{"id":56576,"date":"2025-04-12T06:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56576"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:09:15","slug":"open-thread-april-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/12\/open-thread-april-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 12 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1945, we lost President Roosevelt. But, in spite of having to preside over a World War (which our side won, and I&#8217;m not sure we could have done so without him), he pushed for and got legislation which set us up for national prosperity which lasted 80 years. And which it has taken less than three months to trash.<\/p>\n<p>I think I accidentally deleted the Open Thread for Friday.\u00a0 And I have no backup.\u00a0 So sorry.\u00a0 If you had commented, that will also be gone.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act_n_67f56408e4b046bb946e0242<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court has made several decisions regarding immigration and deportation. including good, bad, and indifferent. The net effect is not all that good. HuffPost explains.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/michelle-obama-has-an-answer-for-those-who-think-her-ma-1851775610<br \/>\nIf you are not on social media, and don&#8217;t follow black news outlets, you may not even be aware of the rumors. I was aware of them and was also pretty sure they were BS. But then, I have lived through a lot of the same kinds of interactions she has, so I know the territory. The little video in the middle is pretty short and really part of the article so I recommend not skipping it (and yes, the fact that I watched it does mean that The Root has stopped disappearing mid-read for me. Yay!)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220226632<br \/>\nBe sure to at least scan the comments on the Democratic Underground post. I checked the link to Snopes, but feel free &#8211; it is a good solid link. Yes, this is what ICE is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Belle Debit Card<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-WlSsKiadE?si=JlSWgwwVifGjgCpj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDvkItfHMh0?si=mxmCWYQMz7B_4e0Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/greenland.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1945, we lost President Roosevelt. But, in spite of having to preside over a World War (which our side won, and I&#8217;m not sure we could have done so without him), he pushed for and got legislation which set us up for national prosperity which lasted 80 years. And which it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/12\/open-thread-april-12-2025\/' 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":[6319,4355,6317,4111,4467,6316,6151,3866,4077,4069,3972,4317,6318],"class_list":["post-56576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-alien-enemies-act","tag-animals","tag-byrd-rule","tag-cats","tag-children","tag-empire","tag-greenland","tag-history","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-scotus","tag-the-economy","tag-the-obamas","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\/56576","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=56576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576\/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=56576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}