{"id":54171,"date":"2024-03-22T06:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54171"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:24:01","slug":"open-thread-march-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/22\/open-thread-march-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 22, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was still running late, but not quite as late. Hopefully I&#8221;ll catch up eventually.<\/p>\n<p>I am of two minds about sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2024\/03\/19\/goon-squad-officers-face-sentencing-in-mississippi-torture-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stories like this one<\/a>, because I don&#8217;t want to give anyone the impression that it&#8217;s only in the South (and Mississippi does get a lot of flak). Things like this can happen literally anywhere in the U.S. And you don&#8217;t even have to be a minority for it to happen to you &#8211; as you will see if you can get past enough of the violence to see the third photo. Trigger warning.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually fine with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/these-under-the-radar-rulings-in-the-stormy-daniels-case-are-really-bad-for-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Right Wing Media<\/a> keeping these rulings and what they mean under the radar for now. Not that MAGAts would understand the implications (do any of them know what an &#8220;implication&#8221; is?) but it wouldn;t be hard to scare them into armed protest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBy8Uzh7PG0?si=SMUKOS1NoGQzHN0G\" 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\/9bJ39LFcp80?si=TNt4P3nbChiS_Qda\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/taught-64x64.jpeg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was still running late, but not quite as late. Hopefully I&#8221;ll catch up eventually. I am of two minds about sharing stories like this one, because I don&#8217;t want to give anyone the impression that it&#8217;s only in the South (and Mississippi does get a lot of flak). Things like this can happen <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/22\/open-thread-march-22-2024\/' 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":[4355,4531,3711,3865,3998,3748,5733,4924,3831],"class_list":["post-54171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-gop-crimes","tag-middle-east","tag-police-misconduct","tag-racism","tag-real-life-civil-discourse","tag-united-nations","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\/54171","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=54171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54171\/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=54171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}