{"id":57358,"date":"2025-08-07T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57358"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:14:20","slug":"open-thread-august-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 7 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my exterminator came by. There&#8217;s slow progress &#8211; but it is progress.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose anyone here doesn&#8217;t know <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Bs1sc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is happening<\/a>. (&#8216;m glad Howard from Aurora was there &#8211; a reminder people can live in war zones and still be decent people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/forms\/people-vs-billionaires-week-of-action-get-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Network<\/a> is declaring the week of August 21-27 &#8221; People vs Billionaires Week of Action&#8221;, and has plans, and is making more plans. And also looking for more ideas. At least I can provide more notice time for this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/trump-gabbard-and-bondi-go-full-jacobin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds Harry Litman<\/a> is well aware about how dangerous and serious all the crap from this administration is. But this seems to me more of a sounding the alarm than his usual style. You won&#8217;t be able to see the whole thing, but there&#8217;s plenty in what we can see<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3OoaAMaRVEc?si=SJNynxuRtWkfthZg\" 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\/WJEjxk5Se-I?si=AWY2Wuij-6UM1T2V\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist-975x1024.jpg 975w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/checklist-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my exterminator came by. There&#8217;s slow progress &#8211; but it is progress. I don&#8217;t suppose anyone here doesn&#8217;t know this is happening. (&#8216;m glad Howard from Aurora was there &#8211; a reminder people can live in war zones and still be decent people. Action Network is declaring the week of August 21-27 &#8221; People <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-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":[4355,4403,4111,3723,5318,3811,6588,6042],"class_list":["post-57358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-autocracy","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-law","tag-personal","tag-the-arts","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\/57358","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=57358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/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=57358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}