{"id":57146,"date":"2025-07-05T05:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57146"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:00:34","slug":"open-thread-july-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/open-thread-july-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 5 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Virgil called and as always, asked how I was doing. I told him I really didn&#8217;t want to talk about it, so we didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ll see him a week from tomorrow and if I&#8217;m up to it I&#8217;ll talk with him about it then. There were some explosions in the neighborhood , and it was, after all, the fourth, but it was nothing like previous years. And it may even stop after today, which is also nothing like previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we are. <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-opening-of-an-american-concentration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> discusses &#8220;Alligator Alcatraz&#8221; and compares it, not with Alcatraz, but with Auschwitz. H wonders out loud about the process of getting building permits. I would dudprvt there was no such process in Florida. Not that Florida law doesn&#8217;t cover it &#8211; it almost certainly does, though we have learned through multiple hurricanes that the specs are pretty lenient. But as the brainchild of the governor, I would expect it to have been bypassed.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all know, because of Glenn Kirschner&#8217;s video, that Abrego Garcia&#8217;s attorneys requested he be kept in federal custody so that ICE could not kidnap him again. That&#8217;s one court case involving him. Another is a suit his wife has filed against ICE, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/this-is-what-trump-paid-el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her attorneys have released a filing<\/a> detailing what he endured while in CECOT. Yes, it&#8217;s ugly. And that&#8217;s why you should read it and spread it to others who have a milligram of empathy. No need to share it with anyone who will be aroused by it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-w8eR_shMy8?si=bGOsqGQcMqxVK9Om\" 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\/rhShLzq46zI?si=KMhtWYQhRsHIhrHX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/holocaust-64x64.jpeg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Virgil called and as always, asked how I was doing. I told him I really didn&#8217;t want to talk about it, so we didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ll see him a week from tomorrow and if I&#8217;m up to it I&#8217;ll talk with him about it then. There were some explosions in the neighborhood , and it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/open-thread-july-5-2025\/' 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":[4355,6501,4111,6333,4833,3811,6528],"class_list":["post-57146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-big-brutal-bill","tag-cats","tag-concentration-camps","tag-holocaust","tag-personal","tag-torture","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\/57146","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=57146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146\/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=57146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}