{"id":54570,"date":"2024-06-01T06:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54570"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:43:17","slug":"open-thread-june-1-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/open-thread-june-1-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 1 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as promised, Robert Reich posted <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/debunking-myth-1-economics-is-an\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 1 in his new DEBUNK<\/a> series. This kink is to his Substack addres; it includes a transcript of his video (just under 3 minutes) and a link to it (and it has good CC.) Also, I got my new water heater inspected by the regional authority (I forget what they call it. The inspector wants a bit more support on a couple of tubes at the top, but he won&#8217;t have to come back &#8211; he can email my plumber and the plumber can email him back a photo. It&#8217;s good to ba able to go through the mud room again without special leak-proof footwear (which is also uncomfortable.)<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/dddmorninagmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/a-turning-point-in-americas-cold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> is thoughtful, scary, and I believe motivating to keep up the fight for justice, which sadly will never end,<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/uyVn3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more a curiosity than breaking news<\/a> &#8211; certainly I was curios after reading the headline, and also curious to see whether the method shared by someone at Democratic Underground to make a paywalled article accessible to anyone would work. (Spoiler: It does. Yippee!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ym9gbDpewwc?si=i-9NYnFJ2Tev1jd4\" 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\/RnTimlWTiO0?si=SEXlFeM35dc0d0lo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/media-pretend-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as promised, Robert Reich posted Episode 1 in his new DEBUNK series. This kink is to his Substack addres; it includes a transcript of his video (just under 3 minutes) and a link to it (and it has good CC.) Also, I got my new water heater inspected by the regional authority (I forget <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/open-thread-june-1-2024-2\/' 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":[4355,5817,4531,5815,4276,5816],"class_list":["post-54570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-convicted-felon","tag-dogs","tag-economics","tag-texas","tag-womens-mental-health","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\/54570","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=54570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/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=54570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}