{"id":54522,"date":"2024-05-24T06:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54522"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T03:13:10","slug":"open-thread-may-24-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/open-thread-may-24-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 24 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I picked up a new Randy Rainbow parody, the first one he has made since &#8220;Don&#8217;t Arraign on My Parade, which was 9 months ago. (He made an &#8220;Interview with Mike Johnson,&#8221; but it&#8217;s not musical.) This one is called <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MMRxhfYSdhc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Forty-Five&#8221;<\/a> and based on &#8220;Nine to Five.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the link.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/elizabeth-warren-police-justice-department-bill_n_664e2a71e4b048d73b551b81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduction of a bill.<\/a> It doesn&#8217;t mean it will pass, with or without amendments. But it is IMO a good, even a great, bill and long overdue. Kudos to Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-school-board-courtney-gore-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is &#8211; unfortunately &#8211; unusual<\/a>. A littlr more of it and it would be more than Texas which would see improvement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_c8UXIEGmk4?si=3ccXKuWnuZjn03ew\" 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\/hbpTPNcPYjU?si=Nz2_QQYViuTcaB4h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Brave-Sir-Donald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Brave-Sir-Donald.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Brave-Sir-Donald-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Brave-Sir-Donald-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I picked up a new Randy Rainbow parody, the first one he has made since &#8220;Don&#8217;t Arraign on My Parade, which was 9 months ago. 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This is just the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/open-thread-may-24-2024\/' 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":[4355,5806,4531,3709,5781,3718,3731,4334,4926,4276,3831],"class_list":["post-54522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-department-of-justice","tag-dogs","tag-humor","tag-icc","tag-music","tag-parody","tag-policing","tag-randy-rainbow","tag-texas","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\/54522","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=54522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54522\/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=54522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}