{"id":54226,"date":"2024-04-01T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54226"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:14:16","slug":"open-thread-april-1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/01\/open-thread-april-1-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by &#8211; she says hello to all &#8211; we chatted for a long time, though. After she left, I renewed my PBS membership and changed my password on a website I have often bought jewelry supplies from, and which has just upgraded their site and have asked every customer to change their password. They said March 29, but I thought I&#8217;d wait and maybe avoid the rush. It went smoothly, which might have meen me waiting or it might just jhave been the upgrade working well. Anyway, it&#8217;s done. I hope everyone&#8217;s Easter went well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/03\/justice-kbj-smacks-down-alitos-scientific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicely done. And about time someone did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/maricopa-transforms-tabulation-center-into-encampment-to-avoid-another-lollapalooza-for-the-alt-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPM looks a litle different<\/a> from other Substack users &#8211; I found two places I had to click to keep reading (both in the upper right of the page or the box) and a third when I refreshed the page to copy the URL. But I think you&#8217;ll find the information worth while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/news\/ex-gop-candidate-allegedly-hired-people-to-kill-witnesses-in-shootings-of-homes-of-democratix-politicians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Someone who wants to emulate Trump**<\/a> had better take steps first to ensure that people believe he &#8211; or she &#8211; or they &#8211; have lots of money. The technique doesn&#8217;t work so well without that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EYdjbXu9bKg?si=MhbSSNLNUyHsEXxy\" 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\/OlWQj6oZcRo?si=MqwEifu89xtdCHqX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1750\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC.jpeg 1750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC-1024x819.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC-150x120.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Oh-JC-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1750px) 100vw, 1750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by &#8211; she says hello to all &#8211; we chatted for a long time, though. After she left, I renewed my PBS membership and changed my password on a website I have often bought jewelry supplies from, and which has just upgraded their site and have asked every customer to change their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/01\/open-thread-april-1-2024\/' 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":[4355,4614,4553,4531,3781,3924,5653,3865,3972,3831],"class_list":["post-54226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-arizona","tag-campaign-2026","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-gop-murder","tag-jesus-christ","tag-middle-east","tag-scotus","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\/54226","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=54226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54226\/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=54226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}