{"id":52794,"date":"2023-08-25T05:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52794"},"modified":"2023-08-24T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:30:40","slug":"open-thread-august-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/open-thread-august-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 25, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had not watched the debate, so I read about it some, and was very glad I had not tried to watch it. I can give you a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/live-republican-debate-or-criminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette&#8217;s sassy and NSFW liveblog<\/a>, but seriously, reactions to it are all over the net, and easy to find. Also from Wonkette, its newsletter contained a link to a different site (called &#8220;Atlas Obscura&#8221;), specifically to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/eleanor-roosevelt-world-war-2-pacific-guadalcanal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article about Eleanor Roosevelt<\/a> including some facts which today are certainly little known. Anyone who like me admired the heck out of Mrs. Roosevelt from the first day I heard about her will be interested.\u00a0 I warn you that it&#8217;s a site which is easy to fall into and get lost for days. I mean that as a compliment.\u00a0 Also yesterday, Trump** fired Drew Findling, a name you may remember from Monday&#8217;s Open Thread.\u00a0 Gee, I wonder why \/s.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; 25 0825Cartoon.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2wZxTkjdmb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2023\/08\/22\/new-evidence-bolsters-downwinders-claims-as-efforts-to-expand-reca-advance-in-congress\/\">New evidence bolsters downwinders\u2019 claims as efforts to expand RECA advance in Congress<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;New evidence bolsters downwinders\u2019 claims as efforts to expand RECA advance in Congress&#8221; &#8212; NM Political Report\" src=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2023\/08\/22\/new-evidence-bolsters-downwinders-claims-as-efforts-to-expand-reca-advance-in-congress\/embed\/#?secret=SukrwsJBwl#?secret=2wZxTkjdmb\" data-secret=\"2wZxTkjdmb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nNew Mexico Political Report &#8211; New evidence bolsters downwinders\u2019 claims as efforts to expand RECA advance in Congress<br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Radioactive fallout from the Trinity Test site covered virtually all of New Mexico and reached as far away as Canada, according to new evidence. But the people who lived closest to the site, and have suffered the health consequences such as cancer, have not received any compensation from the federal government. The new evidence, along with new efforts to help residents of Missouri impacted by radioactive waste, may help New Mexico downwinders finally receive the compensation.<br \/>\nClick through for article. Almost 80 years and an opera and a few movies later, we are still dealng with the Trinity Project. (Of course, all those Republicans in office didn&#8217;t help a bit.)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/otter.ai\/u\/R6n5K0u9-LkZMVFX_bT4XCbhUwk<br \/>\nSteve Schmidt &#8211; Tucker and Donald &#8211; a Dangerous Duo<br \/>\nQuote &#8211; The other travesty that took place last night was the bizarre interview between Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. Here, I talk about why their message is so dangerous.<br \/>\nClick through direct to transcript. Steve is mostly posting videos now, and my link is not to his Substack page, but the\u00a0 transcript site. If you want, you can listen while you read, and the site wll conveniently highlight each word as it&#8217;s said. But you don&#8217;t have to.\u00a0 You can just read it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not long.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters.png 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mass-Debaters-64x64.png 64w\" 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 had not watched the debate, so I read about it some, and was very glad I had not tried to watch it. I can give you a link to Wonkette&#8217;s sassy and NSFW liveblog, but seriously, reactions to it are all over the net, and easy to find. Also from Wonkette, its newsletter <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/open-thread-august-25-2023\/' 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":[3704,5188,5555,3751,4878,4893,5556],"class_list":["post-52794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-debate","tag-fallout","tag-gop-insanity","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-radiation","tag-trinity-test","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\/52794","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=52794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52794\/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=52794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}