{"id":56395,"date":"2025-03-15T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56395"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T02:35:33","slug":"open-thread-march-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/open-thread-march-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 15 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I worked more on my email accounts &#8211; cleaning out the old, forwarding to the new to remind me to make the changes &#8211; and also took in a grocery order &#8211; and not a minute too soon. (But soon enough.) I am making progress, not that it feel like I am.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot in this <a href=\"http:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/tpmmorningmemo\/p\/trump-targets-higher-ed-in-pure-authoritarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>, and it doesn&#8217;t mince words.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to anyone, and certainly not to <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/judge-howell-calls-out-trumps-lies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Litman<\/a>, that Judge Beryl Howell will not stand for malarkey* in her court. (*malarkey &#8211; a word I&#8217;m using in honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day which is coming right up.) (Incidentally, did you ever expect to be familiar with the names of so many Federal Judges not on the Supreme Court as you are right now?)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6Jy90ZcmHQ?si=-w3hlxZNP-tLAeSy\" 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\/vGvs_-dxEN4?si=j17aTwls3L2yTEyA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congress.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congress-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congress-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congress-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I worked more on my email accounts &#8211; cleaning out the old, forwarding to the new to remind me to make the changes &#8211; and also took in a grocery order &#8211; and not a minute too soon. (But soon enough.) I am making progress, not that it feel like I am. There&#8217;s a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/open-thread-march-15-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,4165,3915,4003,5203,3811,3831],"class_list":["post-56395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-congress","tag-education","tag-europe","tag-federal-courts","tag-personal","tag-world","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\/56395","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=56395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56395\/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=56395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}