{"id":57155,"date":"2025-07-07T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57155"},"modified":"2025-07-06T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:18:41","slug":"open-thread-july-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/open-thread-july-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 7 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by. Unless she&#8217;s out of town, she comes by on the Sunsays when I don&#8217;t visit Virgil and helps me with anything I need that is too strenuous for me. And we chat. It&#8217;s both stimulating and relaxing for me and she also enjoys it. She inspired me to put a sign up on the storm door saying &#8220;Coution: Retired person inside. Knows everything and has plenty of time to talk about it.&#8221; Yeah, someyimes it&#8217;s like that. But the keeps coming and keeps staying to hear stuff, so it can&#8217;t be all that painful.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220463765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simple joke<\/a> but also an allegory for something far more complex. And I recommend reading the comments too &#8211; they have some potential refinements, most of which would make an even more accurate allegory. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>The May Day Movement, which has organized prior nationwide protests, has two more events being set up. The first is for July 17 &#8211; I have mentioned it, but I don&#8217;t think I knew till now it&#8217;s being called a <a href=\"https:\/\/goodtroubleliveson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Good Trouble Event&#8221;<\/a> and will focus on John Lewis&#8217;s memory. The second is for September 1; it&#8217;s still in the planning stages but they are already <a href=\"http:\/\/maydaystrong.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking for signups<\/a> for it also. Yes, the two sites linked have different names, but working together is so much a part of this resistance movement, I believe all are connected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/a-letter-to-america-from-a-canadian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> notes that there are still decent people here, and, maybe even more necessary, people elsewhere who are aware of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_n3EJL-Hiik?si=sG58LfJbeIngm8Qk\" 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\/93BOl8ETO1k?si=FSgzAG427MoaxlTU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tired-yet-519x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tired-yet-519x1024.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tired-yet-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tired-yet-76x150.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tired-yet.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by. Unless she&#8217;s out of town, she comes by on the Sunsays when I don&#8217;t visit Virgil and helps me with anything I need that is too strenuous for me. And we chat. It&#8217;s both stimulating and relaxing for me and she also enjoys it. She inspired me to put a sign <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/open-thread-july-7-2025\/' 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":[4933,4355,4111,6530,3709,3811,6529,4317,6042],"class_list":["post-57155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-allegory","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-faith","tag-humor","tag-personal","tag-the-dollar","tag-the-economy","tag-the-resistance","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\/57155","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=57155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155\/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=57155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}