{"id":54205,"date":"2024-03-29T06:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54205"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T22:31:00","slug":"open-thread-march-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/29\/open-thread-march-28-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 29, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up earlier than i had been doing, and got a few things accomplished, including my taxes. It should have been easier than it was had I not somehow lost track of my Social Security 1099, lost some time looking for it, and finally I had to go online and download it. But it&#8217;s don now. I even got the email the IRS has accepted it. (As I predicted, no money will change hands either way.)<\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins is very proud of <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/study-of-fatal-and-nonfatal-shootings-by-police-reveals-racial-disparities-dispatch-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this study<\/a>, and with reason. It&#8217;s the first ever To consider non-fatal shootings along with deaths (And it&#8217;s like pulling teeth just to get the truth on deaths.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m doing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-gary-indiana-lawsuit-guns-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-gun post today<\/a>. The two stories came out at the same time so although they&#8217;re not exactly the same, I feel they are related, and thought I would put them together<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJEy4Mro3B8?si=LBe8K2m9-fKIwFwA\" 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\/P9FbuXcZm1U?si=MnzEynqnIxNzAxAw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pandemic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pandemic.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pandemic-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pandemic-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up earlier than i had been doing, and got a few things accomplished, including my taxes. It should have been easier than it was had I not somehow lost track of my Social Security 1099, lost some time looking for it, and finally I had to go online and download it. But <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/29\/open-thread-march-28-2024\/' 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":[4355,4660,4321,3709,5738,4334,4227],"class_list":["post-54205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-goats","tag-guns","tag-humor","tag-kansas","tag-policing","tag-taxes","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\/54205","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=54205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54205\/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=54205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}