{"id":57646,"date":"2025-09-22T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57646"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:27:18","slug":"open-thread-september-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/open-thread-september-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and as usual we played cribbage. I may have said before that we count each hand, but we don&#8217;t keep a running total. We did when he was at other facilities, and i was careful to make sure he won at least half of the games we played. This can be done with making less-than-ideal discards to the crib. And anyone&#8217;s who&#8217;s ever played knows that near the end of the game, who wins it can depend simply on who counts first. The way we do it now is a bit easier since I don&#8217;t have to constantly watch the board (or the notepad &#8211; it can be done on a notepad if one tallies in groups of 5 and is consistent how many groups fit in a row, one can see at a glance who&#8217;s ahead). But as I say, just counting each hand without keeping a total, that&#8217;s not an issue. Also, if my &#8220;tags&#8221; look really gossipy today, yes, I took a break from thinking up impersonal issues to call them.<\/p>\n<p>As with Lisa Cook, so with Tish James. Neither attempted t claim that two homes were both primary residences, and both have the receipts. Will that stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/poor-ed-martin-cant-get-anybody-to\">MAGA Ed Martin<\/a>? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t squeeze this into Sunday because it was already full, and also because, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/how-ex-nfl-player-colin-kaepernick-is-investigating-tha-2000062922\">this is a lovely gesture<\/a>, the circumstances inspiring it are so grim.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmLFABJ1CJk?si=NHLlRlg4LnKZdhvU\" 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\/db0if65z85I?si=w4ZnN9bazQ97uNRD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dumbo-shade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dumbo-shade.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dumbo-shade-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dumbo-shade-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dumbo-shade-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and as usual we played cribbage. I may have said before that we count each hand, but we don&#8217;t keep a running total. We did when he was at other facilities, and i was careful to make sure he won at least half of the games we played. This can be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/open-thread-september-22-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6698,4531,6700,6697,6699,3811,6695,4285,6696],"class_list":["post-57646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-dogs","tag-ed-martin","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-letitia-james","tag-personal","tag-state-visit","tag-ted-cruz","tag-united-kingdom","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\/57646","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=57646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}