space heater a little closer.\u00a0 I also worked on cartoons for March (I picked out all the subjects but did&#8217;t start work on anny.).\u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t have tto do as many as I did for February, although\u00a0 I expect to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/26\/open-thread-for-february-26-2022\/' 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":[4837,3704,3866,4115,3838,3805,3831],"class_list":["post-46978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-black-history","tag-cartoon","tag-history","tag-justice","tag-russia","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\/46978","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=46978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46978\/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=46978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}