{"id":56089,"date":"2025-01-30T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56089"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:53:29","slug":"open-thread-january-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/open-thread-january-31-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 30 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I learned from Talking Points Memo’s “Morning Memo” that, apparently, there was a midair plane\/helicopter crash over the Potomac River the night before. First responders were not expecting there to be any survivors. I’m not up to it, but someone really should start a list of all the deaths traceable to actions of the Orange Oligarch’s second administration. I’m sure there were more resulting from the first term than we ever heard of, since the only ones that were catalogued were the ones from CoViD. I’ve linked to that Memo<\/a>, not because it has the last word on the crash, but because there is a whole lot more in it. In any case, today is the first day of Black History Month. I am going to be using as much Black History as I can – and including prsent day articles throwing light on the Black experience. Bit if you are interested in diving deeper, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a> (NMAAHC) has you covered. If The Emperor doesn’t abolish it.<\/p>\n

As fast as things change under an administration which has no idea what it is doing other than robbing the poor to give to the rich, this from Wonkette<\/a> may already be out of date. I personally read the Colombian Tariffs news only a couple of hours before reading this.<\/p>\n

This by Robert Reich<\/a> is an analysis, not a news piece. So it isn’t now dated and isn’t likely to become dated any time soon. The problem now is how to get this analysis to people who need to be aware of it … and how to get those people to grasp its truth. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n