{"id":53911,"date":"2024-02-03T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53911"},"modified":"2024-02-02T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T04:15:31","slug":"open-thread-february-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/03\/open-thread-february-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 3, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,it was pretty quiet again, though there was a grocery delivery. I may be getting the hang of how to ask for help getting them in the house, or I may just have been lucky in who was assigned, but either way, it went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/vv-c4-em-feb24-red\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoteVets is up in arms,<\/a> almost literally (quite literally if you can count words and images as weapons of war.) Yes, the link I&#8217;m providing is to a donation page, but at least at this page you can watch it without YouTube ads popping up. If you&#8217;re not aware of the kerfuffle from MAGA after they released their previous ad, this one may make you furious.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how well I&#8217;ll be able to keep up with black history this month, but <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/02\/black-women-party-chairs-democratic-primary-states\/\">I don&#8217;t think I could have passed this up in any month<\/a>. It&#8217;s good, very good, to see the &#8220;backbone of the party&#8221; receiving some the recognition which it so richly deserves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WmFNJmAXfKI?si=hKIQrgttR57uDLPC\" 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\/5Iihn0QnEas?si=ysGC_Q4ufmcQ7ENe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/border.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/border.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/border-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/border-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,it was pretty quiet again, though there was a grocery delivery. I may be getting the hang of how to ask for help getting them in the house, or I may just have been lucky in who was assigned, but either way, it went smoothly. VoteVets is up in arms, almost literally (quite literally if <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/03\/open-thread-february-3-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4837,5325,4553,4776,3788,4048,3831],"class_list":["post-53911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-black-women","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cows","tag-democrats","tag-veterans","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\/53911","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=53911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}