{"id":56471,"date":"2025-03-26T06:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56471"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:10:15","slug":"open-thread-march-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/open-thread-march-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 26 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/rise-fall-terrorgram-frontline-propublica-telegram-online-white-nationalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> released the results of an investigation they did into &#8220;Terrorgram.&#8221; They worked in cooperation with PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Frontline,&#8221; and if you watch it regularly, you saw this last night. if not, you can read about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/rise-fall-terrorgram-frontline-propublica-telegram-online-white-nationalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and or pick up links to YouTube, the PBS a[[, and Frontline&#8217;s website, and watch it at one of those. Only by knowing how these &#8211; people &#8211; operate can we hope to detect them and report them. Also yesterday, Louis DeJoy resigned &#8211; at the worst possible time. Just at the right moment for the Valencia Vlad-the-Impaler to appoint a lunatic who will buy and privatize the Postal Service. Is Philadelphia having earthquakes? Benjamin Franklin is probably finding that turning over is not enough, and taking up break dancing instead.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-4e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week Ahead<\/a>&#8221; is late. But she has put together a number of related ideas that are being mentioned, but mostly not together, and personalizing it from her own experience.<\/p>\n<p>Also late, and also from <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/contempt-b11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a>, a discussion of something Judge Boasberg might do (or, of course, might not, but he seems like someone who might.) Incidentally, if you see anyone refer to him as &#8220;Jeb&#8221; Boasberg, J.E.B. are his initials. There is precedent for the nickname.<\/p>\n<p>This is old from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/bet-you-didnt-have-trees-are-dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> also. But it is so surreal that I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rncPn_j7EIk?si=OZKh9yLy10JXeL3-\" 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\/c9jJEpl0MIA?si=zLo9bbTHbwptbC1A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/March-Science_15_Protons_Morons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/March-Science_15_Protons_Morons.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/March-Science_15_Protons_Morons-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/March-Science_15_Protons_Morons-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, ProPublica released the results of an investigation they did into &#8220;Terrorgram.&#8221; They worked in cooperation with PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Frontline,&#8221; and if you watch it regularly, you saw this last night. if not, you can read about it here, and or pick up links to YouTube, the PBS a[[, and Frontline&#8217;s website, and watch it at <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/open-thread-march-26-2025\/' 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":[4355,5788,5532,4531,5825,3721,6228,6289,3803],"class_list":["post-56471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-contempt-of-court","tag-dei","tag-dogs","tag-france","tag-gop-lies","tag-joyce-vance","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-terrorism","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\/56471","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=56471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56471\/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=56471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}