{"id":54387,"date":"2024-04-25T06:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54387"},"modified":"2024-04-24T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T04:15:43","slug":"open-thread-april-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/open-thread-april-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Arizona State House voted to overturn the 1864 abortion law, the one whose author has been so discredited. If it gets through the Senate, the Democratic Governor will, I am sure, sign it. Arizona appears to be on a roll &#8211; they also indicted some election conspirators, including Giuliani and Meadows. Also, my radio station was playing Passover music (it&#8217;s not till Tuesday night, but this DJ normally only works this station on Wednesdays, so next week would be late. (The rest of the time he works at the sister station whoch features jazz.) That made me think that 613&#8217;s Passover piece might be up, and it is. They are a group which makes videos for Jewish holidays, picking an artist to parody and then signing information about the holiday in a nedley of that artist&#8217;s works. This year&#8217;s is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7L2vv9uXACk?si=E8m1TkbXw496D58a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Matza Mia&#8221;<\/a>, parodying Abba (of course).<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for some really juicy news about what a fiasco Trump&#8217;s trial is being (especially on Trump&#8217;s side), <a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/wow-donalds-8-new-courtroom-fails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Trump is your go-to source<\/a>. This column is dated Wednesday, but looks back to Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/opening-statements-catch-and-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance has links<\/a> to trial transcripts and documents. This might be a good one to save as a fact-checker reference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cd4Ed3RFaU4?si=3Kx1mlGS2LViT972\" 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\/6ZkbhZdNwk8?si=MqTcpE0hdnyUwVfx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/boris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/boris.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/boris-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/boris-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/boris-768x579.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Arizona State House voted to overturn the 1864 abortion law, the one whose author has been so discredited. If it gets through the Senate, the Democratic Governor will, I am sure, sign it. Arizona appears to be on a roll &#8211; they also indicted some election conspirators, including Giuliani and Meadows. Also, my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/open-thread-april-25-2024\/' 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":[4355,4614,3762,4531,3725,4115,5771,3865,3838,4395,3831],"class_list":["post-54387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-arizona","tag-courts","tag-dogs","tag-holiday","tag-justice","tag-mary-trump","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-womens-health","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\/54387","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=54387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54387\/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=54387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}