{"id":54781,"date":"2024-07-09T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54781"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T00:32:24","slug":"open-thread-july-9-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/09\/open-thread-july-9-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 9 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Mary Trump now has some <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.marytrumpmedia.com\/products\/with-fear-for-democracy-i-vote-t-shirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merch<\/a>. Only one T-shirt at this point, but a good one.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not interested in that (or even if you are), you might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/Open Thread July 9 2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this from her<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s encouraging.\u00a0 Also, I baked another batch of muffins.<\/p>\n<p>Every week, Joyce Vance puts out a column called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-da7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week Ahead<\/a>.&#8221; It generally comes in so late on Sunday that I can&#8217;t put it up Monday, and this week was no exception. But I think it&#8217;s important to post anyway. After a holiday weekend, y&#8217;all may not be expecting an eventful week, but it may be. There are things going on with unpredictable outcomes to watch for. And besides that, it&#8217;s one heck of a pep talk.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219114109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an excellent idea<\/a>. Provided no one gets hurt trying it. Those (expletive deleted) are violent, and many are armed. (Of course, turning the tables on them may be so shocking that they could be immobilized.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/42q27igb3UM?si=zszlSg9P_mnVGafA\" 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\/_dqO5-plzqo?si=aSuKIVd7gn7RJJ7h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony-1024x842.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pony-768x632.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Mary Trump now has some merch. Only one T-shirt at this point, but a good one.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not interested in that (or even if you are), you might want to read this from her &#8211; it&#8217;s encouraging.\u00a0 Also, I baked another batch of muffins. Every week, Joyce Vance puts out <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/09\/open-thread-july-9-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,3762,4531,5868,4976,5175,5867],"class_list":["post-54781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-courts","tag-dogs","tag-legal-actions","tag-merch","tag-polling","tag-strategy","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\/54781","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=54781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54781\/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=54781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}