{"id":54064,"date":"2024-03-04T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54064"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:31:00","slug":"open-thread-march-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/open-thread-march-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by for the usual tasks of helping me (BTW she says hi back.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/02\/biden-brilliantly-issues-challenge-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is about last week&#8217;s border visits<\/a>.\u00a0 I really can&#8217;t be confident it will help (certainly not with crazy Reupublicans, but maybe with some voters.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-2-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson picked March 2<\/a>, the anniversary of US Steel (founded 1901), to write about that and about the policy changes made by Teddy Roosevelt. She writes late, so I did not get it until the 3rd, and today is the 4th, so it&#8217;s 2 days late. But it really should never be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132214474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Brando made a video for Meidas Touch<\/a> about what it&#8217;s like to be an addict, active and recovering. He made it in connection with Hunter Biden&#8217;s testimony. But I wish everyone could see it. I&#8217;m sharing the link to the DU article because you can always get from there to YouTube comments if you like, but you can&#8217;t go the other way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zebwzY-pcGk?si=ugqch1KOFJ33pEa6\" 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\/kix5L1cIFRY?si=8iOOp7JObIlIXDPu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/murder-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by for the usual tasks of helping me (BTW she says hi back.) This is about last week&#8217;s border visits.\u00a0 I really can&#8217;t be confident it will help (certainly not with crazy Reupublicans, but maybe with some voters.) Heather Cox Richardson picked March 2, the anniversary of US Steel (founded 1901), to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/open-thread-march-4-2024\/' 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":[5273,4355,4111,3866,4069,5716,4395,4873],"class_list":["post-54064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-addiction","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-history","tag-immigration","tag-phianthropy","tag-womens-health","tag-womens-history","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\/54064","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=54064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064\/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=54064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}