{"id":57009,"date":"2025-06-16T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57009"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:29:44","slug":"open-thread-june-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/open-thread-june-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 16 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. Though it was Father’s Day, there was only one inmate in the visiting room whose visitation included a child. That doesn’t mean necessarily that he was\u00a0 the only father who was visited – visiting is also allowed on Friday and Saturday – I just prefer Sunday because the traffic is calmer. There was a little bit of rain on my way back (maybe even a little hail – but if so, very small – maybe pinhead size.) And neither the rain nor the hail lasted long at all.<\/p>\n

Evan Hurst<\/a> is a staff writer for Wonkette, but he also has his own Substack called “The Moral High Ground.” (And there’s always a link to it at the end of his pieces, including this one.) I think everyone who is progressive has moral reasons for that stand, but we don’t always appeal to them when discussing politics – and I’m not saying we should, but maybe we should think about it. As you can tell even just from the title, “moral” doesn’t necessarily imply “respectable word choices.” And that, I think, is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Yes, I learned about these shootings<\/a> on Saturday, but I wasn’t about to put this in Sunday’s post. I will only add to Joyce that Melissa Hartman was not just a representative, but also a former Speaker of the Minnesota House. So much for “Minnesota nice.” (Or maybe that only applies to the DFL party.)<\/p>\n