{"id":54276,"date":"2024-04-10T05:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54276"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:01:09","slug":"open-thread-april-10-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/10\/open-thread-april-10-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 10, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Democratic Underground had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218846835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this short eclipse video from Xitter<\/a>. I&#8217;m not going to send you to Xitter, but the embed is worth watching. (If you read the comments, you&#8217;ll know it was first posted by Eric Swalwell.)<\/p>\n<p>Because this is not exactly current events, I held it for a few days. Heather Cox Richardson reviews the <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-7-2024-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history of Yellowstone and of the Antiquities Act<\/a>. It made me realize how close we came to not having something I have always taken for granted &#8211; our National Park system. I&#8217;ll try not to take it for granted any more.<\/p>\n<p>Well,<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2024\/04\/06\/colorado-republican-party-kicks-out-colorado-sun-reporter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this doesn&#8217;t look good<\/a> for my Congressinal District (Not that anything ever looks good for my Congressinal District.) On the other hand,perhaps, with enough publicity about this creep (of course I mean Williams, not Fish)a Dem might be able to win &#8211; or at the very least to make a good showing, which might be able to carry forward to 2026.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EWKaAdptJyc?si=n87yBeidqKItJkYU\" 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\/P6RC9Iqloec?si=-kIBfLa1g0gChAl7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eclipse.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eclipse-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eclipse-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Democratic Underground had this short eclipse video from Xitter. I&#8217;m not going to send you to Xitter, but the embed is worth watching. (If you read the comments, you&#8217;ll know it was first posted by Eric Swalwell.) Because this is not exactly current events, I held it for a few days. Heather Cox Richardson <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/10\/open-thread-april-10-2024\/' 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":[4355,5538,4553,4111,4344,5749,5391,4755,5750,5751,3805],"class_list":["post-54276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-antiquities-act","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-colorado","tag-eclipse","tag-gop-abuse-of-power","tag-national-park-service","tag-nuclear-stuff","tag-preaa-freedom","tag-ukraine","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\/54276","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=54276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276\/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=54276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}