{"id":54831,"date":"2024-07-18T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54831"},"modified":"2024-07-17T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:37:33","slug":"open-thread-july-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/18\/open-thread-july-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 18 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the biggest news appeared to be that Joe Biden is adding Spureme Court reform to his platform. I expect you can watch, or read about, this development just about anywhere. How very welcome this is can probably be measured by how vitriolic Trump**s remarks about it in his social medium (I made that singular because he only has the one.) Of course, the formation of an agency by NATO is also pretty big. But I&#8217;ll let Beau talk about that.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/07\/16\/invasive-zebra-mussel-in-colorado-river-near-grand-junction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zebra mussels<\/a> in our waters. They are native to Russia, as are Siberian elms, another invasive species we have. Grump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/dont-jump-to-conclusions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> has some things to say &#8211; about the apparent attack on Trump** and reactions to it &#8211; on both sides.\u00a0 Normally, IMO, if something is balanced, it is by definition <strong>not<\/strong> fair, because both sides are <strong>not<\/strong> the same.\u00a0 But she shows it can be done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxLHl6upZMk?si=2MeH7BLpC64dyat7\" 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\/-pf9smmky90?si=j_q9bm57UYIr-9Kd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(jJst a snaoshot)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trudeau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trudeau.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trudeau-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trudeau-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the biggest news appeared to be that Joe Biden is adding Spureme Court reform to his platform. I expect you can watch, or read about, this development just about anywhere. How very welcome this is can probably be measured by how vitriolic Trump**s remarks about it in his social medium (I made that singular <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/18\/open-thread-july-18-2024\/' 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":[4355,4117,4379,4531,5877,3745,3838,3805,3831],"class_list":["post-54831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-canada","tag-civility","tag-dogs","tag-invasive-species","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","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\/54831","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=54831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54831\/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=54831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}