{"id":54428,"date":"2024-05-04T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54428"},"modified":"2024-05-03T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T01:01:40","slug":"open-thread-may-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/open-thread-may-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned from Progress Now Colorado that a fundraiser in Jefferson County for Kristi Noem has been cancelled. A short quote from the email: &#8220;We\u2019re proud to have called for the well-behaved and leashed dogs of Colorado and their loving owners to peacefully protest against Gov. Noem\u2019s fundraiser in Colorado. We asked attendees to bring extra doggie bags and ensure that the space we occupied would be left as clean as we found it. The reason this fundraiser was canceled is that Kristi Noem\u2019s values are not Colorado values, and organizers realized they were making a terrible political mistake bringing her here.&#8221; Some pregressives (most actually, if not all &#8211; there are such things as infiltraators) know how to stage a protest.<\/p>\n<p>CPR published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/04\/30\/phil-weiser-elijah-mcclain-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with the state&#8217;s Attorney General<\/a>. There&#8217;s an article followed by a transcript (and I expect it&#8217;s still possible to hear somewhere on the news portion of the website.) I consider Phil Weiser a good AG and intend to vote for his reelection.<\/p>\n<p>This is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/what-we-are-seeing-on-college-campuses-is-truly-disturbing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article about a podcast<\/a> regarding recent student protests. Certainly there&#8217;s a little bit of disturbance for just about everyone &#8211; and especially those who remember Kent State.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FgMM8bmeCSs?si=NE2tMDO7QQ_5BGgY\" 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\/DvSaHZmmum0?si=NKqOK-OEoCk28b-I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/again-64x64.jpeg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned from Progress Now Colorado that a fundraiser in Jefferson County for Kristi Noem has been cancelled. A short quote from the email: &#8220;We\u2019re proud to have called for the well-behaved and leashed dogs of Colorado and their loving owners to peacefully protest against Gov. Noem\u2019s fundraiser in Colorado. We asked attendees to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/open-thread-may-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":[4355,3762,4531,4831,5781,4115,4002],"class_list":["post-54428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-courts","tag-dogs","tag-free-speech","tag-icc","tag-justice","tag-protests","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\/54428","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=54428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54428\/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=54428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}