{"id":57787,"date":"2025-10-13T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57787"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:12:38","slug":"open-thread-october-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/open-thread-october-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 13 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by. It&#8217;s always good to see her. Otherwise, a quiet day. It&#8217;s definitely starting to feel like autumn &#8211; which is OK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/why-has-the-media-become-so-vulnerable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> on the vulnerability of the media. And, yes, we have the tool &#8211; the anti-trust act, but it needs to be used. Not just on the media. On just about anything.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/stephen-miller-has-central-role-probing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> has several stories, but the first one is the one I&#8217;m posting it for.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FcpXD-IGOwg?si=L7OgK7_QTE-9jguU\" 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\/6TDmsO1xGOc?si=HbfEYGe1QgSxRa24\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOP-gdn-o-pedo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOP-gdn-o-pedo.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOP-gdn-o-pedo-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOP-gdn-o-pedo-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by. It&#8217;s always good to see her. Otherwise, a quiet day. It&#8217;s definitely starting to feel like autumn &#8211; which is OK. Robert Reich on the vulnerability of the media. And, yes, we have the tool &#8211; the anti-trust act, but it needs to be used. Not just on the media. On <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/open-thread-october-13-2025\/' 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":[4355,6310,4531,6565,5589,3811,3792,4619,6466,6754],"class_list":["post-57787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-blame","tag-dogs","tag-epstein","tag-monopolies","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-shutdown","tag-stephen-miller","tag-the-media","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\/57787","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=57787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57787\/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=57787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}