{"id":52749,"date":"2023-08-21T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52749"},"modified":"2023-08-20T18:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:06:43","slug":"open-thread-august-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/open-thread-august-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I kept periodically checking on Hurricane Hilary. PP has at least one reader in southern Cal, and my BFF has family there. Just to make life more intresting, there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake near Ojai (Ventura Coounty) &#8211; if you hadn&#8217;t heard, that&#8217;s probably because compared to the storms it was trivial. And then there&#8217;s southern Nevada and Arizona, which are now in the path. Hilary had been staying a cat 4 into the afternoon, but they were not ruling out Cat 5 status being reached, and the flooding was being considered the biggest danger. We could be continuing to see the ongoing effects for another day or two before it finishes.\u00a0 And then there&#8217;a another system in the Pacific and 4 more in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0821Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0821Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0821Cartoon-300x183.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\/drew-findling-trump-attorney-fani-willis_n_64dcc334e4b0eb9f33d7e728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost &#8211; Trump Lawyer On Georgia Case Has Eyebrow-Raising Tie To Prosecutor Fani Willis<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Findling gave $1,440 to Fani Willis\u2019 successful Democratic primary bid for Fulton County DA in July 2020, the outlet wrote, citing data from the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission. Meanwhile, he donated $8,400 for Biden\u2019s White House bid&#8230;. He told Insider at the time that differing political views do not stand in the way of him offering a vigorous defense against \u201cwrongful investigations.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/drew-findling-trump-attorney-fani-willis_n_64dcc334e4b0eb9f33d7e728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details<\/a>. I doubt that this means anything (except that he might be competent), but I&#8217;m surprised that Trump** isn&#8217;t all over it like stink on you-know-what.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/parenting-pride-aims-conservative-moms-211800724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Sentinel (via Yahoo! News) &#8211; \u2018Parenting with Pride\u2019 aims to take on conservative Moms for Liberty in Florida schools<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cThis is what Florida families really look like,\u201d said Brandon Wolf, spokesperson for Equality Florida as he gestured to the group of people with varying races, gender identities, sexualities and immigration statuses who had come to support the new initiative. \u201cFor years, parents and families just like the ones behind me have been under assault. \u2026 Politicians have waged war on these families turning their classrooms into political battlefields and descending school districts into utter chaos. But today marks a turning of the tide. Today marks a rise in the resistance against that agenda.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/parenting-pride-aims-conservative-moms-211800724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click hrough for article<\/a>. Yahoo! News provides news articles straight from their sources, which is why I cited the Sentinel. However, I did not look at the comments, and I recommend (based on prior experience) that ypu don&#8217;t either if you value your blood pressure. Too many little-y yahoos.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/trans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/trans.png 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/trans-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/trans-150x103.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/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 kept periodically checking on Hurricane Hilary. PP has at least one reader in southern Cal, and my BFF has family there. Just to make life more intresting, there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake near Ojai (Ventura Coounty) &#8211; if you hadn&#8217;t heard, that&#8217;s probably because compared to the storms it was trivial. And <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/open-thread-august-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],"class_list":["post-52749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","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\/52749","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=52749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52749\/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=52749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}