{"id":56129,"date":"2025-02-07T05:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56129"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:42:46","slug":"open-thread-february-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/07\/open-thread-february-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 7 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although I had wiped out all the emails from Monday and Tuesday on Wednesday, I still had some from Wednesday to get through. By the end of he day I was caught up on them. But to do that I had to do a mostly single-topic OT for today, and do it early. It&#8217;s a little different, but hopefully at least thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bonus video from Vote Vets. It&#8217;s nicely done, only a minute long, and includes excerpts from a speech by Alex Vindman.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xsX6t3cI2c?si=A5FjU1ubeXQUFd5P\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-elon-musk-federal-government-usaid_n_67a26f1ae4b042f60737c61a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a> is related. Both this and the video above are about what is going on with the USAID &#8211; not the best known Federal agency, but one of the most important to our national security (so of course the MAGAs want to destroy it, as do the billionaires who want to hand us over to Putin.)<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Public Radio didn&#8217;t even take the time to write this up themselves, but instead shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/denverite.com\/2025\/02\/05\/denver-immigration-raid-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denverite version<\/a>. It looks like Freedom Summer all over again (except for the weather &#8211; and in this particular demonstrations, less blood. But there were demonstrations in\u00a0 50 states, and I&#8217;m sure some of them made up for ours.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/92G8bQ00D54?si=LECMZA4KMJcvfygQ\" 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\/6jrZcb3XdzU?si=miDzXb43cArNDg37\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/reality2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/reality2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/reality2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/reality2-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although I had wiped out all the emails from Monday and Tuesday on Wednesday, I still had some from Wednesday to get through. By the end of he day I was caught up on them. But to do that I had to do a mostly single-topic OT for today, and do it early. It&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/07\/open-thread-february-7-2025\/' 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":[4532,4355,4111,6214,5088,4031,6213],"class_list":["post-56129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-alexander-vindman","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-demonstrations","tag-inspectors-general","tag-national-security","tag-usaid","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\/56129","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=56129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56129\/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=56129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}