{"id":56694,"date":"2025-05-01T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56694"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T00:37:51","slug":"open-thread-may-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/01\/open-thread-may-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Colorado Public Radio news was unusually consequential. Stories about a father who protested Saturday because his son has Bloom Syndrome and who doesn&#8217;t want the regime defunding medical research, another about Venezuelan immigrants in Colorado and our court case to keep them, another about a teen girl abducted from Missouri getting found in Fort Collins and more. I&#8217;m saving the one about the book banning lawsuit for Sunday because our side had a victory (which will be appealed.) The whole newsletter was kind of overwhelming. Especially on a day when my entire inbox was much like that &#8211; to the point where I feel the need to post three articles &#8211; and it easily could have been six.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt whether there is any one reading here &#8211; or anyone who has ever read her &#8211; who needs to be told the premise of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-100-days-destroy-america_n_68113057e4b0d4c3d8e32149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost<\/a> article. Nor is it news to us. We&#8217;ve been saying it ourselves for years. But it should be somewhat satisfying &#8211; it is to me &#8211; to see it being said out loud, in print, by a major messenger. Anything anyone can do to spread it cannot possibly hurt and might help.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/trump-dares-scotus-to-do-something\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> was also discussed (including a couple of clips) by Mary Trump in her nightly video. The host &#8211; I think she said Terry Moran &#8211; kept his cool marvelously. I don&#8217;t know that I could have- this type of exchange takes me back to my childhood when my grandmother used to use this defense &#8211; deny, deny, deny &#8211; over things as simple as doing th family ironing. It made me cfazy then and it still does.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for an elected Democrat who is a real fighter, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-28-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> has the one for you (and me.) You may have heard that J. B, Pritzer (Gov IL) gave a rousing speech, but you may not have seen this many direct quotes from it, and they are needed to give you the real flavor of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UY3od-zwlps?si=dyE0-X7OMZBmREsN\" 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\/ejKUCUuN_as?si=Px5D9AGnIE-pKKrJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/911.jpg 483w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/911-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/911-150x140.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Colorado Public Radio news was unusually consequential. 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