{"id":56181,"date":"2025-02-13T05:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56181"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:41:41","slug":"open-thread-february-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/open-thread-february-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 13 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, VoteVets sent me an email containing their nickname for Elon Musk: &#8220;Dork Vader.&#8221; Who says military people have no sense of humor? And I did manage to get through my emails, though I had to speed through a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is that, even if you already thought that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/to-err-is-homan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE<\/a> was nothing but a bunch of malicious bully Keystone Kops, you ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217; yet. But then, what else could anyone expect from this administration?<\/p>\n<p>Cutting federal funds for medical research is personal to all of us, since any of us could at any time be stricken with some disease or condition which is the subject of research, on which our very lives might depend. But it&#8217;s also personal to <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/cutting-cancer-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> in a different way. I&#8217;ll let her explain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3692b49iH6Q?si=SIR7HBBTwtIL48By\" 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\/XoWVQJoBHNI?si=Ahbo6Sd_T698vzpS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mt-prisons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mt-prisons.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mt-prisons-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mt-prisons-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mt-prisons-768x411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, VoteVets sent me an email containing their nickname for Elon Musk: &#8220;Dork Vader.&#8221; Who says military people have no sense of humor? And I did manage to get through my emails, though I had to speed through a lot of them. All I can say is that, even if you already thought that ICE <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/open-thread-february-13-2025\/' 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":[4509,4355,4111,6221,4077,4069,4097,6222,3910],"class_list":["post-56181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-farmers","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-medical-research","tag-public-health","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\/56181","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=56181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56181\/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=56181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}