{"id":54633,"date":"2024-06-11T06:08:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54633"},"modified":"2024-06-10T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T01:25:21","slug":"open-thread-june-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/11\/open-thread-june-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 11 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I received an email fromTrinette that her son Zach is coming today to trim the yard, and another from my “frosted\u00a0 sister” in FLorida that all state employees there except for police and firefighters have had their unions dissolved by DeSanctimonious (my term, not hers – she said “the current administration) , and also oone from my exterminator that they are sending a technician for a visit tomorrow.\u00a0 I called them because they didn’t mention a time and I want to be sure they don’t come too early.<\/p>\n

This post by Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> is important – it’s not an anniversary of anything, but it shows how much we owe both to Theodore Roosevelt and to James Madison, and identifies and discusses some major figures who want to – and are planning to – take it all away.<\/p>\n

And Joyce Vance<\/a> explains why she is saying “The courts are on the ballot this year” – and by “the courst” she means the entire Federal court system, from the Supreme Court down. She also addresses Rip van Stinkle’s meeting with the probation officer (not special treatment) which will be over now. Care2 has a petition to the probation officer to recommend jail for him, and it’s not too late to sign it, since he or she will be allowed time to make and submit the report. I don’t know whether he or she will ever see it, but when I signed, I added the comment, “Do not make the same mistake Neville Chamberlain made in 1938. If you do, the whole nation will suffer for it, as England did then.”<\/p>\n