{"id":55157,"date":"2024-09-11T05:48:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55157"},"modified":"2024-09-10T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:50:02","slug":"open-thread-september-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/open-thread-september-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 11 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I organized as much as I could to be free to watch the debate last night. As I typed this, I didn&#8217;t know whether the Harris campaign ad discussed by Belle had worked. I do now, though &#8211; not as I type, but as you read.<\/p>\n<p>I cancelled my paid subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/09\/16\/russias-espionage-war-in-the-arctic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a> (after I had to get a new water heater), but the email newsletter is free, so they didn&#8217;t cancel that. This is the first thing I have seen since which is important enough to make me read it. In case anyone is paywalled out of it, I did print it to a pdf. It&#8217;s about 46 and a half pages, but it&#8217;s still less than a megabyte, and my email will sent up to 2.5 megabytes per message, so I can send it to anyone who wants it.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought you couldn&#8217;t possibly deplore Elon Musk any more that you already do, comes this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/elon-musks-feud-with-brazilian-judge-is-much-more-than-a-personal-spat-its-about-national-sovereignty-freedom-of-speech-and-the-rule-of-law-238264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a>. He fully justifies my referring to hom as the Muskrat (apologies ao any actual muskrats who may be reading.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y98VmDJYp4w?si=rBn4c8gNGuONqzMw\" 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\/jpEonpvH-j0?si=bXqCOf_XGMXJe4ho\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/debate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/debate1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/debate1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/debate1-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I organized as much as I could to be free to watch the debate last night. As I typed this, I didn&#8217;t know whether the Harris campaign ad discussed by Belle had worked. I do now, though &#8211; not as I type, but as you read. I cancelled my paid subscription to The New <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/open-thread-september-11-2024\/' 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":[4355,5953,4553,4531,5952,5077,5951,5918,3838,3831],"class_list":["post-55157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-brazil","tag-campaign-2026","tag-dogs","tag-elon-musk","tag-espionage","tag-political-advertising","tag-presidential-debates","tag-russia","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\/55157","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=55157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55157\/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=55157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}