{"id":57114,"date":"2025-07-01T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57114"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:14:14","slug":"open-thread-july-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/open-thread-july-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I went through a little more than two days of emails – I had not had the energy to tackle Sunday’s on Sunday. But Joyce Vance’s “The Week Ahead<\/a>” from Sunday really shouldn’t be missed, both for the analysis and for the hope. Harry Litman<\/a> addressed the same case – not the verdict itself but apparently even lawyers can’t agree on how awful it is.) Also yesterday – remember the Pearl Street bombing in Boulder, CO on June 1? Well, one more victim has died, as reported by Colorado Public Radio<\/a>. She was 82 years old. Finally, USA Today<\/a> has a pretty detailed account of the shooting in Idaho. I won’t claim is the best – I didn’t check everywhere – but it’s pretty solid. No paywall.
\nhttps:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-<\/p>\n

This is a few days old<\/a> – but I think still interesting to anyone who is still wondering just how effed up the knuckle-draggers working in the current regime can get. I would put this somewhere in the territory of FUBB and FUBAR.<\/p>\n

John Pavlovitz<\/a> was inspired (as was I) by Joe Biden’s presence and demeanor at the funeral of the Hortmans (Melissa, Mark, and Gilbert). This is what he had to say about it – and I can agree with just about every word. I did know what we had, and you may recall, was so crushed when he dropped out of the race that I had to take a week off to collect myself. I wish I had a way to forward this to President Joe. He deserves to know how much he is loved and missed.<\/p>\n