{"id":54671,"date":"2024-06-17T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54671"},"modified":"2024-06-16T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:38:04","slug":"open-thread-june-17-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/17\/open-thread-june-17-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 17 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I managed to remember it was Father&#8217;s Day in time to wish Virgil a happy one. The prison dog&#8217;s handler brought him out to say happy Father&#8217;s Day to all the visitors. And of course we played cribbage. Two weeks ago the cards were seriusly hot &#8211; we were seeing scores up as high as 24. Yesterday not so much. The highest score all afternoon was 16, and there were only 3 hands all afternoon which achieved that score. But who cares &#8211; we were having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get too giddy over the Supremes approving mifeprestone (for now), we need to look deeper. <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/global-statesman-vs-convicted-criminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Hubell does<\/a>. There are several topics here, but each has its own large type headline, so it&#8217;s not hard to find. And some of the other topics are pretty interesting also.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it took me a while <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/the-gops-whitewashing-of-jan-6-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to get this up<\/a>. But I try to minimize bad news over a weekend. At least there are influential people who see right through this and are doing their best to spread reality. Unfortunately, the media is not among them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aLpZ5URjZEc?si=if8oNLvLAVrkdXzE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gXB_lMYHQ8M?si=JSR1XZJYc8BCqOvg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ism.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I managed to remember it was Father&#8217;s Day in time to wish Virgil a happy one. The prison dog&#8217;s handler brought him out to say happy Father&#8217;s Day to all the visitors. And of course we played cribbage. Two weeks ago the cards were seriusly hot &#8211; we were seeing scores up as high <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/17\/open-thread-june-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":[4355,4383,4111,4531,3760,3811,3972,5842,3805,4395,3831],"class_list":["post-54671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-capitol-insurrection","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-joe-biden","tag-personal","tag-scotus","tag-trumpism","tag-ukraine","tag-womens-health","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\/54671","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=54671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54671\/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=54671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}