{"id":54234,"date":"2024-04-03T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54234"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:38:43","slug":"open-thread-april-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/open-thread-april-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 3, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I looked up on the HRA website to make sure that a payment of $10.84 was sent to one of the providers involved in my hospital and rehab time. Because they keep billing me and billing me &#8211; and I paid it. I did find the proof, with all the details- including the date the check was cashed &#8211; which was March 27. So I made no attempt to contact them right away. But I did take a screenshot and circled a few details, and saved it, so if it doesn&#8217;t (finally) stop now, I&#8217;ll be prepared. After the one I was looking for information on yesterday, I think there are now few enough who haven&#8217;t billed me to make a separate list of them in one place so I won&#8217;t have to go through 9 MSEs for every bill.<\/p>\n<p>The playbook is straight out of the 1930s. <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-5-step-fascist-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich spells it out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joyce Vance&#8217;s weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-caa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221;<\/a> is generally useful,and this week&#8217;s appears to be no exception, even a couple of days late.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/02\/uae-gaza-aid-pause-israel-strike-world-central-kitchen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this was just revealed yesterday<\/a>. You should have heard about it &#8211; it&#8217;s a story large numbers of people will care about (and get angry. I did see it in The Daily Beast &#8211; they interviewed Chef Jose Andr\u00e9s and got an earful.) DU has the story, but they got it from a xeet from World Central Kitchen. A commenter there found it on Yahoo! news.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yc2_gVycu80?si=dKQ2UI2LpuOs8EGY\" 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\/Gls41Rk5Wi8?si=uUnxQyJWEoSDHZYg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Better-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I looked up on the HRA website to make sure that a payment of $10.84 was sent to one of the providers involved in my hospital and rehab time. Because they keep billing me and billing me &#8211; and I paid it. I did find the proof, with all the details- including the date <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/open-thread-april-3-2024\/' 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":[4355,4364,4531,3744,4115,3865,4515,3812,3831],"class_list":["post-54234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-church-state","tag-dogs","tag-gop-fascism","tag-justice","tag-middle-east","tag-new-york","tag-war-crimes","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\/54234","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=54234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54234\/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=54234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}