{"id":53894,"date":"2024-01-31T05:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53894"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:52:40","slug":"open-thread-january-31-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/open-thread-january-31-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 31, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218639304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I see that San Diego quite literally dodged a bullet<\/a> &#8211; or hundreds. Colleen, I&#8217;m so glad y&#8217;all dodged it. I&#8217;m so sorry it got close. (Comment #3 looks to be chillingly revealing.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/january-29-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> has som updates on the Middle East, including Jordan. And including the status of negotiatons.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/sister-helen-prejean-alabama-just-showed-why-we-must-kill-the-death-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sister Helen has some words for Alabama (and, in advance, for Texas.)<\/a> I wish I could think that they would change any minds. But I fear one must have a mind in the first place in order to change it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y310oJHLDzk?si=CipgumgV2Bqg6Kcl\" 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\/klnKNNT9xRc?si=1GJjFOlPu634r-k5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/interview.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/interview-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/interview-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I see that San Diego quite literally dodged a bullet &#8211; or hundreds. Colleen, I&#8217;m so glad y&#8217;all dodged it. I&#8217;m so sorry it got close. (Comment #3 looks to be chillingly revealing.) Heather Cox Richardson has som updates on the Middle East, including Jordan. And including the status of negotiatons. And Sister Helen <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/open-thread-january-31-2024\/' 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":[4554,4743,4111,3865],"class_list":["post-53894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-california","tag-capital-punishment","tag-cats","tag-middle-east","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\/53894","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=53894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53894\/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=53894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}