{"id":55910,"date":"2025-01-07T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55910"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:41:21","slug":"open-thread-january-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/07\/open-thread-january-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 7 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, reading the list of Medal of Freedom recipients, I thought &#8220;Boy, I&#8217;ll bet those people (I&#8217;m assuming three different people, but there&#8217;s no way to know) who donated those three Ralph Lauren handbags to the Association for Retarded Citizens so that I could buy them dirt cheap to use for knitting projects are sorry now.&#8221; I&#8217;m not letting them go.\u00a0 Also, yes, the cartoon is old, but I missed it the first time around, and with a little imaginary bleach and a change of numbers, it fits again.\u00a0 I hope everyone who experienced snow survived it and that there&#8217;ll be a little break in it for y&#8217;all<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/house-republican-priorities-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> would be funny if it weren&#8217;t going to harm so many of the nation&#8217;s most vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p>This report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> is massive, as it covers years of undercover activity investigating militias. 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