{"id":48930,"date":"2022-08-19T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48930"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T23:15:30","slug":"open-thread-august-19-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/open-thread-august-19-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 19, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I pretty much stayed inside. I did take some time getting more stuff together. I can&#8217;t take most of it out too soon, since if I do, the plastic bags will deteriorate. But I did make a little room out of the traffic lanes so I can fill more. I also got caught up on responding to my cousin&#8217;s emails. I had let her know I wasn&#8217;t ignoring her and why &#8211; she was sweet enough to say &#8220;Your predicaments make mine seem like tiny glitches. Just one of your current situations would drive me up a wall.&#8221; That, of course, is nonsense &#8211; her whole career was as a public school teacher, so I&#8217;m sure she could cope with anything.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AralSea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AralSea.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AralSea-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AralSea-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AralSea-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/16\/bidens-three-headed-cybersecurity-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios &#8211; Biden&#8217;s three-headed cybersecurity team<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The big picture: The Biden administration has earned praise from experts for stabilizing and strengthening an executive-branch cybersecurity operation that had grown wobbly in the Trump era&#8230;. Biden has three top officials, including two in the White House, and signed a wide-reaching executive order last year to toughen federal agencies&#8217; cybersecurity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/16\/bidens-three-headed-cybersecurity-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for background, and why it mstters<\/a>. &#8220;Three heads&#8221; reminds me of Cerberus &#8211; except that Cerberus could be bribed, and I trust these three cannot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/4ax38w\/louisiana-woman-headless-fetus-abortion-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice News &#8211; Woman May Be Forced to Give Birth to a Headless Baby Because of an Abortion Ban<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Earlier this month, the Louisiana Department of Health released a list of medical conditions that would make a pregnancy \u201cmedically futile\u201d and clear the way for a pregnant person to get an abortion. At the time, medical professionals criticized the list as incomplete. \u201cI can already see things are missing on this,\u201d Dr. Rebekah Gee, an OB-GYN and the former Louisiana secretary of health, told Nola.com. \u201cI can name one, and I\u2019ve just looked at this list for 30 seconds.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/4ax38w\/louisiana-woman-headless-fetus-abortion-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for just how bad this is<\/a>, including how many other conditions are left out besides acrania.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PopQuiz-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/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 pretty much stayed inside. I did take some time getting more stuff together. I can&#8217;t take most of it out too soon, since if I do, the plastic bags will deteriorate. But I did make a little room out of the traffic lanes so I can fill more. I also got caught up <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/open-thread-august-19-2022\/' 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":[3704,3723,4884,3760,4395],"class_list":["post-48930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-cybersecurity","tag-joe-biden","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\/48930","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=48930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48930\/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=48930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}