{"id":54580,"date":"2024-06-04T06:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54580"},"modified":"2024-06-03T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T04:34:10","slug":"open-thread-june-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/open-thread-june-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 4 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Election Department advised me that my primary ballot is in the mail, and CPR advised me who the Deocratic candidates are for the 5th District. i&#8217;m not familiar with either name, so I&#8217;ll have to look both up. My district is the only one in the state which has never sent a Democrat to Congress, and we may well not get DNC support. However, two things are different this year. First, the District has gotten much smaller because of people moing in &#8211; which makes us more urban &#8211; and second, there is no incumbent. So it&#8217;s not impossible for us to have a chance. I&#8217;ll be voting this one with my head rather than my heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You may have seen this story<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen a couple of things on PFAs &#8211; but this is not just the story but the investigation details, straight from Pro Publica. When Pro Publica is shocked, the rest of us need to pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/a-tale-of-two-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich shows<\/a> how the hard realities of income equality can (and do, and that&#8217;s no accident) get lost in statistics. I think of the old adage &#8220;Figures don&#8217;t lie. But liars do figure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beau France<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/foJ3kkwsKbY?si=Wx01bb9guKbbd9qj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWdv9OI5SM0?si=7FX3q-coCcf48A70\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Jurors2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Jurors2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Jurors2-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Jurors2-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Election Department advised me that my primary ballot is in the mail, and CPR advised me who the Deocratic candidates are for the 5th District. i&#8217;m not familiar with either name, so I&#8217;ll have to look both up. My district is the only one in the state which has never sent a Democrat <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/open-thread-june-4-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,5825,4962,4115,5826,3805,3831],"class_list":["post-54580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-france","tag-income-inequality","tag-justice","tag-pfas","tag-ukraine","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\/54580","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=54580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/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=54580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}