{"id":56442,"date":"2025-03-22T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56442"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:24:56","slug":"open-thread-march-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/open-thread-march-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I realized I hadn&#8217;t received a response to my email to reserve my visit to Virgil, so I looked up the phone number and called. They had not received the email, but made the reservation from my call. So I need to find what the bug is there and correct it. I guess I just didn&#8217;t have enough to do [sarcasm]. I also paid some bills and verified that I had already paid some others. And I set up a few days posts in advance &#8211; so if anything exciting happens over the weekend you&#8217;ll have to wait a bit to hear my take on it.<\/p>\n<p>A no-paywall link from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ye5Ln\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> on a story you may have heard about &#8211; the actress disappeared for two weeks by ICE &#8211; but here it&#8217;s told by her personally. Along with at least parts of stories from other women she encountered during her ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/making-good-trouble-on-april-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> from Thursday &#8211; but it&#8217;s still in plenty of time for anyone who wants to to get involved. So if anyone is looking for some good trouble, here&#8217;s one possibility.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7abD5VIBME?si=0zGaJbdSnezL1LXi\" 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\/TNJu0ymZFyg?si=PkGARZDWCNVYw477\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/in-Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/in-Canada.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/in-Canada-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/in-Canada-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/in-Canada-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I realized I hadn&#8217;t received a response to my email to reserve my visit to Virgil, so I looked up the phone number and called. They had not received the email, but made the reservation from my call. So I need to find what the bug is there and correct it. I guess I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/open-thread-march-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":[4355,4117,4111,6285,6284,4069,3811,6283],"class_list":["post-56442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-canada","tag-cats","tag-disappearances","tag-good-trouble","tag-immigration","tag-personal","tag-reinstatements","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\/56442","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=56442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442\/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=56442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}