{"id":57591,"date":"2025-09-13T06:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57591"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:05:56","slug":"open-thread-september-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/13\/open-thread-september-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 13 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Kings via Move On<\/a> (which is connected to Robert Reich) about their next demonstration scheduled for October 18. I&#8217;m pretty sure I already shared that date, but am repeating just in case. This (obviously) will be electoral politics related. And the climate related one, &#8220;Sun Day,&#8221; is still on for September 21st. I may not be able to go, but by golly, I can at least spread the word. Here&#8217;s the No Kings RSVP link. And yes, this is early. But they have a lot of events scheduled already, and they also have some training events scheduled<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Mango Mussolini, everyone is scrambling for money these days. I suspect we should expect new paywalls where they have not previously been. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zMOHD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a> does not have a paywall, but they do have enough of a maze of asks that I archived this. You still need to scroll down &#8211; but that should be all. In view of the backlash just from a fine (two-term) President having brown skin, I think we need to take this seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And this from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/trumps-chief-of-staff-just-previewed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> was already under weigh before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I do wish more people had paid attention. We did our best to warn them but so many did not believe us.<\/p>\n<p>Another guest video &#8211; probably nothing you didn&#8217;t suspect, but it&#8217;s here now &#8211; it&#8217;s happening. At least it will all be out in the open &#8211; because discovery. Just under 12 minutes.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KucQWmIz30?si=V-W4eB4fHG3QY-iy\" 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\/hExFsgu6lXg?si=_i6S5BXd4mPC0_Es\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4freedoms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4freedoms.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4freedoms-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4freedoms-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4freedoms-768x592.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from No Kings via Move On (which is connected to Robert Reich) about their next demonstration scheduled for October 18. I&#8217;m pretty sure I already shared that date, but am repeating just in case. This (obviously) will be electoral politics related. And the climate related one, &#8220;Sun Day,&#8221; is still <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/13\/open-thread-september-13-2025\/' 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":[4355,4064,6678,4531,6677,4845,4002],"class_list":["post-57591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-authoritarianism","tag-backlash","tag-dogs","tag-four-freedoms","tag-litigation","tag-protests","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\/57591","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=57591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591\/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=57591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}