{"id":57461,"date":"2025-08-25T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57461"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:55:45","slug":"open-thread-august-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/open-thread-august-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 25 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, going to see Virgil was easy and being with him did raise my spirits. Coming home, on the other hand &#8211; it was perfectly clear skies and sun until I got on the Interstate &#8211; and from there it was rain and\/or hail all the way. Several people (probably with more sense than I have) pulled over to wait it out. Those of us who persevered &#8211; none of us was going faster than 60 in the 75 zone, and some of us slower. There were actually very few scary moments, and I got home safely well before 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>It was actually Saturday I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10143517568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read about this<\/a>. There&#8217;s no longer any effort, it appears, to disguise the malice as anything decent at all. It&#8217;s just revenge and retaliation &#8211; in this case retaliation for truthfully making public that the regime makes mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ice-children-hotel-detention-nyc-deported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a>. I really do not know what to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/doge-musk-mohammad-halimi-institute-peace-taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a>&#8216;s investigations do turn up the least expected and often the least publicized things &#8211; with one thing in common &#8211; injustice.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/ghislaine-maxwell-said-some-are-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> &#8211; which you may not see elsewhere (possibly The Guardian, but not in U.S. MSM) won&#8217;t surprise anyone here &#8211; but it should be shouted from the rooftops.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fc2a9rZ7zI0?si=RaI-0Z5XjPe93lYr\" 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\/q8oc6j3wsRw?si=5b5NbUAaWxAH9v3e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/genie-768x1146.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, going to see Virgil was easy and being with him did raise my spirits. Coming home, on the other hand &#8211; it was perfectly clear skies and sun until I got on the Interstate &#8211; and from there it was rain and\/or hail all the way. Several people (probably with more sense than I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/open-thread-august-25-2025\/' 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":[5],"tags":[4355,6234,4531,6624,6626,3709,6552,3811,6628,6627,6625],"class_list":["post-57461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-doge","tag-dogs","tag-genies","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-humor","tag-icestapo","tag-personal","tag-taliban","tag-trump-cabinet","tag-womens-suffrage","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\/57461","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=57461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57461\/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=57461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}