{"id":56502,"date":"2025-03-31T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56502"},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T01:39:18","slug":"open-thread-march-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/open-thread-march-31-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 31 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by to help get my trash and recyclables out for Thursday pickup. It had been a while, so I had a fair amount. I told her about that mail piece I had received from &#8220;Pure Talk,&#8221; and she could only shake her head. Otherwise, not a lot happening here. Which is a pretty good thing. I don&#8217;t need any more excitement than I get from the news (and that mostly negative.) I did manage to at least skim Joyce Vance&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-c95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221;<\/a> before the week actually started, for a change<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/please-mr-trump-keep-pete-hegseth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> has a point. I&#8217;d be even more worried than I am if DoD were headed by someone with Hegseth&#8217;s ideas and principles but more competent. And if he&#8217;s getting negative attention from MAGA &#8211; well, that&#8217;s just a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>I missed seeing this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/trump-continues-war-on-workers-kills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette <\/a>story elsewhere. Not that it contains any surprises, unless taking revenge he said he was going to take is close enough to telling the truth to be a surprise &#8211; that certainly could happen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-6-YAFMPco?si=2hD1HXoZYhwahpVt\" 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\/wcxjyNNi80g?si=sHyxb-3bsuD5t1vS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/foodnow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/foodnow.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/foodnow-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/foodnow-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by to help get my trash and recyclables out for Thursday pickup. It had been a while, so I had a fair amount. I told her about that mail piece I had received from &#8220;Pure Talk,&#8221; and she could only shake her head. Otherwise, not a lot happening here. Which is a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/open-thread-march-31-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,5481,5952,3746,6228,6296,3811,6237,6295],"class_list":["post-56502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-department-of-defense","tag-elon-musk","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-joyce-vance","tag-labor-unions","tag-personal","tag-soft-power","tag-working-people","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\/56502","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=56502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}