{"id":56894,"date":"2025-05-28T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56894"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:22:43","slug":"open-thread-may-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/open-thread-may-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 28 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Andy Borowitz questioned Jake Tapper&#8217;s cognitive ability, since he wrote a book about the cognitive decline of a President-but it was the wrong President.\u00a0 Also, I streamed the National Memorial Day Concert which I had not caught on Sunday,\u00a0 It was still up (and may still be &#8211; if it is, anyone can watch it.\u00a0 My &#8220;Passport&#8221; is up to date, but I didn&#8217;t need to sign in to see it.\u00a0 Also, Joe Mantegna does not have a life-threatening medical condition &#8211; is not even bedridden &#8211; he just has an inner ear issue\u00a0 such that his doctor won&#8217;t let him fly and he would have had to fly to get to DC timely.)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/05\/22\/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a>. Kind of makes me even more glad that I am old. And that I am in a financial position such that, although I meet my financial obligations, I don&#8217;t have a lot left over so I&#8217;m less attractive as a target.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/05\/mothers-against-police-brutality-justice-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 19th<\/a>. Not news. Instead, a deep dive into police killings, the men they killed, and their mothers whose lives were changed forever. Lest we forget.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know what to think about this. He is such a liar &#8211; but even if this is a real breakthrough, he is so cognitively impaired that it&#8217;s not terribly likely that he&#8217;s able to hang on to it. And of course he still is who he is. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/trump-notices-for-first-time-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> discusses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0mbBa3A3uk?si=Z0Vv1QD29JBSA5dR\" 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\/ntmy_ZdORZ4?si=gfwiCx2ZLl18lzFf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fewe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fewe.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fewe-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fewe-135x150.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Andy Borowitz questioned Jake Tapper&#8217;s cognitive ability, since he wrote a book about the cognitive decline of a President-but it was the wrong President.\u00a0 Also, I streamed the National Memorial Day Concert which I had not caught on Sunday,\u00a0 It was still up (and may still be &#8211; if it is, anyone can watch <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/open-thread-may-28-2025\/' 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":[6431,4355,4111,3723,4531,6429,4031,3811,6430,3982,4091,3831],"class_list":["post-56894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-andy-borowitz","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-dogs","tag-making-do","tag-national-security","tag-personal","tag-police-brutality","tag-privacy","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-world","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\/56894","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=56894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/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=56894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}