{"id":55488,"date":"2024-11-05T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55488"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:42:42","slug":"open-thread-november-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/05\/open-thread-november-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 5 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Kamala Harris had appeared on Saturday Night Live&#8217;s cold open along with Maya Rudolph. (Yeah, even with the extra hour, I didn&#8217;t get through Sunday&#8217;s emails on Sunday.) Mitch, sweetie that he is, had sent me a link to the NYTimes article on it, which I did archive, but frankly I don&#8217;t much care what the NYTimes has to say about anything any more. So here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e6Funs6yyEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to the Cold Open on YouTube<\/a>. Also yesterday I learned that Quincy Jones died Sunday &#8211; and I might not have learned that without subscribibg to The Root&#8217;s free enail newsletter, so much has the election sucked the life out of all other news (although in the evening I did hear about it on CPR Classical.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/november-3-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richarddson<\/a> has just returned fro a thirteen month book tour, and is admittedly exhausted. But, while o tour, everywhere she went she was asked the same question &#8211; to wit, how she managed to maihtain hope in the face of &#8211; well, everything. this is her answer. I&#8217;m not adding a tissue alert &#8211; I needed one, but I think that&#8217;s at least in large part because I&#8217;m low on antidepressant just now &#8211; and I don&#8217;t see this history being taught in red states any time soon. But the history itself is filled with hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-75f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance&#8217;s &#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221;<\/a> (also from Sunday evening) may not be as radiantly hopeful as Cox Rixhardson, but it is full if information which should not be missed. What we don&#8217;t know about, we cannot defend against. And it&#8217;s not all bad. There&#8217;s some good news also. (And did you know that chickens can purr? The previous day&#8217;s column even had a short video with sound which proves it. I am speechless.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rfzLVZ4fncQ?si=k4dG75tUgpEnEmis\" 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\/86RNi48ad2s?si=xVnV8xl3s3ZiR6zn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dhel-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dhel-2.jpg 953w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dhel-2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dhel-2-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dhel-2-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Kamala Harris had appeared on Saturday Night Live&#8217;s cold open along with Maya Rudolph. (Yeah, even with the extra hour, I didn&#8217;t get through Sunday&#8217;s emails on Sunday.) Mitch, sweetie that he is, had sent me a link to the NYTimes article on it, which I did archive, but frankly I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/05\/open-thread-november-5-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4553,5714,4676,4531,3781,4247,4585,3718,3769,4395,4412,3719],"class_list":["post-55488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-chickens","tag-democracy","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-equality","tag-hope","tag-music","tag-snl","tag-womens-health","tag-womens-issues","tag-womens-rights","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\/55488","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=55488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}