{"id":55117,"date":"2024-09-04T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55117"},"modified":"2024-09-03T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T04:19:00","slug":"open-thread-september-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/open-thread-september-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 4 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Joyce Vance<\/a> decided that her (paywalled) post from last Friday was “so timely and so important that I\u2019ve taken it out from behind the paywall” and republished it here. I do realize not everyone knows someone in high school, or a parent with a child in high school, or a grandparent. But lots of people do, and even if one doesn’t – I don’t – it’s still good information to have, and good to know that people are working on it. When more people vote, we win.<\/p>\n

Well, this was certainly not on my bingo car<\/a>d. But I like it. A lot. I really hope there is a Democrat somewhere who is just goofy enough to run with it who has, or can get, the funding for it. It might not even need to be a very large run. Just one, with the right publicity, would do teh trick.<\/p>\n

Robert Reich<\/a> takes on mergers – and specifically the proposed Kroger-Albertson’s merger. I expect you all already knew this was a terrible idea. But possibly not all the details of just how terrible an idea it is.<\/p>\n