{"id":51988,"date":"2023-06-02T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51988"},"modified":"2023-06-01T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:13:37","slug":"open-thread-june-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/open-thread-june-2-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 2, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had sent my disability certification without the witness signature to the DMV with an explanation, and I received a response that I could sent a photo of ny driver&#8217;s license to her and she could sign as witness. What a relief! I had gotten up earlt with not enough sleep and dreading having to go out again. Instead, I got to go back to bed. After getting up the second time, I made time to write a little essay to reply to John Pavlovitz&#8217;s email &#8211; some thoughts about the Bible I&#8217;ve been trying to spread for years in comments on petitions and article but which no one seems to be picking up on. The graphic he sent was so disturbing to me I just felt this was the time. It shows numbers and kinds of anti-transgender legislation in the states, Here it is &#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graph.png 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graph-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graph-150x82.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0602Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0602Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0602Cartoon-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/sports\/denver-nuggets\/polis-makes-wager-if-nuggets-win-finals-disney-world-moves-to-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KDVR Denver &#8211; Polis makes wager: If Nuggets win finals, Disney World moves to Colorado<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Colorado Gov. Jared Polis called for a friendly wager with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney on Tuesday: If the Denver Nuggets win the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat, Disney World moves to Colorado&#8230;. The Walt Disney World Resort currently resides in the Sunshine State and has since it first opened in the early 1970s. However, recently there have been rising tensions between the amusement park\u2019s parent company and DeSantis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/sports\/denver-nuggets\/polis-makes-wager-if-nuggets-win-finals-disney-world-moves-to-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through.<\/a> KDVR is a Fox affiliate, but as I&#8217;ve often said, they are often good at local news. And the quote sounds just like Polis to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23738846\/el-nino-2023-weather-heat-wave-climate-change-disaster-flood-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox &#8211; A big El Ni\u00f1o is looming. Here\u2019s what it means for our weather.<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; El Ni\u00f1o is the warm phase of the Pacific Ocean\u2019s temperature cycle, and this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o is poised to be a big one, sending shock waves into weather patterns around the world. It\u2019s likely to set new heat records, energize rainfall in South America, fuel drought in Africa, and disrupt the global economy. It may already have helped fuel early-season heat waves in Asia this year. \u201cA warming El Ni\u00f1o is expected to develop in the coming months and this will combine with human-induced climate change to push global temperatures into uncharted territory,\u201d said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, in a statement earlier this month. \u201cThis will have far-reaching repercussions for health, food security, water management and the environment. We need to be prepared.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23738846\/el-nino-2023-weather-heat-wave-climate-change-disaster-flood-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through foor details.<\/a> Republicans talk about Democrats being big spenders &#8230; but with the money they waste on fighting culture wars instead of climate change, we could really save a lot &#8211; of money, and of people.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/caregiver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/caregiver.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/caregiver-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/caregiver-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/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, I had sent my disability certification without the witness signature to the DMV with an explanation, and I received a response that I could sent a photo of ny driver&#8217;s license to her and she could sign as witness. What a relief! I had gotten up earlt with not enough sleep and dreading having <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/open-thread-june-2-2023\/' 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":[3704,3723,3709],"class_list":["post-51988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-humor","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\/51988","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=51988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/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=51988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}