{"id":56835,"date":"2025-05-24T06:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56835"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:24:54","slug":"open-thread-may-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/open-thread-may-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 24 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was a news-heavy Friday &#8211; and with the MAGA habit of breaking crap on Friday afternoons and evenings, it may not even have been over when I posted. Anything I missed will have to wait until next week. I do sometimes need time for dealing with clutter. And I am sorry, but I will not cover the &#8220;crypto dinner.&#8221; It&#8217;s been covered enough.<\/p>\n<p>Trust <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/what-you-need-to-share-about-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> to take a document this big and make a cogent summary of it in terms that are easy to understand, And also to find and point out <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the big surprise<\/a>.\u00a0 (which we probably don&#8217;t need quite as much as low-information voters do, but I for one appreciate.)<\/p>\n<p>I could not pick just one of these articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/evening-roundup-may-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Contrarian<\/a> &#8211; so I&#8217;m posting the full list. Hopefully one or more will speak to y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/610plpnyOmQ?si=Ps8SGQHWwwuYh--L\" 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\/wmJEjA-btOw?si=f94U7DQopUzvN7Mg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/crypto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/crypto.jpg 891w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/crypto-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/crypto-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/crypto-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was a news-heavy Friday &#8211; and with the MAGA habit of breaking crap on Friday afternoons and evenings, it may not even have been over when I posted. Anything I missed will have to wait until next week. I do sometimes need time for dealing with clutter. And I am sorry, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/open-thread-may-24-2025\/' 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":[4355,3905,4531,5167,6397,3811,3792],"class_list":["post-56835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-budget","tag-dogs","tag-gop-cruelty","tag-miscellaneous","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","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\/56835","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=56835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835\/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=56835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}