{"id":54241,"date":"2024-04-04T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54241"},"modified":"2024-04-03T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:31:45","slug":"open-thread-april-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/open-thread-april-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Hump Day, I accomplished almost nothing. Fortunately, there are other days.<\/p>\n<p>On the last day of Women&#8217;s History Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-31-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> posted a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (And of Marty, from when they met.) I held it a few days because it&#8217;s timeless, as opposed to court and political news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132218198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thom Hartmann<\/a> frequently uses clickbaity headlines, but he knows a fact when he sees one &#8211; his content is as reliable as possible.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2024\/4\/3\/2233138\/-Jack-Smith-Takes-First-Step-Toward-Removing-Aileen-Cannon-From-Case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">danarheaelliott&#8217;s keyboard<\/a> to God&#8217;s monitor. I will say that some of this is so downright idiotic that people of normal and up intelligence may be confused. Don&#8217;t worry about it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7B9Hngv-WZQ?si=J4XvePxAxcuPCD-k\" 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\/YS0S3_jQNX0?si=33QiRmYGpMf7ZB1Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/recess-1536x1175.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Hump Day, I accomplished almost nothing. 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Thom Hartmann <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/open-thread-april-4-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3762,4531,5361,4115,3836,3812,4873],"class_list":["post-54241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-courts","tag-dogs","tag-fascists","tag-justice","tag-ruth-bader-ginsburg","tag-war-crimes","tag-womens-history","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\/54241","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=54241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54241\/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=54241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}