{"id":54819,"date":"2024-07-16T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54819"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:42:34","slug":"open-thread-july-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/16\/open-thread-july-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 16 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Trump** announced the selection of J.D. Vance for his Vice President. I’m not sure why people are losing their minds about it. Anyone Trump** selected would have been equally awful, and this selection at least may open a Senate seat in Ohio and give Tim Ryan a second chance {although I admit it does make me want to change my initials). There wasn’t much in my inbox about the Trump** shooting. One petiton asking Republicans who have condemned it to now condemc all political violence. I signed it – but good luck with that. The second half of Heather Cox Richardson’s talk<\/a> with Secretary of State Blinken has been posted. As I type I haven’t watched it, but by the time you see it, I will have done so. And, apparently, RFKJ is getting Secret Service protection – that, to me, is the worst news – or at least tied with the news that Loose Cannon dismissed the documents case. At least, the factor which pushed the SS to decide this was not a jump in the polls – it was the shooting at Trump**’s rally.<\/p>\n

I did get an email from “Oil Change International,” a climate change fighting organization. Their website is here<\/a>. And here is a source<\/a> to check how your state is dealing with the issue of “certified gas.” Looking at the map of Colorado, I note that all the emissions events they map occurred in the vicinity of Denver. It’s not clear to me whether Denver (along with its environs) is particularly bad at this, or if it’s just that the population is so much denser there, and so is the usage, that the emissions events in that area are more obvious, more measurable.<\/p>\n

This may not the biggest story – but it does, as Ursula says<\/a>, make a big difference. So I’m posting it in case you missed it. See what you think.<\/p>\n