{"id":49119,"date":"2022-09-07T06:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49119"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:54:23","slug":"open-thread-september-7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/open-thread-september-7-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 7, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received a fund raising email from Adam Schiff. That&#8217;s not unusual, but I usually don&#8217;t read them. This one drew me in with the subject line, and it turned out to be mostly about his daughter, Alexa, with a photo from when she was four. She&#8217;s now 24 and getting established in a career in fashion (Adam stresses that her fashion sense is and always was far superior to his.) Of course it gets more serious, but it&#8217;s very well written, and put a smile on my face.\u00a0 I also puttered arond a bit trying to organize more.\u00a0 And started on a new bag for the next pickup &#8230; which I have not scheduled, wanting to be under less pressure this time.\u00a0 Finally, yesterday, the first public servant since Reconstruction was disqualified under the 14th Amendment.\u00a0 He was a County Commissioner in New Mexico who took part in Jan. 6. But even though he wasn&#8217;y a Senator or a House rep, it&#8217;s still a BFD.\u00a0 Cheers for New Mexico!<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0907Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0907Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0907Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/for-labor-day-my-we-they-test-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich &#8211; For Labor Day: My &#8220;we-they&#8221; test for good places to work<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; In honor of Labor Day, I want to give you a simple way to test for a good workplace. I came up with it years ago when as secretary of labor I visited workplaces all over America. I call it the \u201cwe-they\u201d test. Ask a front-line worker a general question like \u201chow is it work here?\u201d or \u201chow\u2019s your job?\u201d or \u201chow would you describe this workplace?\u201d Then listen for the pronoun. If workers describe the company as &#8220;they&#8221; or &#8220;them,&#8221; it\u2019s a tipoff that workers regard the company and its executives as being on a different planet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/for-labor-day-my-we-they-test-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for examples.<\/a> I sure wish I&#8217;d known this when I was twenty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/06\/1121187542\/dominion-voting-fox-news-lawsuit-pirro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR &#8211; Fox producer&#8217;s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump&#8217;s lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/06\/1121187542\/dominion-voting-fox-news-lawsuit-pirro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story (read or listen, or both.<\/a>)\u00a0 This is definitely going to undermine any chance of theit claiming not to know any better.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CE.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CE-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CE-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CE-102x150.jpg 102w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received a fund raising email from Adam Schiff. That&#8217;s not unusual, but I usually don&#8217;t read them. This one drew me in with the subject line, and it turned out to be mostly about his daughter, Alexa, with a photo from when she was four. She&#8217;s now 24 and getting established in a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/open-thread-september-7-2022\/' 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":[3704,3946,3711,3751,3721,3798,3792],"class_list":["post-49119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-fake-news","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-lies","tag-labor","tag-robert-reich","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\/49119","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=49119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49119\/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=49119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}