{"id":54467,"date":"2024-05-13T05:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54467"},"modified":"2024-05-12T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:58:38","slug":"open-thread-may-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/13\/open-thread-may-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 13 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132222547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parody Project production.<\/a> I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s new, but it is delightful. (The original song is IMO deplorable, but this may redeem it.) Also, Trinette was by (and returns greetings). I had a whole bunch of stuff- trash, recyclables, and charity &#8211; which I needed help getting it out. After seeing Virgil, despite coming home exhausted, I had a burst of energy over the week. That helped me with the decision to start making it every other week to see him.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you needed, or someone you knw needs, yet another reason to do every possible thing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/aca-time-bomb-trump-biden_n_663e2bf4e4b03d2dfea55d67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prevent Trump** from returning to the White House<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This site was down yesterday evening, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/news\/how-do-you-approve-an-underground-toxic-waste-dump-without-telling-nobody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should be up today<\/a> .\u00a0 (And I don&#8217;t want to hear a single word about a PhD candidate using a double negative. There&#8217;s more to brains than formal grammar.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzK5gkfSCUY?si=KLk5mhQ5pfZjCWR9\" 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\/MgPzldlnUvw?si=jVQiIEMjmYJMZ6e7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/terror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/terror.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/terror-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/terror-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw another Parody Project production. I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s new, but it is delightful. (The original song is IMO deplorable, but this may redeem it.) Also, Trinette was by (and returns greetings). I had a whole bunch of stuff- trash, recyclables, and charity &#8211; which I needed help getting it out. After seeing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/13\/open-thread-may-13-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,3723,4531,4330,3731,3910,3838,3805],"class_list":["post-54467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-climate-change","tag-dogs","tag-environment","tag-parody","tag-public-health","tag-russia","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\/54467","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=54467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54467\/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=54467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}