{"id":56627,"date":"2025-04-21T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56627"},"modified":"2025-04-20T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:52:34","slug":"open-thread-april-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/open-thread-april-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 21 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. More &#8220;two double run&#8221; hands than I&#8217;ve ever seen in a sitting, but also more zero hands. I was the only visitor, and Virg was sorry for people who weren&#8217;t getting a visit. I pointed out that those people might have kids or grandkids that their family needed to spend the day with, and also that Sunday is not the only visiting day and they might have been visited on Friday or Saturday, which seemed to relieve him. It is true that most people in prisons in the US (and probably elsewhere) don&#8217;t get visited at all. I&#8217;m more tired than usual; it&#8217;s been a rough week for me. So instead of looking for an article explaining &#8220;NORRA&#8221; (which really should be spelled &#8220;NoRRA,&#8221; but we all know Republicans can&#8217;t spell &#8211; and have no feel for language), but instead I&#8217;ll recommend you do a search on it. It&#8217;s pretty much a declaration of open war on the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/untangling-the-deportation-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> writes on the mass deportation cases we have seen (and can expect to see more of.) She makes it I think as clear as anyone possibly could.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132270244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132270244<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132270260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/132270260<\/a><br \/>\nHere are two videos, both posted at Democratic Underground which have information &#8211; information that I wish I didn&#8217;t need to know, but since I so, I&#8217;d rather have it blunt. Both are embedded at DU so no ads for anyone who watches them there. But also no comments from YouTubers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqk8sRwKlAo?si=Pmhr_fsfhRmxwxs_\" 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\/eyn43rp6_JA?si=S3Y7vK4mD8-tvBOP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"859\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VV.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VV-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VV-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VV-768x671.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. More &#8220;two double run&#8221; hands than I&#8217;ve ever seen in a sitting, but also more zero hands. I was the only visitor, and Virg was sorry for people who weren&#8217;t getting a visit. I pointed out that those people might have kids or grandkids that their family <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/open-thread-april-21-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,6344,6346,6345,6343,6342,3811,4317],"class_list":["post-56627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-democratic-messaging","tag-deportations","tag-deporting-citizens","tag-layoffs","tag-military-parades","tag-personal","tag-the-economy","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\/56627","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=56627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627\/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=56627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}