{"id":56787,"date":"2025-05-15T05:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56787"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:56:05","slug":"open-thread-may-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/15\/open-thread-may-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 15 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my doctor&#8217;s visit went smoothly. We made a couple of minor med changes, and she wants to see me again in a couple of months with new blood work just before it. I can go ahead and get revaccinated for shingles and TPD but that has to be done at a pharmacy for Medicare to cover it. Well, I can do that. Otherwise, we are still feeling our way so I won&#8217;t go into detail. (And being brief because it took up time.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen or heard <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/john-roberts-says-the-rule-of-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> being sarcastic before. She&#8217;s very good at it. I&#8217;d like to see more if it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second in a series from <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/how-courts-can-get-trump-to-obey-cb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Contrarian<\/a> on how courts can hold the Kumquat Kakistocrat accountable. Because it&#8217;s anything but easy. This article discusses Criminal Contempt, how it works, what can go wrong, what to do if it starts to go wrong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmgDp7b-pKk?si=QeLDI42UHXgSUmaF\" 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\/VD8RCiicEQI?si=bxVuIk3ddKCG-ay6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surgery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surgery.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surgery-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surgery-150x44.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surgery-768x227.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my doctor&#8217;s visit went smoothly. We made a couple of minor med changes, and she wants to see me again in a couple of months with new blood work just before it. I can go ahead and get revaccinated for shingles and TPD but that has to be done at a pharmacy for Medicare <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/15\/open-thread-may-15-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,6073,6398,3811,5574,5858],"class_list":["post-56787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-efficiency","tag-living-with-autocracy","tag-personal","tag-rule-of-law","tag-the-courts","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\/56787","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=56787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56787\/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=56787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}