{"id":53900,"date":"2024-02-02T05:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53900"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T02:50:49","slug":"open-thread-february-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/open-thread-february-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 2, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday &#8211; well, actually all this week I have been sleeping later than usual. I&#8217;m pretty cool with that, except that I don&#8217;t want to do it Saturday &#8211; the radio opera will be Anthony Davis&#8217;s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. It premiered in 1986&#8230; so it&#8217;s about time it came to the Met. Two of his four other operas have been &#8220;The Central Park Five,&#8221; for which he won a Pulitzer (but which I have not heard) and &#8220;Amistad,&#8221; which I have heard, on the radio, from Chicago Lyric Opera, and which choked me up. That must be almost 20 years ago &#8211; or more &#8211; , since I attempted to capture it on cassette tape, and only partially succeeded. Do I need to say that this Anthony Davis does not play pro basketball? So if you wasnt to learn more, be sure to Google (or Duck Duck Go) &#8220;Anthony Davis composer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/how-trump-wins-the-presidency-even\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich has posted an article<\/a> which is, or ought to be, pretty scary. How do you even prepare for something like that?And we know there are a lot of people who would gladly go along with it. We need our best legal minds to start getting on it right now (yesterday would be even better.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/texas-ignores-the-constitution-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance explains the border &#8220;crisis&#8221;<\/a> as well as possible. But it&#8217;s hard to explain why states like Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Ohio are so worried. We don&#8217;t actually have a problem with illegals from Canada &#8211; do we? (By the way the answer to that first question is &#8220;No.&#8221; If you secede, you lose your citizenship. It&#8217;s not like someone who moves to another country but retains US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7WC5fFP3yL4?si=xkrdPNiL7i7LKHjC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTvL7R9-Y2Y?si=6HsviCCY41C94jl6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/wokeshirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/wokeshirt.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/wokeshirt-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/wokeshirt-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday &#8211; well, actually all this week I have been sleeping later than usual. 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It premiered in 1986&#8230; so it&#8217;s about time it came to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/open-thread-february-2-2024\/' 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":[4553,4746,3765,3781,4069,3811,4215],"class_list":["post-53900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-campaign-2026","tag-civil-war","tag-election-theft","tag-elections","tag-immigration","tag-personal","tag-secession","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\/53900","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=53900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53900\/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=53900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}