{"id":57507,"date":"2025-09-02T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57507"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:02:30","slug":"open-thread-september-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/open-thread-september-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 2 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette didn&#8217;t feel she was safe to come over, but is pretty sure she will by Wednesday evening. I sent her a Jacquie Lawson card with a recipe for chicken soup. I did get a little knitting done &#8211; not a whole lot, but enough to get me finished with a yarn that was dragging me down (a ladder yarn to be precise). I&#8217;ll be finishing the garment with a normal worsted yarn which is mostly recycled fibers (I am guessing mostly acrylic.)<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/sunday-thought-263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> points out, nothing here is any reason for complacency. But they are reasons for hanging in there and fighting as much as we individually can.<\/p>\n<p>There are several topics in this <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/blue-states-step-up-where-trump-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News article<\/a>, but the main one, the first one, is public health &#8211; and those of us who live in blue states can all be grateful for the news here. Those of us in red states &#8230; your nearest blue state may be a good place to look for vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>I threw this in as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10143521782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sort of extra<\/a>, because it made me so angry. The Mango Moron is not smart enough to know about the 30-day minimum himself &#8211; so some veteran must have broken his (or her) oath and told him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eAmDhb-KoBs?si=U3nlMDFK4Nt7LVq6\" 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\/0kPMQWWj1CE?si=6-2UEKAD2fOPM37n\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/no-vax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"888\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/no-vax.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/no-vax-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/no-vax-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/no-vax-768x609.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette didn&#8217;t feel she was safe to come over, but is pretty sure she will by Wednesday evening. I sent her a Jacquie Lawson card with a recipe for chicken soup. I did get a little knitting done &#8211; not a whole lot, but enough to get me finished with a yarn that was <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/open-thread-september-2-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,3866,6460,3811,3910,3792,3838,4511,4345],"class_list":["post-57507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-history","tag-national-guard","tag-personal","tag-public-health","tag-robert-reich","tag-russia","tag-vaccinations","tag-vaccines","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\/57507","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=57507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507\/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=57507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}