{"id":57478,"date":"2025-08-28T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57478"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:23:39","slug":"open-thread-august-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/open-thread-august-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 28 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Trinette in which she mentioned medicine. I called, and it turned out she had caught a cold from one of her sons. Today was the third day of it and she was feeling better (and sounded pretty good, fingers crossed.) Of course I urged her to take care of herself.<\/p>\n<p>This just may be one of the most optimistic posts that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/wonder-jury-powers-nullify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> has ever posted. And of course he is right. Jury nullification happens, and it&#8217;s not always the best resolution to a case, but when it is, it is. Just look at the three grand jury nullifications in a row on the same case that Judge Boxwine just endured.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday&#8217;s parody music video, I remarked that I guessed AI was actually good for something. If you didn&#8217;t believe me then, you may believe it after reading (or even just skimming) this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/if-the-u-s-ever-turns-authoritarian-these-are-the-10-2000058392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a>. The only one it missed was Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ox8rDnO9wbg?si=W6AeJwNE-QORh1aM\" 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\/bDeYlkdmvxU?si=TWW64LfzkU6ShmIB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mirror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mirror.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mirror-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mirror-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Trinette in which she mentioned medicine. I called, and it turned out she had caught a cold from one of her sons. Today was the third day of it and she was feeling better (and sounded pretty good, fingers crossed.) Of course I urged her to take care of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/open-thread-august-28-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,6636,4531,4505,6638,6639,3811,6637],"class_list":["post-57478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-delusion","tag-dogs","tag-gerrymandering","tag-gop-villains","tag-jury-nullification","tag-personal","tag-utah","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\/57478","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=57478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57478\/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=57478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}