{"id":57501,"date":"2025-09-01T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57501"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:17:03","slug":"open-thread-september-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/01\/open-thread-september-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after Saturday was rough, I slept till 2 pm- and started nodding off at about 4 pm. Normally, Trinette would have been by, but she has had a cold and doesn&#8217;t want to expose me to anything. If and only if she feels well enough, she&#8217;ll come today. Also over the weekend, a really beautiful fundraising email for Zoe Lofgren, authored by Liz Cheney, was sent out. Of course there&#8217;s no link. But Liz called Zoe &#8220;an unsung hero&#8221; for the Constitution, said she is &#8220;a thoughtful and serious member, and she operates with zero ego \u2011\u2011 a rarity in Congress,&#8221; and that she &#8220;has been a source of wisdom and good judgment for me and many Members in Congress.&#8221; Her closer was &#8220;Although we don\u2019t share many views on politics or public policy, I can assure you that we need Zoe in Congress and on the frontlines as we continue to protect and secure the future of our democracy.&#8221; Knowing, as we do, exactly how much they do disagree on policy, that&#8217;s one glowing recommendation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/family-of-brain-dead-pregnant-georgia-woman-forced-to-s-2000046183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Root<\/a>. If you thought this was over, it isn&#8217;t. Chance may be gaining weight, but his respiratory issues are likely to be lifelong &#8211; however long that may be. I don&#8217;t even know what to wish for little Chance and his heroine of a grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/199657\/trump-recession-coming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Republic<\/a> was referred by Daily Dose of Democracy. I think everyone here has a pretty good idea of what makes an economy healthy and why &#8211; but it isn&#8217;t necessarily all that easy to explain to people who for one reason or another have it backwards. I think this is a helpful analysis. I seldom if ever read The New Republic, but I checked that is has a strong reputation with the watchdogs for publishing just the facts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frsY81sO8FU?si=9aP1rvKLJViXtMw5\" 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\/EiSQWFu7_Zk?si=nzUfei4dtXRpmOEP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/praying.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/praying.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/praying-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/praying-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/praying-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after Saturday was rough, I slept till 2 pm- and started nodding off at about 4 pm. Normally, Trinette would have been by, but she has had a cold and doesn&#8217;t want to expose me to anything. If and only if she feels well enough, she&#8217;ll come today. Also over the weekend, a really <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/01\/open-thread-september-1-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,6391,4165,4767,3811,4317,6647,4395],"class_list":["post-57501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-childrens-health","tag-congress","tag-mass-shootings","tag-personal","tag-the-economy","tag-the-flag","tag-womens-health","category-145-id","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\/57501","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=57501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}