{"id":57697,"date":"2025-09-29T05:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57697"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:55:30","slug":"open-thread-september-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/open-thread-september-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 29 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there was another <a href=\"https:\/\/lizadonnelly.substack.com\/p\/more-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass shooting<\/a>, this one near Flint, MI. It was complicated by a vehicle crash, an explosion, and a highly destructive fire, which may have killed more people than bullets did. The shooter is alleged to be known and to have suicided. On a happier note, Trinette was over. She always makes my life better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizadonnelly.substack.com\/p\/trump-craves-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liza Donnelly<\/a> shares a cartoon of the Poopypants Pariah, and a statement from James Comey, who, though not blameless, I&#8217;m certain has not done anything indictable (You may have seen it. It&#8217;s had wide exposure.) And if you like baseball, you should check it out just for the baseball cartoons that finish it up.<\/p>\n<p>I did know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/epstein-files-get-your-fresh-epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the statue<\/a>. Some of this other stuff I didn&#8217;t know, some I expected, some I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a fairly comprehensive roundup.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I read this <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/questions-for-the-generals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Warning<\/a> article long enough before my dinner to be able to keep it down. Not all my memories from Quantico ae happy ones &#8211; but even those which are less so are formative. The thought of Hegseth even setting foot there makes me nauseous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkZ5FD2g5UA?si=ArA3BWSsbgOEq3jp\" 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\/SWdavKADMyA?si=339gdi9Oz2zENGnF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SPaLago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SPaLago.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SPaLago-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SPaLago-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SPaLago-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there was another mass shooting, this one near Flint, MI. It was complicated by a vehicle crash, an explosion, and a highly destructive fire, which may have killed more people than bullets did. The shooter is alleged to be known and to have suicided. On a happier note, Trinette was over. She always makes <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/open-thread-september-29-2025\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-57697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/57697","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=57697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57697\/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=57697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}