{"id":53962,"date":"2024-02-14T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53962"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:52:43","slug":"open-thread-february-14-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/open-thread-february-14-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 14, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my ballot for the Presidential primary arrived. The election is March 5th. I&#8217;ve been avoiding going out the front door since my hospital stay, and even more so, avoiding the porch steps (the last time I ventured on them wasthe day I came home, and that was one way only.) But with that much time, and Trinette coming Sunday, I&#8217;m sure I can wait tll then. I know for whom I am voting, and it&#8217;s only one block to fill in, and if she takes it out the same day it comes in, it should get there in time easily.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Valentine-Sweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Valentine-Sweet.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Valentine-Sweet-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Valentine-Sweet-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblowersblog.org\/government-whistleblowers\/whistleblower-who-established-hostile-work-protections-for-federal-employees-sues-to-enforce-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;m sharing this as a Black Histoy story<\/a> because IMO there&#8217;s no doubt that it is one. You can make up your own mind,of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-10-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is a crash course in foreign affairs<\/a>. If that makes it sound difficult &#8211; it isn&#8217;t. And it explains a lot about how we got to this point. And it&#8217;s available for free to anyne, so you can share (you might want to mention scrolling a little for &#8220;continue reading.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBoWva2OLm8?si=f1aK8RxJgngh-HtX\" 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\/qIfY1dVeGnU?si=L9oXMup6hKGarM8g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/other.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/other.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/other-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/other-150x134.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my ballot for the Presidential primary arrived. The election is March 5th. I&#8217;ve been avoiding going out the front door since my hospital stay, and even more so, avoiding the porch steps (the last time I ventured on them wasthe day I came home, and that was one way only.) But with that much <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/open-thread-february-14-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,4111,4531,5703,3725,3821,3760,4115,5154,4630,3831],"class_list":["post-53962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-egypt","tag-holiday","tag-israel","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice","tag-treaties","tag-whistleblowers","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\/53962","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=53962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962\/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=53962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}