{"id":53886,"date":"2024-01-30T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53886"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:30:41","slug":"open-thread-january-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/open-thread-january-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 30, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept late, wnt to bed early-ish, and accomplished very little in between. I can&#8217;t say I feel bad about it &#8211; it was clearly needed &#8211; but I was finding it difficult to describe it. I guess this is as good as anything.\u00a0 Now, tomorrow &#8211; on the 31st &#8211; I will load all the contining logos and images that we use.\u00a0 I was in no shape to do it on December 31, but on January 31st, I&#8217;ll have no need to stay up late to do it.\u00a0 And I won&#8217;t have as many as I did a year ago either.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/exonerations-cook-county-convictions-darrien-harris-77e793f3ad6cf97bd896ba892b420718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is good news<\/a>, it is also too little, too late. Between the systemically excluding black jurors (from the jury pool &#8211; they never made it to <em>voir dire<\/em>) to the truly outrageous use of a blind man as an eyewitness, this case should have been laughed out of court before it started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3u4FQx4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another gift from my cousin.<\/a> The Post calls this an opinion piece &#8211; but I see very little opinion accompanied by a lot of history and Constitution (which might actually be a good rule for opinion pieces in general, mightn&#8217;t it.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjE6HIExUX0?si=9HpDLnt4cm6tiYSO\" 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\/k-IVZa-4zlY?si=8WOIPVVNKtM0lMbg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept late, wnt to bed early-ish, and accomplished very little in between. I can&#8217;t say I feel bad about it &#8211; it was clearly needed &#8211; but I was finding it difficult to describe it. I guess this is as good as anything.\u00a0 Now, tomorrow &#8211; on the 31st &#8211; I will load <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/open-thread-january-30-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4531,3865,4899,3831],"class_list":["post-53886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-middle-east","tag-squirrels","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\/53886","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=53886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}