{"id":57773,"date":"2025-10-10T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57773"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:12:28","slug":"open-thread-october-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/open-thread-october-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 10 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep and ended up getting up early.\u00a0 It would be nice if I had therefore accomplished more than usual, but I&#8217;m afraid I didn&#8217;t, except for maybe a little knitting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-most-ominous-utterance-yet-made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> is correct. Stephen Miller doesn&#8217;t generally worry about saying the quiet part out loud, or anything outrageous. He shows his hate freely. If Steve is correct as to what happened, and I don&#8217;t know why he wouldn&#8217;t be, then what was said before the cutoff should indeed be truly terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Other outlets have covered <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/10\/epstein-files-standoff-adelita-grijalva-swearing-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this situation<\/a>, and there&#8217;s been a lot said about it (for instance, at Democratic Underground, where the point was made that, in the past, when the Speaker was &#8220;not available&#8221;, new members have been sworn in by a Supreme Court justice). But this is the deepest dive I have seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/trump-true-to-form-looks-for-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> addresses the issue of federal employees ever getting paid after the shutdown. With any sane President, this would never have been ab issue. But then, if we had a sane President, we likely would not be in a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Guest video from Robert Reich &#8211; because he requested it be shared.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31X8vrfgHqs?si=sYTgwuEZiUvxA08N\" 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\/a16dlc9OSr0?si=c-IwQngg-PNvz5S2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/disinfo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/disinfo.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/disinfo-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/disinfo-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/disinfo-768x615.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep and ended up getting up early.\u00a0 It would be nice if I had therefore accomplished more than usual, but I&#8217;m afraid I didn&#8217;t, except for maybe a little knitting. Steve Schmidt is correct. Stephen Miller doesn&#8217;t generally worry about saying the quiet part out loud, or anything outrageous. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/open-thread-october-10-2025\/' 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":[6746,4355,4614,6743,4111,4640,6744,3811,3792,4619,5205,6745],"class_list":["post-57773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-plenary","tag-animals","tag-arizona","tag-back-pay","tag-cats","tag-disinformation","tag-grijalva","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-shutdown","tag-speaker-of-the-house","tag-steven-miller","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\/57773","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=57773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773\/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=57773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}