{"id":57861,"date":"2025-10-25T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57861"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:45:26","slug":"open-thread-october-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/25\/open-thread-october-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 25 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was very tired out, and yesterday&#8217;s thread wasn&#8217;t posted. It is now. Also, Trinette came by after her work day ended. She is going home over the weekend, so isn&#8217;t available for Sunday. I told her to watch out for ICE agents. Also, it took a bit longer than usual, but my ballot has been received and counted- I got the emails confirming that. And the Social Security COLA will be 2.8% for 2026 (assuming we still have Social Security then.) If you receive Social Security, you probably already know that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about everything every First Lady has done, even just in my lifetime, but I know enough to know that First Ladies are generally not idle trophy wives. I didn&#8217;t know how much of their history happened in the East Wing. I doubt whether anyone, least of all <s>Melanoma<\/s> Melania, cares whether she has an office space. But I do care whether other First Ladies, even some Republican ones, have office space, and about their accomplishments. Someone needs to tell the Mango Menace that he doesn&#8217;t need a ballroom &#8211; he has more ball room than he could ever possibly need, in his pants.<\/p>\n<p>There are always multiple stories in the <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/how-little-we-really-know-about-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Memo<\/a>, san this is no exception. The headliner concerns what the Nectarine Napoleon is up to in Latin America, and that is not getting a lot of coverage yet, although it appears to be escalating. But there is more, including snippets about Jamie Raskin and Jeff Merkley, so you may want to read on.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XtX6x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ICEstapo<\/a> isn&#8217;t gestapo-y enough for the Cantaloupe Caligula. He wants to build one with for more jurisdiction and scope.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUIpXo3v6MA?si=N4UF0ohIS7T-SY5q\" 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\/Ng6bWy1BaUc?si=lM_TNr8fl0q-XvoS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legacies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legacies.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legacies-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legacies-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legacies-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was very tired out, and yesterday&#8217;s thread wasn&#8217;t posted. It is now. Also, Trinette came by after her work day ended. She is going home over the weekend, so isn&#8217;t available for Sunday. I told her to watch out for ICE agents. Also, it took a bit longer than usual, but my ballot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/25\/open-thread-october-25-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,6789,6786,6790,3866,6787,6785,3811,6788,5858,6171],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-east-wing","tag-federal-police","tag-first-ladies","tag-history","tag-latin-america","tag-legacies","tag-personal","tag-short-takes","tag-the-courts","tag-white-house","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\/57861","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=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/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=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}