{"id":57090,"date":"2025-06-28T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57090"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:09:49","slug":"open-thread-june-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/28\/open-thread-june-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 28 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the Supreme Court gave us a decision dump. It’s a dump in all senses. And there’s a good deal of coverage all over the net, so I’ll just add that my heart goes out to Justuce Sotomayor, who must be in licking-her-wounds mode big time. Also, I learned that a No-Secret-Police Act has been introduced in Congress. Civic Shout<\/a> has a petition to applaud it.<\/p>\n

Many, maybe most, of Meidas Touch<\/a> Substacks posts are videos. I literally cannot watch them. If I try, my brain starts wandering and my stomach tightens. This does not mean Meidas is bad – in fact, it’s more likely to mean it’s very good indeed – since that happens to me with some of the best speakers. But it does happen, and I won’t post anything I cannot evaluate. Fortunately, this post is not a video (it is from a video, and it contains a short video of Mrs. Abrego Garcia), and it addresses something that no one else is, as far as I can tell. If they are, they are leaving out the human side. And without empathy, our work is – not worthless, but worth less.<\/p>\n

Others are spreading this news, but I thought I’d post it straight from the source which did the investigating – Project on Government Oversight<\/a> (POGO)<\/p>\n

One more thing from Pete Buttigieg<\/a>. He does manage to find things that others miss.<\/p>\n