{"id":54786,"date":"2024-07-10T05:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54786"},"modified":"2024-07-09T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:04:58","slug":"open-thread-july-10-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/10\/open-thread-july-10-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 10 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Common Cause sharing its accomplishments at the state level. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find anything a their website with the same information. They cite four states &#8211; Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Connecticut (I&#8217;m far less worried about New Mexico and Connecticut than about the other two.) Also, Colorado now has avian flu in Weld County (dairy ranching country, nowhere near me) and one case of bubonic plague in Pueblo County (I&#8217;m 15 miles from the county line, but do go there to visit Virgil.) With only the one case and the experts looking into it, I&#8217;m not worried about it now, but I will be watching for updates. And then, i learned Steve Schmodt, after losing two family dogs within months of each other, has a new puppy, a 3 pound Havanese named Mabel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219114428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasmine Crockett<\/a> is someone we need more of. Smart &#8211; but not only smart, but also knowledgable and realistic. I hope Democrats are listening.<\/p>\n<p>Marcie Jones is fairly new at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/project-2025-is-bad-but-trumps-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a>, but she has the style down. Here she points out that, as bad as Project 2025 is, Trump&#8217;s personal plans may be even worse<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6bAfrnq2G0?si=jhHqFjAgZhXoAAX9\" 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\/-IaQ4RUn87Q?si=_cXDxuLtgxNV1o5Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54767\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alleycat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alleycat.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alleycat-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alleycat-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Morals of an Alley Cat&#8221;, Tfrump, political cartoon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Common Cause sharing its accomplishments at the state level. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find anything a their website with the same information. They cite four states &#8211; Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Connecticut (I&#8217;m far less worried about New Mexico and Connecticut than about the other two.) Also, Colorado now <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/10\/open-thread-july-10-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,4111,5869,3760,5846,3910,4276],"class_list":["post-54786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-common-cause","tag-joe-biden","tag-project-2025","tag-public-health","tag-texas","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\/54786","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=54786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786\/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=54786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}