{"id":54488,"date":"2024-05-17T05:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54488"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:02:25","slug":"open-thread-may-17-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/open-thread-may-17-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 17 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although there&#8217;s more been published about it now, I decided to use this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218948582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first I heard of it<\/a>, to share. And the cherry on the sundae is that yes, Maggie was in court that day (as a &#8220;journalist&#8221;) so, whether intentionally or not, it was said to her face.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/may-15-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> combines encouraging news about the actual state of our economy with discouraging news about what most people think about the economy, and points up the importance of not only what the media report, but also how they report on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/05\/14\/ride-erie-train-tracks-on-a-bike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interesting idea<\/a>. It certainly could be a lot of fun. Has anyone told Pete Buttigieg about this? (apparently someone has, since the article says they have to abide by Federal Railroad rules.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82FCXFx57QY?si=QnoqRjnED49hXxxN\" 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\/KXPFOfUvSaM?si=y20olaDxBAre7ita\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lie.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lie-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lie-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lie-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although there&#8217;s more been published about it now, I decided to use this, the first I heard of it, to share. And the cherry on the sundae is that yes, Maggie was in court that day (as a &#8220;journalist&#8221;) so, whether intentionally or not, it was said to her face. This from Heather Cox <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/open-thread-may-17-2024\/' 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":[4355,3762,4531,3924,4354,5175,3910,4317],"class_list":["post-54488","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-gop-murder","tag-journalism","tag-polling","tag-public-health","tag-the-economy","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\/54488","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=54488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54488\/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=54488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}