{"id":54186,"date":"2024-03-25T06:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54186"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T04:19:23","slug":"open-thread-march-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/open-thread-march-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t do much. I received an order of groceries and for once got everything I ordered and nothing I didn&#8217;t. The news was light also, so I&#8217;m going with one deep and one women&#8217;s history today. When I say deep, I mean both serious and scary. Definitely worth some thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-21-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> takes Talking Points Memo&#8217;s exposure of the SACR (Society for American Civic Renewal) and uses her knowledge of history to compare it to various happenings in our own history, leading up to the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/01\/politico-slimes-trade-rep-katherine-tai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I didn&#8217;t know who she was<\/a>. I&#8217;m glad to have learned.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0V6h9H7VGYA?si=iOyaD92Zoj00hEaW\">a nice feel-good video<\/a> to watch when you&#8217;re feeling down (and we all do sometimes.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FU1PE8USMQs?si=7XtUxu_yBkCJjhAi\" 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\/-Xzu-HaJDMQ?si=kvCHA24VwRhexGxk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/devolution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/devolution.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/devolution-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/devolution-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/devolution-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t do much. I received an order of groceries and for once got everything I ordered and nothing I didn&#8217;t. The news was light also, so I&#8217;m going with one deep and one women&#8217;s history today. When I say deep, I mean both serious and scary. Definitely worth some thought. Heather Cox Richardson <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/open-thread-march-25-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3788,5339,3744,3866,3865,4924,4873,3831],"class_list":["post-54186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-democrats","tag-gop-devolution","tag-gop-fascism","tag-history","tag-middle-east","tag-united-nations","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\/54186","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=54186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54186\/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=54186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}