{"id":54944,"date":"2024-08-05T06:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54944"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T22:44:05","slug":"open-thread-august-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/05\/open-thread-august-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 5 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to the mailbox and picked up the note from Paul Whelan. The note I sent was dated December 15, 2022. He received it, or at least wrote a response May 8, 2023. The envelope has Russian stamps and postmarks with a postmark date of June 19, 2024. it was a lovely note. I had mentioned Virgil was incarcerated and he included &#8220;please do pass along my regards to your husband.&#8221; And just about then Virgil called, so I passed along his regards right away.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure this means the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219281313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Department<\/a> is also on the same page. I realize many feel this is way too late. But a nation cannot just desert an ally without warning &#8211; and particularly if there is a treaty, which under the Constitution is the law of the land. He has hated this from Day One. But he goes by the book because the country comes first.<\/p>\n<p>This was written Saturday, but I didn&#8217;t see it until Sunday. So Friday, August 2, was the date <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/back-in-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chutkan received the case back<\/a>. No, she isn&#8217;t wasting any time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzMlx2t_QXk?si=IN2JVFHPfQDk-l5c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dog<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-VLfMlti2w?si=0miEKzQd0j-3D3SU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lame.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lame-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lame-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I went to the mailbox and picked up the note from Paul Whelan. The note I sent was dated December 15, 2022. He received it, or at least wrote a response May 8, 2023. The envelope has Russian stamps and postmarks with a postmark date of June 19, 2024. it was a lovely note. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/05\/open-thread-august-5-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,3762,4531,3775,4268,3972,3831],"class_list":["post-54944","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-foreign-policy","tag-insurrection","tag-scotus","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\/54944","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=54944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54944\/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=54944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}