{"id":51490,"date":"2023-04-15T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51490"},"modified":"2023-04-14T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:22:24","slug":"open-thread-april-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/15\/open-thread-april-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as you may already know (but if not will be happy to learn) the Supreme Court told the crazy judge in Texas that he cannot tell the FDA what to do with their special professional knowledge. This is only a temporary stay &#8230; but it was written by Alito, which to me looks promising. In other news, it snowed in Denver. It hadn&#8217;t here yet, but by today it&#8217;s supposed to. It&#8217;s not a weekend that I need to go anywhere, so I may not pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0415Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0415Cartoon.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0415Cartoon-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually we have till the 18th this year (and I really don&#8217;t regard the IRS the way TC did)<\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/moms-for-liberty-leader-allegedly-hijacked-dead-womans-facebook-page-to-harass-foes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Beast &#8211; Moms for Liberty Leader Allegedly Hijacked Dead Woman\u2019s Facebook Page to Harass Foes<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Pennsylvania mom Libby Leonard had been dead for a year and a half when her Facebook page began attacking another mother. \u201cEVERYONE&#8230;Say Hi to a real DUMB worst word you can call a woman (because she earned it),\u201d the March 14 post begins. \u201cCan\u2019t wait for her to meet her KARMA&#8230;It\u2019s already beginning, but until then I think a taste of her own medicine is amusing. However, I will be sharing legally and EVERYWHERE.\u201d Of course Libby didn\u2019t write this. She was stabbed to death by her children\u2019s babysitter in 2021. Instead, the post appears to have been authored by Nicole Prussman, a local leader of the right-wing group \u201cMoms for Liberty\u201d who had inserted herself in Libby\u2019s life and marriage before her tragic demise.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/moms-for-liberty-leader-allegedly-hijacked-dead-womans-facebook-page-to-harass-foes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. Why is it that when Republicans (and American &#8220;Libertarians&#8221;) talk about &#8220;Liberty&#8221; and\/or &#8220;Freedom,&#8221; they always mean taking away someone else&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sentinelcolorado.com\/news\/metro\/back-in-the-saddle-second-chance-bikes-rides-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sentinel &#8211; BACK IN THE SADDLE: Second Chance bikes rides again<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The redevelopment of Aurora\u2019s East Bank Shopping Center had forced the nonprofit project to relocate, but at the time of his passing, Ernie was struggling to find a new spot for the shop that offered free bikes to children, homeless people and others in need. After Ernie\u2019s death, [his daughter] Betty told the Sentinel how she promised her father that she would help carry on his legacy \u201ccome hell or high water.\u201d Now, she\u2019s making good on her promise and says Second Chance is gearing up to reopen out of a new storefront in Centennial.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sentinelcolorado.com\/news\/metro\/back-in-the-saddle-second-chance-bikes-rides-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more<\/a>. Not the biggest story in the world, but a feel-good one to offset that first one.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/weapon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/weapon.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/weapon-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/weapon-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as you may already know (but if not will be happy to learn) the Supreme Court told the crazy judge in Texas that he cannot tell the FDA what to do with their special professional knowledge. This is only a temporary stay &#8230; but it was written by Alito, which to me looks promising. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/15\/open-thread-april-15-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4978,3711,3751,3972,4299],"class_list":["post-51490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-feel-good","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-insanity","tag-scotus","tag-taxation","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\/51490","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=51490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}