{"id":52461,"date":"2023-07-21T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52461"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:31:11","slug":"open-thread-july-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/21\/open-thread-july-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was still cooler, cooler than the day before, and is expected to be even cooler today. But then it goes back up. The highest high predicted in the next nine days, however, is only 94\u00b0F. I&#8217;m actually good with that. My fans can handle that just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0721Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0721Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0721Cartoon-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/victim-police-brutality-restorative-justice_n_64b056dde4b0dcb4cab1e973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost &#8211; Why A Victim Of Police Brutality Chose Restorative Justice For The Cop<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Teri Jacobs, a photojournalist, was working at a protest that went awry in Portland on Aug. 18, 2020. When police ordered that the crowd disperse, Jacobs, who identified herself as a member of the press, said she was trying to help a friend when an officer named Corey Budworth began to hit her repeatedly with a baton on the head, neck and back. Jacobs said she went to the hospital the next day with bruises on her face and bumps on her head&#8230;. Two years later, Jacobs and Budworth came to a new agreement: They would each participate in a restorative justice program managed by the Multnomah County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/victim-police-brutality-restorative-justice_n_64b056dde4b0dcb4cab1e973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. Not only is it about restorative justice, but it&#8217;s from Portland, OR. How could I <strong>not<\/strong> share it here?\u00a0 TomCat would have been sso proud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/donald-trump-hoarding-jewish-artifacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette &#8211; Donald Trump Hoarding Jewish Artifacts At Mar-a-Lago, And We Don&#8217;t Mean The Club&#8217;s Members<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; It\u2019s time for a new episode of our favorite show, \u201cHoarders: Mar-a-Lago.\u201d What items might our former president Donald \u201cSticky Fingers\u201d Trump be keeping somewhere deep in the towers of classified documents and old Steak \u2018Um packages that line the musty halls in which he will one day die alone, in his bathrobe, muttering \u201cRosebud\u201d and clenching satellite photos of an Iranian nuclear weapons plant to his chest just before a nurse rushes in for an unenthusiastic round of CPR capped off with a celebratory martini? If you guessed \u201cancient Israeli antiquities,\u201d well, congrats. According to news reports, Trump has been keeping these antiquities at his home like some sort of 19th Century British lord, and Israel has not been able to get them back.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/donald-trump-hoarding-jewish-artifacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> This is the first Wonkette story I have used since they migrated to Substack, so you may need to click something to continue reading &#8211; or you may not. Substack allowed Wonkette to keep its domain address so all bets are off. Becca had the same reaction I did &#8211; that this is a really Nazi thing for him to do (see FFT).<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/artifacts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/artifacts.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/artifacts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/artifacts-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/artifacts-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/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, it was still cooler, cooler than the day before, and is expected to be even cooler today. But then it goes back up. The highest high predicted in the next nine days, however, is only 94\u00b0F. I&#8217;m actually good with that. My fans can handle that just fine. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes &#8211; HuffPost <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/21\/open-thread-july-21-2023\/' 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":[3704,4115,3732,5006],"class_list":["post-52461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","tag-nazis","tag-restorative-justice","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\/52461","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=52461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52461\/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=52461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}