{"id":57444,"date":"2025-08-22T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57444"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:29:19","slug":"open-thread-august-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/22\/open-thread-august-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noticed that, although one might think that when I&#8217;m moving slowly, time moves slowly, it&#8217;s actually just the opposite. I am moving slowly &#8211; but the days are flying by with much not accomplished. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Another multipurpose article, this one from <a href=\"https:\/\/salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com\/p\/trump-wants-putin-to-be-his-daddy-d011b2d8c83bc7b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Marcotte<\/a>. But if you want to read just the first section, I&#8217;ll be fine with that.<\/p>\n<p>I assume everyone&#8217;s heard at least the bare bones of this travesty. But the bare bones cannot give one the feel of what is happening here. This article from <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/08\/nicole-collier-texas-house-protest-women-solidarity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 19th<\/a>, on the other hand, does.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5_MKe5cej0?si=bX9mYQ2yZgrwRnRR\" 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\/ynqaUtGXkHc?si=0lpyJ2APzf0xtTIY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TxSpkr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TxSpkr.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TxSpkr-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TxSpkr-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TxSpkr-768x698.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noticed that, although one might think that when I&#8217;m moving slowly, time moves slowly, it&#8217;s actually just the opposite. I am moving slowly &#8211; but the days are flying by with much not accomplished. Sigh. Another multipurpose article, this one from Amanda Marcotte. But if you want to read just the first section, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/22\/open-thread-august-22-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,4531,5206,3866,6397,3811,3748,4276,6620],"class_list":["post-57444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-false-arrest","tag-history","tag-miscellaneous","tag-personal","tag-racism","tag-texas","tag-texas-house","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\/57444","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=57444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57444\/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=57444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}