{"id":57379,"date":"2025-08-11T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57379"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:49:01","slug":"open-thread-august-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/open-thread-august-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 11 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Virgil and I played cribbage as usual. It took about half the visit for the cards to &#8220;warm up&#8221; and give either of us a hand over 10 points.\u00a0 I was pretty tired out when i hot home so this is very, very late.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/08\/07\/ice-detained-suicide-pennsylvania-geo-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> does not have a paywall. It just has a popup which you can close. The article is short, but there is a list of related, or at least contemporary, articles below it (also short.) GEO has a point that they are nor as bad as CECOT &#8211; but that&#8217;s a remarkably low bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/a-tough-week-for-the-rule-of-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce<\/a> did publish a &#8220;The Week Ahead,&#8221; But I thought an overview of last week would be at least s helpful in grasping what is going on with the people who appear to be fighting harder than anyone else &#8211; courts and judges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzhtyvQBHwY?si=2dF1n1qONilRChpM\" 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\/ewkn2y7FaX0?si=HJe2R0C2Wpk2X4Wo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu-768x743.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sulu-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Virgil and I played cribbage as usual. It took about half the visit for the cards to &#8220;warm up&#8221; and give either of us a hand over 10 points.\u00a0 I was pretty tired out when i hot home so this is very, very late.\u00a0 Sorry. This from The Intercept does not have a paywall. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/open-thread-august-11-2025\/' 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":[4355,3744,3811],"class_list":["post-57379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-gop-fascism","tag-personal","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\/57379","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=57379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57379\/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=57379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}