{"id":54245,"date":"2024-04-05T06:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54245"},"modified":"2024-04-05T20:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T03:32:03","slug":"open-thread-april-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday must have been an interesting day. I reveived four separate Axios alerts before 1:30 pm. The first was about Democrats putting pressue on Mike Johnson over foreign aid, particularly Ukraine (sure glad to hear that.) The second was that the judge on the Georgia cas rejected Trump&#8217;s &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; challenge to the gag order &#8211; also good. The third &#8211; and this is huge &#8211; No Labels is dropping out of the Presidential race. and the final one was to announce that Aileen (&#8220;Loose&#8221;) Cannon has again dismissed a Trump** motion to dismiss his case.Four good new breaking alerts in one day is, to put it mildly, rare.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that this was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/the-black-history-story-you-didnt-know-behind-one-of-be-1851382116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights song<\/a>. I did not know it was written specifically for the Little Rock Nine. I&#8217;m glad to have learned.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned in a comment that the person who spilled the beans on Kyle Rittenhouse was the defense lawyer at his trial. <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/04\/killer-kyles-ex-spokesperson-spills-beans#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This story has the details<\/a>. I think he&#8217;s upset that he was taken in and wants to ensure as best he can that no one else is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCsUwvp2E3M?si=nCGg78g2eTPZmMDm\" 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\/JZKTNQpIOeY?si=b06OjL100lRIRY7N\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sistine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sistine.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sistine-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sistine-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday must have been an interesting day. I reveived four separate Axios alerts before 1:30 pm. The first was about Democrats putting pressue on Mike Johnson over foreign aid, particularly Ukraine (sure glad to hear that.) The second was that the judge on the Georgia cas rejected Trump&#8217;s &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; challenge to the gag order <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2024\/' 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":[4355,5742,4553,4043,4531,3781,4283,3746,3751,3718],"class_list":["post-54245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-arrogance","tag-campaign-2026","tag-civil-rights","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-music","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\/54245","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=54245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54245\/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=54245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}