{"id":57700,"date":"2025-09-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57700"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:39:08","slug":"open-thread-september-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/open-thread-september-30-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 30 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as usual on a Monday, I slept quite late. And today is the day of the &#8220;meeting&#8221; at Quantico. I may just sleep late again. I&#8217;d rather not even be awake, let alone reading about it, while Hogsbreath desecrates Quantico with his presence.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/26\/musk-bannon-thiel-epstein-documents-00582627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>) is interesting. Not, I would say, surprising, but interesting<\/p>\n<p>Resist. Persist. Repeat. It sounds so simple, doesn&#8217;t it. And it is simple. But simple is not the same thing as easy. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-science-of-defiance-a-psychology-researcher-explains-why-people-comply-and-how-to-resist-264567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a> addresses why compliance can be so much easier than defiance, and what can be done about it.<\/p>\n<p>There are two stories in this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/ice-finally-finds-one-1-bad-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a>, and either one might be accompanied by a tissue alert, so with the two together, I think the alert is necessary. Also, there&#8217;s more about the Roberts arrest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/inside-the-dramatic-ice-arrest-of-the-black-iowa-school-2000064436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. However, there are hundreds, or thousands, of cases very much like these, and if we don&#8217;t take a closer look at some of them, we won&#8217;t grasp the full significance. Sometimes to see the forest, one needs to look at some of the trees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kRf9fGSYVgM?si=7JlGcvssdvFANGuc\" 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\/kUVkXAIJAME?si=qShiuoH_YU694hr1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/not-justice-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as usual on a Monday, I slept quite late. And today is the day of the &#8220;meeting&#8221; at Quantico. I may just sleep late again. I&#8217;d rather not even be awake, let alone reading about it, while Hogsbreath desecrates Quantico with his presence. Well, this (Politico) is interesting. Not, I would say, surprising, but <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/open-thread-september-30-2025\/' 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":[4355,5151,4111,5146,4077,4069,6713,3811,6051],"class_list":["post-57700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-billionaires","tag-cats","tag-hunger","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-influence","tag-personal","tag-resistance","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\/57700","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=57700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57700\/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=57700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}