{"id":56551,"date":"2025-04-08T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56551"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:31:31","slug":"open-thread-april-8-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/08\/open-thread-april-8-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 8 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the ACLU was in court defending R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk. But they have enough staffers that one could sent out a blanket email asking individuals to urge Congress to vote NO on any bill targeting immigrants and\/or international students. In case you didn’t get it (I know many did besides me), here’s a link<\/a> to the petition. Also, don’t anyone tell the regime, but I suspect SSA is sending payments out a little early (just in case someone tells them not to send them; it can be too late; already done.) Second month in a row. Also, I was in email jail all day. The blood work was easy and quick, but it was the second day in a row I was away from home for a good chunk of time, and things just piled up.<\/p>\n

I’ll risk being accused of redundancy and share these four articles, one from Wonkette<\/a>, another from Robert Hubbell<\/a>, and the third from Colorado Public Radio<\/a>. Some euphoria is healthy, particularly when one still has more work to do.\u00a0 As we do.<\/p>\n

A little dose of reality from John Pavlovitz<\/a>. Not that we didn’t already know, but sometimes a pep talk is helpful.<\/p>\n

Belle blame game
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