{"id":55185,"date":"2024-09-17T06:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55185"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:06:18","slug":"open-thread-september-17-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/17\/open-thread-september-17-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 17 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was still tidying up. I have been known to make the same mstake twice, but hopefully not in a two-day period, so this should be on time. Also, the New Mexico Political Report<\/a> announced a week starting today of articles discussing exactly what impact Project 2025 would have in New Mexico specifically. I realize that probably none of us live in New Mexico, but even if your state has zip in common with it, seeing it applied to a particular state could get us thinking about how it would apply to our own. I’m providing a link to the introduction, which has more details. While there , I went to the home page by clicking on the logo in the upper left, and saw two stories already on how Project 2025 will affect the climate in New Mexico. The New Mexico Political Report is (or used to be and I hope still is) a creative commons site, which means that as long as you follow their rules, you can repost complete articles and not violate copyright. And then there’s this (watch the embed here<\/a> – don’t go to YouTube – it is censoring VoteVets<\/p>\n

TomCat referred to the Reichstag fire often, as I’m sure everyone recalls. The first “assissination attempt” may have been actually an intended attempt, but I still do not believe it as a bullet which caused his ear to bleed (my vote goes to shattered glass “shrapnel.”) But this really does look ridiculous<\/a> to anyone with a functioning brain. Not that that precludes it from being very dangerous, as Rober Reich<\/a> has also remarked.<\/p>\n

This is a report from the Project on Government Oversight<\/a> on what happens in one state – Texas – when the Census is not conducted to count every head. NOte that Texas deliberately conducted the 2020 Census so as to undercount its population. WEll, it cost them a lot of money to do that. Not that they care about that. Red states are states which turn down Federal money even if the count is correct.<\/p>\n

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