{"id":55687,"date":"2024-12-04T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55687"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:36:35","slug":"open-thread-december-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/open-thread-december-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 4 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Giving Tuesday), I had almost 200 emails before noon (and only 3 were from the previous day.) I am betting all or most of you had similar experiences, since we all are caring people, and if nothing else, we sign petitions for non-profits. In fact, probably many of you had many more. Today I&#8217;m expecting the exterminator to come on a follow=up visit (they come every three months, and I really appreciate that.) Tomorrow I may be able to get back to what passes for normal around here. I&#8217;d like that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/musks-dangerous-bullying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk&#8217;s bullying<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/kash-patel-is-a-blaring-alarm-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> morning newsletter, and I thought I&#8217;d squeeze it in before Patel is dumped or forced to drop out.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t always agree with every point <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/this-is-a-moment-to-think-and-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> makes &#8211; but oh boy, is he ever singing my song on Native Americans and our treaties with them. (And if you&#8217;d like more history, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/november-29-2024?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=20533&amp;post_id=152349611&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=r406r&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> has that.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Coch44bVNGU?si=gcGQKHZLaF3hMbNP\" 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\/BfOKpO7cCvs?si=Iae08HRC6svEVcps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/judgmt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/judgmt.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/judgmt-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/judgmt-113x150.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Giving Tuesday), I had almost 200 emails before noon (and only 3 were from the previous day.) I am betting all or most of you had similar experiences, since we all are caring people, and if nothing else, we sign petitions for non-profits. In fact, probably many of you had many more. Today I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/open-thread-december-4-2024\/' 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":[6074,4355,5403,4531,4586,3849,4028,3792],"class_list":["post-55687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-helping","tag-animals","tag-bullying","tag-dogs","tag-fbi","tag-mlk","tag-native-americans","tag-robert-reich","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\/55687","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=55687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55687\/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=55687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}