{"id":57131,"date":"2025-07-03T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57131"},"modified":"2025-07-02T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:27:08","slug":"open-thread-july-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/open-thread-july-3-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 3 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent about 17 minutes watching a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/petebuttigieg.substack.com\/p\/this-family-is-on-the-front-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s Substack<\/a> &#8211; an interview with the mother of twin girls, one of whose lives depends on Medicaid. This shows why Pete is the best communicator in the Democratic Party &#8211; and one of the best in history. Tissue alert.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57124 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tissue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"41\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are two articles from the 19th.<a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/07\/uprooted-milwaukee-family-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> One is a detailed story<\/a> of one person who is a victim of ICE. But even in the context of this incident an entire community is affected. And the regime is taking this to such lengths that anyone could be affected. But <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/06\/internet-culture-algorithms-alpha-males-tradwives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the other article<\/a> is about trends which absolutely will affect everyone over time &#8211; everyone who is still above ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-supreme-courts-pandoras-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> on the Supreme Court. I see I am not the only one who turns to Greek mythology to interpret present day events. That &#8211; and animals and knittng &#8211; I guess are reasons I feel somehow connected to Joyce.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIGuzACkUao?si=bu33tL3Ief3Sm48N\" 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\/gBrmIhTm3dQ?si=DRic51GttHX6svUG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/get-lost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/get-lost.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/get-lost-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/get-lost-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/get-lost-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent about 17 minutes watching a video on Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s Substack &#8211; an interview with the mother of twin girls, one of whose lives depends on Medicaid. This shows why Pete is the best communicator in the Democratic Party &#8211; and one of the best in history. Tissue alert.\u00a0 Here are two articles <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/open-thread-july-3-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4531,4077,4069,3853,6460,3758,3910,4116,6523],"class_list":["post-57131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-medicaid","tag-national-guard","tag-pete-buttigieg","tag-public-health","tag-supreme-court","tag-youth-culture","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\/57131","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=57131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}