{"id":56382,"date":"2025-03-11T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56382"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:40:29","slug":"open-thread-march-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/11\/open-thread-march-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 11 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I hinted Sunday would happen, I slept very late. But I did have time to discover that at least some merchants will allow a customer to change their email address, even if it is also the user name, without changing anything else in the account. Of course they want a second form of verification, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be by text, it can be by email or landline. I didn&#8217;t het many changed, but I am quite relieved. And I managed to put this together. I also found a couple of Belle eposide worth sharing, and as I almost always do, looked t=at the end for other videos wich might be ineresting. I was drawn to a speech by David Brooks. I&#8217;ve not been a fan of Brooks, but he started with acceptinf responsibility for what he and others of his ilk did to America, and demonstrated that he can laugh at imself, so I stayed. Toward the end, he parapgrased T. S. Eliot in a quote which spoke to me so loudly, I had to look it up, and will eventually put it into a meme. But not today.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com<br \/>\nHarry Litman is a contributor &#8211; I think a founding contributor &#8211; to The Contrarian, but hw he has also kept his own Substack, &#8220;Talking Feds.&#8221; The attorney who joined Meidas Touch with his &#8220;Legal AF&#8221; is Michael Popok. And then there&#8217;s Joyce Vance (&#8220;Civil Discourse.&#8221;) All three are former DOJ prosecutors, and very familiar with how it is supposed to work. (I&#8217;m not intending to diss Glenn Kirschmer &#8220;Justice Matters&#8221; nor Andrew Weissman &#8220;Andrew Weissman&#8221; in the same categories.) In this article he has written a thought experiment rather than news. I won&#8217;t say you can find news anywhere, because you can&#8217;t, but you do have a lot of resources where you can find actual news. A thought experiment is harder to come by (although it may bee no less depressing.)<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/johnpavlovitz.substack.com\/p\/the-other-state-of-the-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pavlovitz,<\/a> who wants us to hang on to hope without falling into complacency, challenging as that may be, and is always worthy of attention.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2iOVQnJO04?si=8fnUh72aXlqqPi3Z\" 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\/TUK46BP2CXg?si=VJeHz6uCBWfjFGSK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chewie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chewie.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chewie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chewie-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I hinted Sunday would happen, I slept very late. But I did have time to discover that at least some merchants will allow a customer to change their email address, even if it is also the user name, without changing anything else in the account. Of course they want a second form of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/11\/open-thread-march-11-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4355,5287,4111,4391,4585,3811],"class_list":["post-56382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-betrayal","tag-cats","tag-danger","tag-hope","tag-personal","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\/56382","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=56382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}