{"id":57036,"date":"2025-06-19T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57036"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:51:39","slug":"open-thread-june-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/open-thread-june-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 19 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/state-and-federal-charges-in-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> wrote about the legal status of the Minnesota shootings, and I want to link to it without discussing the content. In the email, there was an understandable conflation of the Hoffmans and the Hortmans, but it has now been fixed at the site. Also yesterday,\u00a0 Tucker Carlson, while interviewing Ted Cruz, actually made sense.\u00a0 Watch out for airborne pigs.<\/p>\n<p>I can see I&#8217;m going to have to start paying more attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/dems-crypto-schemers-have-entered-the-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever Report<\/a>. This is pretty scary.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t summarize this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/pope-leo-bishop-immigrants-court_n_684c41d0e4b070091d7755c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost<\/a> any better than by quoting the first two paragraphs: &#8220;The first U.S. pope is a citizen of Peru, and the first U.S. bishop he appointed is a refugee from Vietnam. And next week, that bishop is urging his fellow priests to stand in solidarity with migrants by showing up to immigration court proceedings. &#8211; There may be a pattern here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/where-the-hell-is-the-moderate-middle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reich on the Left<\/a> is, as usual, right. This is important.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1bKThAN1tM?si=8XPNCDgsFSidzSTQ\" 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\/8d3nMYMTBR0?si=9uEtDUuT0CjRmRCV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abuse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abuse.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abuse-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abuse-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abuse-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Joyce Vance wrote about the legal status of the Minnesota shootings, and I want to link to it without discussing the content. In the email, there was an understandable conflation of the Hoffmans and the Hortmans, but it has now been fixed at the site. Also yesterday,\u00a0 Tucker Carlson, while interviewing Ted Cruz, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/open-thread-june-19-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4999,6487,4650,6486,3826,6488,4855,3831],"class_list":["post-57036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-corporate-democrats","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-greed","tag-iran","tag-minnesota-shootings","tag-religion","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\/57036","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=57036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}