{"id":57073,"date":"2025-06-25T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57073"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:59:14","slug":"open-thread-june-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/open-thread-june-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 25 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/ric-grenell-will-not-throw-awvay-his\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> unintentionally informed me that I guess I&#8217;m going to have to thank my junior Senator for something. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite good enough for me to apologize, but a &#8220;thank you&#8221; won&#8217;t kill me. Also yesterday, Rep Al Green introduced new articles of impeachment and forced a vote on them using Article IX. And <strong>128 Democrats<\/strong> voted with Republicans to table them. I knew my Rep wasn&#8217;t one because my rep is a Rethug. But I did look up the record, so if you want to know how yours voted <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2025175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here it is<\/a>. In Colorado, only Diane DeGette had the balls to vote not to table it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/a-remarkable-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> forwards, if you will, a letter from Liz Cheney. I cannot disagree with either of them on this.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/petebuttigieg.substack.com\/p\/we-are-still-underreacting-on-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> speaks, I&#8217;m inclined to listen. Particularly when he speaks about something he has just spent two weeks doing a deep dive into. The article is not all that long, but every word is important.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TteyoWLzq4?si=JqXec_0sPuU-gtc6\" 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\/JRYmRRHz6Uk?si=l_QG1TytsNpvLrqh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fork.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fork-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fork-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fork-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Wonkette unintentionally informed me that I guess I&#8217;m going to have to thank my junior Senator for something. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite good enough for me to apologize, but a &#8220;thank you&#8221; won&#8217;t kill me. Also yesterday, Rep Al Green introduced new articles of impeachment and forced a vote on them using Article <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/open-thread-june-25-2025\/' 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":[4355,4146,6501,4531,3722,6503,3902,6502,3792,3851],"class_list":["post-57073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-big-brutal-bill","tag-dogs","tag-impeachment","tag-kennedy-center","tag-lgbtqia","tag-liz-cheney","tag-robert-reich","tag-social-security","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\/57073","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=57073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57073\/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=57073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}