{"id":54713,"date":"2024-06-26T05:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54713"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:57:51","slug":"open-thread-june-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/open-thread-june-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 26 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, having been up the previous night well into the morning, I slept late. I did manage to get up soon enough to call my doctor&#8217;s ofice about an appoinrment, but I still had to leave a message. But not that i can drive again, I need to get there and get labs so I can get a prescription straight. They&#8217;ll call back.\u00a0 Also, Andy Borowitz came up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/biden-to-wear-shark-costume-at-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this idea<\/a>.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-one-gop-31-year-old-is-leading-the-biden-clip-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we know who is doing this<\/a>, I suppose the next step is a cease and desist order, and then a big money lawsuuit. At least I hope so. This dude must be stopped (and not rreplaced.)<\/p>\n<p>I always thought Crooks and Liars was progressive &#8211; but apparently someone thinks they are not progressive enough, so they are &#8220;curating&#8221; some articles now, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/06\/one-obscure-supreme-court-case-actually\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as this one<\/a>. Both Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich weigh in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wu-T8XRHlYo?si=b6Txm584FyaX8TSv\" 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\/4kcBOxNgZ14?si=U80nI-EM17vQg-1c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/inflatin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/inflatin.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/inflatin-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/inflatin-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, having been up the previous night well into the morning, I slept late. I did manage to get up soon enough to call my doctor&#8217;s ofice about an appoinrment, but I still had to leave a message. But not that i can drive again, I need to get there and get labs so I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/open-thread-june-26-2024\/' 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":[4355,3708,4111,3946,5855,4453,3760,4028,3811,3792,4317],"class_list":["post-54713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-borowitz","tag-cats","tag-fake-news","tag-faked-videos","tag-inflation","tag-joe-biden","tag-native-americans","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-the-economy","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\/54713","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=54713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54713\/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=54713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}