{"id":56234,"date":"2025-02-22T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56234"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:59:52","slug":"open-thread-february-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/22\/open-thread-february-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Conversation newsletter included an article titled &#8220;Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease and harm crops.&#8221; I suppose it&#8217;s worth a try. But it certainly hasn&#8217;t worked on humans. Also, I cut my hair. It&#8217;s not a professional job, but it will keep it out of my eyes for a while. After period of a couple of months last spring when it was shedding so fast it was starting to thin, then that stopped, and now its as thick as ever. Maybe even in a couple of places a little thicker. And definitely growing as fast as ever.<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen this story elsewhere. Of my sources, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/jocelynn-rojo-carranza-is-a-casualty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> had the most thorough coverage. But I can&#8217;t read everything, I may have missed a better one.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know, two from the same source the same day. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/yes-democrats-we-all-fully-understand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> article is not so much news as it is an op-ed &#8211; an op-ed which is really singing my song. If it is singing yours too, I don&#8217;t think Robin would mind if you printed a copy and mailed it to your federal legislators &#8211; who are actually the &#8220;Democrats&#8221; of the title. She doesn&#8217;t mean us.<\/p>\n<p>As if we didn&#8217;t have enough injustice &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-study-mass-surveillance-for-social-control-and-we-see-trump-laying-the-groundwork-to-contain-people-of-color-and-immigrants-221073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a> suggests it may get far, far worse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gp1we_MxNJw?si=rHxjQL1zsDWEuL8A\" 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\/T1JN3H6k1Rk?si=cEtniGH_HslZA3hP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/immigrant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/immigrant.jpg 928w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/immigrant-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/immigrant-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/immigrant-768x367.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Conversation newsletter included an article titled &#8220;Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease and harm crops.&#8221; I suppose it&#8217;s worth a try. But it certainly hasn&#8217;t worked on humans. Also, I cut my hair. It&#8217;s not a professional job, but it will keep it out of my eyes for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/22\/open-thread-february-22-2025\/' 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":[4355,6244,6243,3788,4531,4069,6242,3811],"class_list":["post-56234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-child-suicide","tag-containment","tag-democrats","tag-dogs","tag-immigration","tag-investment","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\/56234","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=56234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/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=56234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}