{"id":54037,"date":"2024-02-27T05:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54037"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T03:49:31","slug":"open-thread-february-27-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/27\/open-thread-february-27-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 27, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept in, and needed it. But as a result I didn&#8217;t get to reading comments until 9 pm. So if when you looked I hadn&#8217;t rec&#8217;ed you, you might check again, or check at Disqus.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s somewhere between difficult and impossible to evaluate the accuracy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-russian-hero-rising-from-alexei-navalnys-shadowand-gunning-for-vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information<\/a> coming from halfway around the world, and from a nation not known for truth &#8211; but I surely hope some good comes of this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-25c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> was so tired from cleaning chicken coops last weekend that her weekly &#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221; column was late. Which means I did not see it until yesterday. Here it is, and there is some interesting stuff in it, much of which is not aboutTrump**.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PP-SavgclKo?si=tex7NHUNq3WFBEvh\" 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\/_1UCtqKvrEM?si=txj4s5EVmNtQnje3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sneakers-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept in, and needed it. But as a result I didn&#8217;t get to reading comments until 9 pm. So if when you looked I hadn&#8217;t rec&#8217;ed you, you might check again, or check at Disqus. It&#8217;s somewhere between difficult and impossible to evaluate the accuracy of information coming from halfway around the world, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/27\/open-thread-february-27-2024\/' 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":[4118,4355,4553,5144,5714,5713,5712,4395],"class_list":["post-54037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-campaign-finance","tag-chickens","tag-ivf","tag-raccoons","tag-womens-health","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\/54037","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=54037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54037\/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=54037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}