{"id":55734,"date":"2024-12-13T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55734"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:48:31","slug":"open-thread-december-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/open-thread-december-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 13 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the few Christmas cards I still mail ready to go, and am mailing them today. Also, I learned Larry Krasner is running for reelection for DA in Philadelphia, and is requesting contribution. Larry was the first and is still the most prominent progressive DA in the country, which means Democrats everywhere are looking to him, and Republicans everywhere are gunning for him. If there&#8217;s any room on your Christmas list, you might want to consider him. And, yes, today is Friday the 13th. Many people say TGIF every Friday, and the number 13 should have only a positive significance for the nation founded by 13 colonies which became 13 states (and to this day we keep 13 stripes in our flag to remember that.)<\/p>\n<p>Dan Froomkin at <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalread.substack.com\/p\/the-commercial-news-industry-is-incapable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Watch<\/a> points out the obvious &#8211; we are all furious with mainstream media because they don&#8217;t do their job &#8211; but actually it has become a job whixh is impossible to do. And in the long run, it&#8217;s we who need to keep working to change the conditions. (And, yes, it feels impossible.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t cite <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/12\/dont-kid-yourself-powers-be-are-all-shook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars<\/a> often any more, because they have becone difficult to read unless you pay them. Bur this article, particularly the Bluesky at the end, is worth it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDhQNNTDHBQ?si=iwvvSJQ8txyeG0vS\" 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\/V_QJW_uLPks?si=i6rAnvb1skUIV_Ox\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i-play-one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i-play-one.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i-play-one-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i-play-one-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the few Christmas cards I still mail ready to go, and am mailing them today. Also, I learned Larry Krasner is running for reelection for DA in Philadelphia, and is requesting contribution. Larry was the first and is still the most prominent progressive DA in the country, which means Democrats everywhere are <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/open-thread-december-13-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,5092,5077,6091,5902,6089,6090],"class_list":["post-55734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-cosplay","tag-espionage","tag-free-press","tag-main-stream-media","tag-phones","tag-uncertainty","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\/55734","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=55734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55734\/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=55734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}