{"id":47712,"date":"2022-05-04T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=47712"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:33:25","slug":"open-thread-may-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/open-thread-may-4-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 4, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received confirmation for my visit to Virgil this Sunday. I would have receuved it Monday if I hadn&#8217;t made a proofreading error which I had to clarify. I&#8217;m both relieved and a little sad that I got the approval in spite of the delay, because May 8 is Mothers&#8217; Day. But maybe the mothers of inmates who are not only children are visiting other days on the weekend. I hope so. Anyway, I&#8217;ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; 04 0504Cartoon.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1521485987133771782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter &#8211; Statement of President Biden on reported Spureme Court draft<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 Quote:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/statement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/statement.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/statement-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/statement-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/statement-768x297.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1521485987133771782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a> &#8211; the link is to Twitter &#8211; it should allow you to click on the full statement and see a larger image. Of course there are a gazillion actions already set up, and it won&#8217;t do any haem to join one or more. (Update: Chief Justice Roberts confirmed the draft yesterday)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/5\/2\/2095357\/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-69-irony-might-yet-win-the-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos (Community) &#8211; Ukraine Invasion Day 69: irony might yet win the war<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to undergo cancer surgery and temporarily hand over power to a hardline former federal police chief, according to a new report. Putin will transfer control of Russia&#8217;s government to Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian federal police&#8217;s Security Council, while he is incapacitated&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/5\/2\/2095357\/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-69-irony-might-yet-win-the-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a> for a little more on this and a lot more on the war in general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomoremister.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/who-are-right-wingers-when-theyre-at.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No More Mister Nice Blog &#8211; Who Are Right-Wingers When They&#8217;re At Home?<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; [T]he teams working on Fox\u2019s evening lineup began to make wider use of expensive ratings data known as \u201cminute-by-minutes.\u201d Unlike the \u201cquarter-hour\u201d ratings more commonly used in cable newsrooms, which show how each 15-minute \u201cblock\u201d performed, the minute-by-minutes allow producers to scrutinize an audience\u2019s real-time ebb and flow. Mr. Carlson &#8230; was among the network\u2019s most avid consumers of minute-by-minutes, according to three former Fox employees&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nomoremister.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/who-are-right-wingers-when-theyre-at.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for article<\/a>. This blog is in our blog roll, and does great work &#8211; but I usually find it when Crooks and liars lifts fro it.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CO-BC-64x64.jpg 64w\" 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, I received confirmation for my visit to Virgil this Sunday. I would have receuved it Monday if I hadn&#8217;t made a proofreading error which I had to clarify. I&#8217;m both relieved and a little sad that I got the approval in spite of the delay, because May 8 is Mothers&#8217; Day. But maybe the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/open-thread-may-4-2022\/' 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":[3704,3711,3734,3751,3760,3838,3972,3805,4395],"class_list":["post-47712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-insanity","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-scotus","tag-ukraine","tag-womens-health","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\/47712","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=47712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/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=47712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}