{"id":53865,"date":"2024-01-26T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53865"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T02:37:49","slug":"open-thread-january-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/open-thread-january-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 26, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up somewhat earlier than I had been doing&#8230; which means I also got sleep earlier than I had been doing. But I did accomplish this. And we shall see whether this attempt to change the shape of my day works or not (i expect it will through opera day, and not much if any after.)<\/p>\n<p>OK, this isn&#8217;t really news &#8211; it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/democrats-are-having-a-blast-making-a-circus-of-the-gops-hunter-biden-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recap and overview of the House Dems campaign<\/a> to make the House Oversight Committee look like a multiple of The Three stooges. Not that that&#8217;s difficult, but I don&#8217;t know that we have ever seen such a coordinated effort from elected Dems before &#8211; and guess who is masterminding it. Three cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10143184647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this really is news,<\/a> and about GD time too. My link is to Democratic Underground, but this DUer got it from Reuters, so in case you want more detail, that&#8217;s where to go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ho1ZW34BMLE?si=cepz587KZ6bhJxjK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3OafW8VTKl0?si=2w1hFCM8m_68Ry89\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/If-Only.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/If-Only.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/If-Only-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/If-Only-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up somewhat earlier than I had been doing&#8230; which means I also got sleep earlier than I had been doing. But I did accomplish this. And we shall see whether this attempt to change the shape of my day works or not (i expect it will through opera day, and not much <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/open-thread-january-26-2024\/' 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":[4355,4614,4553,4531,3711,3745,5682,5683,3928,3831],"class_list":["post-53865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-arizona","tag-campaign-2026","tag-dogs","tag-gop-crimes","tag-nato","tag-sweden","tag-turkiye","tag-vote-blue","tag-world","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\/53865","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=53865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53865\/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=53865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}