{"id":48155,"date":"2022-06-10T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48155"},"modified":"2022-06-09T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:07:27","slug":"open-thread-june-10-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/10\/open-thread-june-10-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 10, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was fairly routine. I did watch the second hour of the hearings – and I have to say I was glad they adjourned – I don’t know how much more I could have withstood. I watched here, so I got no commentary<\/a>. After looking around afterwards, I started looking for any other sources, especially those which might continue to be available in case anyone else missed anything. The first one I found was PBS (I have set this to start just as the hearing does, so it may be a little choppy.)<\/a> Meidas Touch also made it avaiabe trough The Tony Michaels podcast. It was still going when I found it, so I didn’t try to look for a starting time. Those commenting there are likely, some of them, to be familiar (Texas Paul is one,<\/a> but others have also been seen in the Video Thread here.) I did look for MSNBC, but didn’t have a lot of time to look, and only found a clip on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Crooks & Liars – Here’s What A Real Expert Has To Say About Active Shooters<\/a>
\nQuote – This event isn\u2019t a real team building exercise, however, but a powerful new PSA put out by March For Our Lives, the gun control group that formed in the wake of 2018\u2019s Parkland school shooting. The PSA, titled \u201cGeneration Lockdown,\u201d seeks to build support for the passage of a bill in the US Senate that would expand background checks for guns.
\nClick through for video and article.<\/a> I put this here rather than in the Video Thread because the article, I believe, adds content. Someone at DU commented that if this doesn’t break your heart, you probably don’t have one. – let that be a hanky alert.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast – Putin\u2019s Favorite Copycat Gears Up in Panicked Wartime Frenzy<\/a>
\nQuote – In the past few days Lukashenko and his advisers have made a flurry of announcements about plans to bolster the Belarusian military. First, they announced Belarus was creating a people\u2019s militia to give a boost to the country\u2019s armed forces. Then they announced both a new military unit on the country\u2019s southern border with Ukraine and new military mobilizations exercises.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> Frankly, this scares me. Belarus isn’t very big – but then, neither is a straw.<\/p>\n

The New Yorker (Daily Shouts) – Racism Outshines Platinum Jubilee<\/a>
\nQuote – On Friday, at a service of thanksgiving for Her Majesty at St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral, Racism, attending with its partner, Colonialism, turned things up a notch in haute couture by the House of Anxiety, a dazzling coat composed of thousands of individual boos directed toward Meghan and Harry as they entered the church. When asked about the custom creation, House of Anxiety responded, \u201cWhite supremacy demands hating the other, and hating the other is the moment.\u201d
\nClick through for article.<\/a> “Daily Shouts” is a humor column which often comes very close to realiy because its readers are expected to be alert to satire. But frankly, I think this one is TOO close (Harry and Meghan did not, at least I don’t think so, leave early because of any disrespect to Elizabeth, but because two neo Nazis told Harry to his face that Archie was “an abomination” who ought to be “put down.”)<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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