{"id":56780,"date":"2025-05-14T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56780"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:58:12","slug":"open-thread-may-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/14\/open-thread-may-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 14 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have an appointment with my PCP in the afternoon. Hopefully tht won&#8217;t slow me down.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask me what it will take for Americans to wake up and wee what is happening. I don&#8217;t know. Robert Reich doesn&#8217;t know. John Pavlovitz doesn&#8217;t know. If any of us knew, we would have started doing it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/guess-were-nearing-the-suspend-habeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcie Jones at Wonkette<\/a> doesn&#8217;t know either. If only we did.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to know <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/05\/12\/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some people<\/a> have a sense of proportion. About time someone did.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t actually post the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doseofdemocracy.com\/maga-sycophant-turns-on-skeezy-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dose of Democracy&#8221;<\/a> daily news email, but this link has most of the information from Tuesday&#8217;s. One wonders how long Shapiro will stay mad at the Apricot Antichrist. At least it&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0nHWyPPz7w?si=MA-DSz4AHctL--Zv\" 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\/y2KwWIJkoWw?si=dpMU0rRP16rPIbUd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fault.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fault.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fault-300x243.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fault-150x122.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fault-768x623.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have an appointment with my PCP in the afternoon. Hopefully tht won&#8217;t slow me down. Don&#8217;t ask me what it will take for Americans to wake up and wee what is happening. I don&#8217;t know. Robert Reich doesn&#8217;t know. John Pavlovitz doesn&#8217;t know. If any of us knew, we would have started doing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/14\/open-thread-may-14-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,3760,6397,3811,4217,4048],"class_list":["post-56780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-joe-biden","tag-miscellaneous","tag-personal","tag-refugees","tag-veterans","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\/56780","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=56780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780\/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=56780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}