{"id":56791,"date":"2025-05-16T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56791"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:45:00","slug":"open-thread-may-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/16\/open-thread-may-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 16 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a bit more paperwork to do for the prison. It took longer than I wished &#8211; but it was a bit easier than the first two because instead of having to go the the website ands turn a pdf into a jpg so I could type into it, the prison emailed me a blank word document. Obviously I have saved copies of everything. I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s the last one.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember subscribing to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/05\/14\/yunseo-chung-ice-search-warrant-columbia-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> &#8211; I presume it happened because I signed something- but I have not seen this lede story anywhere else, and I don&#8217;t think it should be ignored, so I&#8217;m sharing. Feel free to browse down, and if you go to another page, browse down it also. They have a lot of information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/trumps-palace-in-sky-is-a-clear-constitutional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Litman<\/a> at Talking Feds on a story that is definitely not getting ignored &#8211; so much is being discussed I thought I&#8217;d bring an actual Constitutional lawyer to address it.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to listen to another lawyer, here&#8217;s a\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meidasplus.com\/p\/popok-live-on-trump-confessions-supreme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Popok<\/a> (Legal AF, Meidas Touch) a variety of legal issues. You can also see it on YouTube, but if, like me, you aren&#8217;t paying YouTube, this is a way to skip the ads, even if you aren&#8217;t paying Meidas either..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNrOv9S1BIU?si=WLt9BzU2Zsyk-ntQ\" 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\/d67UTsNdzE8?si=wd2cncP1uRYAwvQM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/B4-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/B4-after.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/B4-after-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/B4-after-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/B4-after-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a bit more paperwork to do for the prison. It took longer than I wished &#8211; but it was a bit easier than the first two because instead of having to go the the website ands turn a pdf into a jpg so I could type into it, the prison emailed me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/16\/open-thread-may-16-2025\/' 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":[6395,4355,6400,4111,3892,3725,4077,6399,3811,5574,3972],"class_list":["post-56791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-abuses-of-power","tag-animals","tag-bribes","tag-cats","tag-emoluments","tag-holiday","tag-ice","tag-magats","tag-personal","tag-rule-of-law","tag-scotus","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\/56791","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=56791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56791\/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=56791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}