{"id":56830,"date":"2025-05-23T06:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56830"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:04:47","slug":"open-thread-may-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/23\/open-thread-may-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 23 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Faithful America that SCOTUS deadlocked on the OK charter school case so the lower court ruling that giving the charter school government dollars in unconstitutional will stand. For now. (I&#8217;m not sure whether this is the same case where there were four recusals so they didn&#8217;t have a quorum, or whether that was a different case. Sorry, I&#8217;m finding it difficult to keep track.)<\/p>\n<p>Jen Rubin of <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/the-spanish-historical-lesson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Contrarian<\/a> has been travelling in Europe, and is sharing some historical insight from there, specifically from Spain.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/where-did-trump-get-his-oval-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> may be relatively minor, compared to, say, the deaths that will result from gutting Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP. However it pisses me off (all racism does), and goes along with the next post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/criticalread.substack.com\/p\/mainstream-media-inches-closer-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Watch<\/a> has what might be good news if it only went far enough. I suppose it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oip4dbJ4RPE?si=AQn9upt0j3Ui9dhK\" 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\/gu4vYBnkgas?si=UEOm3mRdEft5tTDH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/base.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/base.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/base-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/base-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/base-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Faithful America that SCOTUS deadlocked on the OK charter school case so the lower court ruling that giving the charter school government dollars in unconstitutional will stand. 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