{"id":56127,"date":"2025-02-06T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56127"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:07:37","slug":"open-thread-february-6-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/open-thread-february-6-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 6 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the results of my bone density test and was disappointed but not terrible surprised to learn I have osteoporosis. I have no symptoms, but I do have the early signs, such as loss of height. I&#8217;ve taken calcium religiously all of my adult life, which may have slowed it down some. I&#8217;m sure my new PCP and I can come up with something which will help. Off topic &#8211; the reason I had to so the blood draw at a place which was so hard for me to find was not that the place near me was booked up &#8211; it was because the place near me was closed for repairs. That lab expects to reopen well before the next blood draw I&#8217;m going to need in early April. (I already made the appointment for that one. Apparently hypo- and hyperthyroidism are related to osteoporosis. Who knew? Probably Nameless and possibly Dave, but anyone else would surprise me.)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/02\/black-history-month-staff-reflections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 19th<\/a> from Monday, but we have a whole month to reflect. And this is real stories from real people, which IMO is always refreshing even if not always victorious.<\/p>\n<p>The link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brennan Center<\/a> should work. After I copied it, I tried it and it worked for me. But since it looks like a blanket link to the site, I&#8217;ll mention thet the name of the srticle I had in mind is &#8220;Breaking the Law&#8221; and that it&#8217;s in the category &#8220;Checks &amp; Balances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hOgfjQ_XH4?si=AUnCduF_sTv1OErd\" 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\/anHnx8vpa5c?si=EZMro8t6UWnPXFg-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LatinMAGA-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LatinMAGA-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LatinMAGA-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LatinMAGA-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LatinMAGA.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the results of my bone density test and was disappointed but not terrible surprised to learn I have osteoporosis. I have no symptoms, but I do have the early signs, such as loss of height. I&#8217;ve taken calcium religiously all of my adult life, which may have slowed it down some. I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/open-thread-february-6-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4837,3723,4531,3711,4077,4069,3811],"class_list":["post-56127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-climate-change","tag-dogs","tag-gop-crimes","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-personal","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\/56127","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=56127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}