{"id":48086,"date":"2022-06-04T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48086"},"modified":"2022-06-03T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T23:07:15","slug":"open-thread-june-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/04\/open-thread-june-4-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 4, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,I slept in again, due to shoulder issues again, although, because I resomved them a couple of hours earlier than the night before, I also got more sleep than the night before.\u00a0 Hopefyllu I have figures out the frmula and can resolve them earlier still while they last.\u00a0 I al assuing they are arthritis, and arthritis (and sciatica) hae a habit of coming in flare-ups and gong away again after 2-6 weeks, depending.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t mean they won&#8217;t ever come back, but &#8211; touching wood &#8211; after my knee flareup in February 2020 (which was agonizing), that knee has been fine ever since &#8211; unlike some other body parts I could mention.\u00a0 So there can be good long periosof no to minimal pain also.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ada.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ada-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ada-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ada-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/analysis\/2022\/05\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-surveillance-while-seeking-reproductive-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project on Government Oversight &#8211; How to Protect Yourself from Surveillance While Seeking Reproductive Health Care<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Living under an abortion ban in 2022 will not be similar to 1972, before Roe v. Wade. Due to the massive surveillance powers the government now possesses, the consequences of the ban could be much more draconian. Law enforcement not only has powerful tools to monitor individuals, but can capture a stream of sensitive data we produce in our daily lives, often without us realizing it\u2019s happening. And investigating individuals for prohibited abortions will likely direct the government\u2019s immense surveillance powers at the most intimate medical, familial, and sexual details of people\u2019s lives.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/analysis\/2022\/05\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-surveillance-while-seeking-reproductive-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for other aspects.<\/a> I know a lot of readers here will never be pregnant &#8211; I won&#8217;t myself. But, in addition to at least some of us having people in our lives we care about whoo could, I found reading this made me think about other things I tend to take for granted. You may also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trump-tops-pumpkin-pie-kardashians-as-worst-thing-to-come-from-us-in-british-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiZoom &#8211; Trump Tops Pumpkin Pie, Kardashians as \u201cworst thing to come from US\u201d In British Poll.<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; In a poll of 2,000 Brits conducted by Lottoland.co.uk who are pushing their own lousy U.S. exports, Powerball and Megamillions on an unsuspecting British Public, TFG walked away with the title of \u201cworst thing to come out out of America\u201d handily topping gun culture, the Kardashians and American Football.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trump-tops-pumpkin-pie-kardashians-as-worst-thing-to-come-from-us-in-british-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details<\/a>. Yes, this is fluff Bu it&#8217;s cool fluff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-study-reveals-more-about-how-the-heart-repairs-itself-after-a-heart-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science alert &#8211; The Human Heart Can Repair Itself, And We Now Know Which Cells Are Crucial For It<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Key to the study was the discovery of the role played by macrophages, specialist cells that can destroy bacteria or initiate helpful inflammation responses. As the first responders on a scene after a heart attack, these macrophages produce a particular type of protein called VEGFC, the researchers report. &#8220;We found that macrophages, or immune cells that rush to the heart after a heart attack to &#8216;eat&#8217; damaged or dead tissue, also induce vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGFC) that triggers the formation of new lymphatic vessels and promotes healing,&#8221; says pathologist Edward Thorp from Northwestern University in Illinois.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-study-reveals-more-about-how-the-heart-repairs-itself-after-a-heart-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full info.<\/a> There&#8217;s nothing here that makes any recommendations for current patients &#8211; but it&#8217;s hopeful that such recommendations may come as we understand more.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rights.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rights-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rights-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rights-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/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 slept in again, due to shoulder issues again, although, because I resomved them a couple of hours earlier than the night before, I also got more sleep than the night before.\u00a0 Hopefyllu I have figures out the frmula and can resolve them earlier still while they last.\u00a0 I al assuing they are arthritis, and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/04\/open-thread-june-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":[4985,3704,3712,4856,3982,4104,4683,4412],"class_list":["post-48086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cardiology","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-medicine","tag-privacy","tag-science","tag-surveillance","tag-womens-issues","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\/48086","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=48086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48086\/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=48086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}