{"id":57000,"date":"2025-06-14T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57000"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:12:25","slug":"open-thread-june-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/open-thread-june-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 14 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, I mentioned that Pete Buttigieg now has a Substack<\/a>. A couple of days later, Heather Cox Richardson invited him to a video conversation which was broadcast as recorded. The recording is now available, probably on both Substacks, but I watched it on Pete’s. If you have a spare three quarters of an hour or so, and you’d like to spend it in the company of two people who are intelligent, knowledgeable, sane, and just good people, this may be for you.<\/p>\n

As Wonkette<\/a> does not say (but I do), families are not a certain predictor of a person’s principles. Some apples fall a county, or a state, or a country away from the tree. These people coming up with these conspiracy theories, particularly the ones including trafficking children- I mean, for that to even occur to them doesn’t say much for their own morals.<\/p>\n

This opinion piece (I say opinion, but it’s the truth) by Rebecca Solnit<\/a> got her banned from Facebook. But Wonkette’s “TABs” linked to it. If you are here before going out to a “No Kings Day” event, this is probably the one to read now and the rest later.<\/p>\n

I threw in this from Wonkette<\/a> because I didn’t want it to wait. I also didn’t want it to get buried. Foreign policy is not an area which gets much attention (unless there’s a war – and that goes double for the current isolationist atmosphere) and I thought this important.<\/p>\n