{"id":56992,"date":"2025-06-12T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56992"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:43:12","slug":"open-thread-june-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/open-thread-june-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 12 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, It was quite a news day &#8211; I filled up two days, which is a good thing, because&#8230; I also had two packages arrive at two different times &#8211; fortunately, both were left on the porch so I got them in without having to endanger myself. Then I had online issues with one of my banks (I guess I should say &#8220;with my bank&#8221; since the other is a credit union.) The website appears no longer to have an easy way to put a message into a queue for them, so I ended up typing a letter, &#8220;printing&#8221; it into a pdf, and uploading that.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/stephen-miller-planning-to-disappear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> pretty well sums up what we have all been expecting since last November. At that, it could be worse. If you remember my Stravinsky story &#8211; with the magistrate saying &#8220;In Germany today, such things happen all the time&#8221; and sending them away &#8211; at least we are protesting. And how. Right now I feel like I just want to live long enough to see Stephen Miller get to the FO stage of FAFO. But I&#8217;m sure when I cool down a little I&#8217;ll think of other names for that list.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fightcrc.org\/meet-our-2025-ambassador-teams-5423952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is spooky<\/a>. It was only two days ago that I made my comment about government in exile. I made it here, and also on Substack. And already yesterday it appears that someone with money read it. No, I don&#8217;t really believe that &#8211; it&#8217;s probably just a matter of great minds falling in the same ditch, as TC would have said &#8211; but the synchronicity is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/nation-has-other-plans-for-childs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the F* News<\/a> is not a huge story &#8211; but it does have implications which may or may not be hopeful. When the attitudes chronicled here start to show up in the voting, that will be a story &#8211; if it happens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uj-8p3xCO6I?si=wigdIRqaU8j6SxOG\" 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\/HXyYCjhDrJ4?si=0cC2UvRt8n1jgJme\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/free-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, It was quite a news day &#8211; I filled up two days, which is a good thing, because&#8230; I also had two packages arrive at two different times &#8211; fortunately, both were left on the porch so I got them in without having to endanger myself. Then I had online issues with one of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/open-thread-june-12-2025\/' 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":[4355,6058,4531,5458,6464,3811,6465,3764,6466],"class_list":["post-56992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-distraction","tag-dogs","tag-fafo","tag-government-in-exile","tag-personal","tag-popularity-decline","tag-projection","tag-stephen-miller","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\/56992","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=56992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56992\/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=56992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}