{"id":53983,"date":"2024-02-17T05:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53983"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T02:43:29","slug":"open-thread-february-16-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/17\/open-thread-february-16-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 17, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a news alert from Axios alleged that Alex Navalny has died. Their source is the Russian Prison System, which I would not trust to be truuthful, but it&#8217;s also hard to believe it didn&#8217;t happen earlier. R.I.P. Alexei. Avaaz is collecting signatures for <a href=\"http:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/campaign\/en\/navalny_tribute_loc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tribute to him<\/a>.\u00a0 Also we had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/02\/16\/deadly-shooting-locks-down-university-of-colorado-colorado-springs-uccs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;mass shooting&#8221; here of our own<\/a> &#8211; a little different in that it appears to have happened inside a dorm, during the might, and so far not much evidence &#8211; except two dead people with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Mary watched <a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/wow-key-brave-fani-willis-quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fani Willis&#8217;s entire testimony<\/a> (I only had time for a few clips) and this summary-through-categorized-excerpts is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-15-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is not nearly as much fun<\/a> &#8230; but it&#8217;s likely to have a more direct effect on all of us. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WphXMwFVRf0?si=xfQUWUvX-eP33EiM\" 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\/WKiRl0GYoqs?si=PV0ue1i_0BFJ6VRS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/chain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/chain.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/chain-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/chain-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a news alert from Axios alleged that Alex Navalny has died. Their source is the Russian Prison System, which I would not trust to be truuthful, but it&#8217;s also hard to believe it didn&#8217;t happen earlier. R.I.P. Alexei. Avaaz is collecting signatures for a tribute to him.\u00a0 Also we had a &#8220;mass shooting&#8221; here <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/17\/open-thread-february-16-2024-2\/' 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":[4355,4111,4173,3717,4115,3735,4515,3748],"class_list":["post-53983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-georgia","tag-gop-violence","tag-justice","tag-misogyny","tag-new-york","tag-racism","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\/53983","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=53983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53983\/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=53983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}