{"id":56173,"date":"2025-02-11T05:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56173"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:45:11","slug":"open-thread-february-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/11\/open-thread-february-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 11 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I started the day with only 80 emails (of course more same in, but gradually.) A lot were responses from petition recipients &#8211; including 5 from just one Senator (I expect my other one will catch up eventually.) There was also one good laugh in there &#8211; Andy Borowitz&#8217;s news that Yambo has declared himself the Principal Ballerina of the Kennedy Center, purging most existing ones and blaming DEI for so many being women. I got the total down to 36 pretty quickly, and that included a few from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Straight from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/this-badass-white-lady-that-just-joined-a-famous-black-1851758611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a>, a story from Black History which oddly is about a white woman.\u00a0 Weird, I know. But true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-e49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> goes over a lot of what is happening and bring us closer to Autocracy (or Leucandrocracy). She encourages us all to stay strong, and ends with a little quote I had not heard before, but which I like so much I have put into today&#8217;s cartoon. Kudos if you knew it. Double Kudos (or Kudoi, which is the plural) if you also knew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthjackson.org\/nuremberg-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who first said it<\/a>. In a separate email, she reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/the-democracy-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Democracy Index<\/a> has been launched. I figured it would take some time from the planning stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjPHcH4qYek?si=j6IOwKqb-CswakA_\" 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\/wKdjzGBB7ak?si=tg0E2Z4i8fUBHhS7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthjackson.org\/nuremberg-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Suicide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Suicide.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Suicide-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Suicide-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Suicide-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I started the day with only 80 emails (of course more same in, but gradually.) A lot were responses from petition recipients &#8211; including 5 from just one Senator (I expect my other one will catch up eventually.) There was also one good laugh in there &#8211; Andy Borowitz&#8217;s news that Yambo has declared <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/11\/open-thread-february-11-2025\/' 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":[4355,4837,4111,4845,3811,4358,6220,6219],"class_list":["post-56173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-cats","tag-litigation","tag-personal","tag-the-constitution","tag-this-week","tag-world-history","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\/56173","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=56173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56173\/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=56173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}