{"id":57405,"date":"2025-08-15T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57405"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:40:41","slug":"open-thread-august-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/15\/open-thread-august-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 15 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I tripped over this<\/a> on Democratic Underground and found it fascinating.
\nJoyce Vance<\/a> tackles a subject which requires a whole lot more analysis than I could ever hope to give it in this blog. World history is already full of non-factual “facts,” and don’t get me started on the interpretations of both real and fake facts – if I live to be a hundred, I would still not have enough time to do justice there. And explaining why it matters – to be very brief, if every human being has the right to be judged on the basis of actual fact, I believe that applies to the dead as well as to the living. But there’s more to it, including the harm done to living people sucj=ked it to admiring the evil and disdaining the good.<\/p>\n

After that highly abstract article and analysis from Joyce Vance, Steve Schmidt<\/a> gets very concrete and specific. How this government is making even us who did not vote for it complicit in murder.<\/p>\n

Yes, a third article, this one from Wonkette<\/a>, because we needed something on the lighter side, even though it’s not yet Sunday. (The content is serious but the tone is hilarious.)<\/p>\n

Belle CA v TX
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