{"id":57389,"date":"2025-08-12T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57389"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:03:20","slug":"open-thread-august-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/open-thread-august-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 12 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wanted to start working on some things like persona paperwork I have been putting off,\u00a0 But a lot of it I couldn&#8217;t fund.\u00a0 When I finally did find one important document, I discovered that when my printer malfunctioned, it took the scanner with it (probably the fax also, but I never use that any more.)\u00a0 Very frustrating.\u00a0 And as if thet weren&#8217;t enough, my refrigerator is acting up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure everyone notices i was very, VERY late posting.\u00a0 Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ldad.org\/letters-briefs\/clark-ethics-complaint-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is good news<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t want to wait until Sunday to share it. Perhaps the best two word in it are &#8220;automatically suspended.&#8221; He is currently the Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget. I don&#8217;t know whether that person needs to be a [not disbarred] lawyer, but it sounds possible, perhaps even probable. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Joyce Vance had done a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-5b9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week Ahead<\/a>&#8221; e ither Friday or Saturday night. Either i was wrong, or she did another one Monday evening, which is about as current as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately i did not have any liquid in my mouth when I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/dc-mayor-says-best-way-for-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> &#8211; I would surely have spit it out.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Kudos to Ohio on this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ohi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ohi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ohi-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ohi-127x150.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Belle CA Gov<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paapdDnN5k8?si=TIQYr-tf9fYFNq21\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSZXP3-bh3U?si=3Sl6bAyCSku6brAi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nobel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nobel.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nobel-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nobel-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nobel-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wanted to start working on some things like persona paperwork I have been putting off,\u00a0 But a lot of it I couldn&#8217;t fund.\u00a0 When I finally did find one important document, I discovered that when my printer malfunctioned, it took the scanner with it (probably the fax also, but I never use that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/open-thread-august-12-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4355,4554,4111,6595,6594,5498,3811,5250],"class_list":["post-57389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-california","tag-cats","tag-disbarment","tag-nobel-prize","tag-ohio","tag-personal","tag-predictions","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\/57389","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=57389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}