{"id":57178,"date":"2025-07-11T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57178"},"modified":"2025-07-11T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:30:21","slug":"open-thread-july-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/open-thread-july-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 11 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the ACLU announced in an email that it had quickly refiled to block the executive order against birthright citizenship as a class action, allowing a federal judge to block it nation wide. Also, I got my blood test results and none of my meds is changing this time – a welcome first. Also, the 19th advised me that the first Barbie doll to have Type 1 diabetes is here. This is what she looks like<\/a>. If it seems weird to you to se something so comparatively “normal” in the news, you are not alone.<\/p>\n

This from the F* News<\/a> is brilliantly framed and might\"\" possibly even suck MAGA into reading it, though they might not get the point.<\/p>\n

Press Watch<\/a> with Dan Froomkin – who does know what journalism is, and also what it isn’t. If you claim to be a journalist, and have “a strong belief and passion” in anything other than truth and accuracy – you are nor a journalist. Period. (And the New York Times is just as bad and getting worse by the day.)<\/p>\n

It’s hardly news that Republicans lie. Some of us who have been saying they lie like Democrats breath are now starting to re-evaluate that, because they lie so much more than Democrats breathe. It should be no surprise that Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> has their number.<\/p>\n