{"id":54107,"date":"2024-03-12T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54107"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:17:55","slug":"open-thread-march-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/12\/open-thread-march-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 12, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Biden sent his budget to Congress &#8211; a trifling $7.3 trillion. I wouldn&#8217;t count on Congres, particularly the House, to act constructively. Also, I learned VP Harris will visit Colorado today. No, I won&#8217;t be there, but I expect to get a report from CPR today or tomorrow. And I found a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/gperf\/ann-about\/10421\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the one-woman show about Ann Coulter<\/a>. It was made in 2020, and will be available through 2026. It runs abou an hour and 53 minutes. If you have never seen it, you may want to &#8211; and if you have seen it, you may want to see it again.<\/p>\n<p>Off topic, but, if you havent, please check out the open thread for March 9 &#8211; there&#8217;s news about Carrie (not, sadly good).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t doubt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218762252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this would make a lot of people angry<\/a> &#8211; if they would see it &#8211; which they probably won&#8217;t. &#8220;Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oubli\u00e9, parce qu&#8217;il a \u00e9t\u00e9 proprement fait&#8221; &#8211; Balzac &#8211; usually quoted in English as &#8220;Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you ever read <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/03\/black-women-opera-music-history-invisible-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The 19th Magazine&#8221;<\/a>, or if you saw this article in their newsletter, you instantly knew I would use it. Women&#8217;s History, Black History, even music history, all in one piece &#8211; of course I would.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DAzs0J2dzrc?si=1YICd4j9g7lFjDlF\" 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\/EbSsmDnu8eY?si=fMFu8tfXGxAcPRw9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RESCUE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RESCUE.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RESCUE-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RESCUE-150x96.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Biden sent his budget to Congress &#8211; a trifling $7.3 trillion. I wouldn&#8217;t count on Congres, particularly the House, to act constructively. Also, I learned VP Harris will visit Colorado today. No, I won&#8217;t be there, but I expect to get a report from CPR today or tomorrow. And I found a link <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/12\/open-thread-march-12-2024\/' 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":[4355,4837,4531,3866,3821,3760,5721,3718,4873,3831],"class_list":["post-54107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-dogs","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-joe-biden","tag-luck","tag-music","tag-womens-history","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\/54107","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=54107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54107\/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=54107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}