{"id":56536,"date":"2025-04-05T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56536"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:16:16","slug":"open-thread-april-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 5 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meidasplus.com\/p\/governor-newsom-exclusive-meidastouch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meidas Touch<\/a> Substack posted a (just over 20 minute) video of a conversation between Ben Meiselas and Gavin Newsom. If you have raised your eyebrows over a few remarks he&#8217;s made or things he&#8217;s done lately, this might be a good place to come for clarification (though you may still not agree). I didn&#8217;t find a transcript, but there is a text summary and a large load of comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2025\/04\/01\/proxy-voting-us-house-clears-major-hurdle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a> (although just about everyone has the story) provides evidence that bipartisanship may be on its last legs and gasping for breath, it&#8217;s not dead yet. And if it&#8217;s saved, it may well be women who save it.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219969431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground<\/a> (originally from the Atlantic) has been around for a couple of months. It doesn&#8217;t appear to me to have aged at all, so I&#8217;m putting it out now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220204533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This from DU<\/a>, on the other hand, is new. It puts us, and particularly our government, to shame.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XV9RdsU1WY4?si=ytFFE7mk-42U9naU\" 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\/2FYrhf4bV2U?si=2TJV1D6PdRHANCaz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Island-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"917\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Island-PM.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Island-PM-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Island-PM-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Island-PM-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Meidas Touch Substack posted a (just over 20 minute) video of a conversation between Ben Meiselas and Gavin Newsom. If you have raised your eyebrows over a few remarks he&#8217;s made or things he&#8217;s done lately, this might be a good place to come for clarification (though you may still not agree). I didn&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2025\/' 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":[4394,4355,4259,4999,4165,4531,6306,3865,5963,3831],"class_list":["post-56536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-analogy","tag-animals","tag-bipartisanship","tag-birds","tag-congress","tag-dogs","tag-lithuania","tag-middle-east","tag-tariffs","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\/56536","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=56536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56536\/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=56536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}