{"id":54440,"date":"2024-05-07T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54440"},"modified":"2024-05-07T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:24:18","slug":"open-thread-may-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/open-thread-may-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 7, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received an Axios alert emai telling me that Bernie Sanders is running for reelection. Good. I&#8217;m not a big fan of Axios editorially, but their alerts are usually the first time a nugget of news hits my inbox. I also received an email from the National Popular Vote Compact that Maine has joined. They are working steadily in other states as well. I wouldnn&#8217;t get my hopes up too high, but it&#8217;s close enough now that it would not be impossible for us to have enough states by November.<\/p>\n<p>Some<a href=\"http:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> details here<\/a> I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere. Of course that may be just me.<\/p>\n<p>As angry as we all were and are to learn that Clarence Thomas &#8211; and other justices &#8211; have failed todisclose high-dollar gifts from billionaires, I think we&#8217;d rather know about it than not know about it. Certainly the Pulitzer Prize people would.. They have awarded Pro Publica the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/pulitzer-prize-announcement-propublica-supreme-court\">Gold Medal for Public Service<\/a> for breaking the story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6ogvfjrmi0?si=TAR10CuVRN0v7sPh\" 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\/YgHLXd2MNVY?si=GTsWulls4xkMXOg8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/talk.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/talk-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/talk-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received an Axios alert emai telling me that Bernie Sanders is running for reelection. Good. I&#8217;m not a big fan of Axios editorially, but their alerts are usually the first time a nugget of news hits my inbox. I also received an email from the National Popular Vote Compact that Maine has joined. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/open-thread-may-7-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3762,3781,4213,4115,3865,3831],"class_list":["post-54440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-courts","tag-elections","tag-electoral-college","tag-justice","tag-middle-east","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\/54440","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=54440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54440\/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=54440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}