{"id":56916,"date":"2025-06-02T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56916"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:33:34","slug":"open-thread-june-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/open-thread-june-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 2 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil, and as usual, we played cribbage. On the way there, it was bright and sunny, but on the way back I ran into some rain and had to remove my sunglasses. But, obviously, I got home safely anyway, though of course tired out. I&#8217;m going to take my night meds, play at a game for a while, listen to the Broadway show that&#8217;s on Sundays from 8 to 9 pm, and then call it a night..<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/doge-confession-the-government-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the F* News<\/a>. I was briefly tempted to include this for Sunday, but only the lead article is actually good &#8211; and &#8211; it&#8217;s not actually news to anyone who has ever been or worked with a Federal civil servant. I don&#8217;t claim they are perfect, but I do claim adherence to their oaths by administrators.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever thought that those of us who described the current Republican Party as a death cult were exaggerating, this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/trump-administration-just-determined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> may change your mind. honestly, I don&#8217;t know what else you&#8217;d call it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KumVmJ85keY?si=Ckask3lq7w7tjyJW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1MTDEl8wR8I?si=z-yPTTL62PyIM21M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-56922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/drain.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil, and as usual, we played cribbage. On the way there, it was bright and sunny, but on the way back I ran into some rain and had to remove my sunglasses. But, obviously, I got home safely anyway, though of course tired out. I&#8217;m going to take my night meds, play <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/open-thread-june-2-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,6443,6346,6044,3811,6442,6444],"class_list":["post-56916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-death-cult","tag-deportations","tag-dystopia","tag-personal","tag-scofflaw","tag-talking-points","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\/56916","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=56916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56916\/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=56916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}