{"id":54405,"date":"2024-04-29T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54405"},"modified":"2024-04-28T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:04:10","slug":"open-thread-april-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/29\/open-thread-april-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 29, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinete was by. She brought in my mail and took out my trash (and recyclables). We (I only helped a little) dismantled a chair which was broken beyond repair (my trash company doesn&#8217;t take furniture, but if we dismantle it andsend it out a little at a tim, it gets taken.) She says &#8220;Hi!&#8221; to all.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night&#8217;s letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-26-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> summarized last week. Much of is is familiar, but there are one or two things which, as far as I can tell, flew under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Schmidt writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/bad-faith-new-film-explores-how-christian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new movie, &#8220;Bad Faith,&#8221;<\/a> about the rise of Christian Nationalism and how dangerous it is. He provides a link to the trailer, as well as the locations where it can be streamed. It&#8217;s meant to be frightening, and it is, because Christian Nationalism is &#8211; well, I&#8217;ll say demonic. 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