{"id":55988,"date":"2025-01-22T06:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55988"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:12:06","slug":"open-thread-january-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/open-thread-january-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The 19th shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-symbolic-collar-2025-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vogue<\/a> article about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s collar for the inauguration (spoiler: it was a &#8220;strong statement.&#8221;) I don&#8217;t know whether she is on a Vogue cover, or will be, but it would be a lovely rebuke to Melania. You go, Vogue! Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/fauci-inoculated-against-virulent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F*News<\/a> did a summary of executive orders and other junk, which made me wish I could just read nothing but it (and The Contrarian) for the next four years. But I can&#8217;t do that. Finally, Wonkette referenced an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/snyder.substack.com\/p\/rejected-cabinet-nominees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Snyder<\/a> about Cabinet nominees who were rejected by the Senate in bygone days, when we still had a Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219917230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> will make the news &#8230; and I also wonder how many stories there are like it.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219919264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground<\/a> link is to a list of economic indicators and exactly where they were when Biden handed over to the Apricot Antichrist. Bookmark it, or copy to a word document or anything else which will also save the live links. It will be needed when the media starts parroting MAGA lies about what happens to it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Izm2FbOUHbU?si=GHkExUQAhwfxGp8p\" 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\/njYkyTAO9_c?si=gstUH55IOXOyfzlv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Farewell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Farewell.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Farewell-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Farewell-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Farewell-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The 19th shared a Vogue article about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s collar for the inauguration (spoiler: it was a &#8220;strong statement.&#8221;) I don&#8217;t know whether she is on a Vogue cover, or will be, but it would be a lovely rebuke to Melania. You go, Vogue! Also, The F*News did a summary of executive <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/open-thread-january-22-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,6176,6169,4787,4317,6067],"class_list":["post-55988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-non-citizens","tag-poetic-justice","tag-privatization","tag-the-economy","tag-the-transition","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\/55988","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=55988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}