{"id":56581,"date":"2025-04-13T05:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56581"},"modified":"2025-04-12T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:57:13","slug":"open-thread-april-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/13\/open-thread-april-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 13 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the radio opera was Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” – or I should say “Die Zauberfl\u00f6te,” since it was the full opera and in German – except for a few interpolated jokes by Papageno. Such as, in the second act when he and Tamino were supposed to be refraining from food, drink, and even speech, he whistled and then sang a snippet from “New York, New York,” quoting “These little=town blues,” to be exact. I think Emanuel Schickaneder, who wrote the libretto and was the first to play Papageno, would have loved it (he was quite the card himself, and an improviser.) Today’s audience certainly did. Also yesterday, ProPublica<\/a> reported that both Leonard Leo and Charles Koch are among plaintiffs (both as parts of groups) suing the the Mango Monster over tariffs. Did you ever expect to be grateful to either of those two for anything – anything at all? I certainly didn’t. Also, I chose the video I did because virtually everyone is riffing on “Who Shot The Sheriff” – besides Don Caron, the Riccardis, Founders Sing and\u00a0 Patrick Fitzgerald have all covered it – with slightly different lyrics, but the same issue – tariffs.<\/p>\n

I’d call this very good news indeed. Colorado<\/a> appears to contain some very courageous people – and, more importantly, have at least some of them in positions where it is needed.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to post a single-source open thread, so I’ll need a third one. But this one even CPR<\/a> marks as good news – which they can’t do on political stories very well.<\/p>\n

Here’s some good climate news from Wonkette<\/a>. “Doktor Zoom” is the writer there who is most into climate change news, though all are to some degree.<\/p>\n