{"id":57663,"date":"2025-09-24T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57663"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:16:11","slug":"open-thread-september-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/24\/open-thread-september-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 24 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, another quiet day &#8211; which is wonderful, Heck, any one day under the current regime is more excitement than I need for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Jimmy Kimmel was back on TV last night (as Wonkette and others expected). But that doesn&#8217;t matter in connection with what <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-deeper-story-behind-americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> has to say about the whole kerfuffle, both here and in his video for Inequality Media (below).<\/p>\n<p>Dan Froomkin from <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalread.substack.com\/p\/is-the-new-york-times-finally-getting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Watch<\/a> thinks the Old Gray Lady may be reverting to actual journalism. I think the key words are &#8220;may be,&#8221; but he does have some examples to share. I note that this does NOT apply to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/why-democrats-should-shut-down-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds<\/a> Substack is, of course, an opinion, but I have seen a fair amount about this, and thought about it. I would never support shutting down a government which is working well. But this one isn&#8217;t. It is in fact actively harmful. And I think Talking Feds is on to something. To shut down the Government and make it count, we need to make it about fascism. I think we can, and I think we should.<\/p>\n<p>A guest video today from Robert Reich &#8211; not just OK but encouraged to share.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCuOx5yXeQU?si=qtAuudUbMVErYx9o\" 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\/2VB9IEuWoYA?si=48luKd7eANunEavA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/door-sign.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/door-sign.jpeg 577w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/door-sign-180x300.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/door-sign-90x150.jpeg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, another quiet day &#8211; which is wonderful, Heck, any one day under the current regime is more excitement than I need for the rest of my life. Apparently Jimmy Kimmel was back on TV last night (as Wonkette and others expected). But that doesn&#8217;t matter in connection with what Robert Reich has to say <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/24\/open-thread-september-24-2025\/' 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":[4355,4486,5369,4531,4392,5966,6697,3811,6703,3792,6704],"class_list":["post-57663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-censorship","tag-disney","tag-dogs","tag-fascism","tag-government-shutdown","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-personal","tag-political-canvassers","tag-robert-reich","tag-the-new-york-times","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\/57663","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=57663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57663\/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=57663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}