{"id":57932,"date":"2025-11-04T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57932"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:17:21","slug":"open-thread-november-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/open-thread-november-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 4 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I opened my email, and it looks like I&#8217;m going to be doing more knitting this week and next. PBS Great Performances will be streaming &#8220;The Barber of Seville&#8221;. Cedille Records (RBG&#8217;s son) will be releasing a new CD and streaming from another, both with only composers killed or exiled during the Holocaust (good thing I just ordered and received 4 boxes of tissues).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/10\/27\/air-force-suicide-deaths-maintainers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Intercept article<\/a> didn&#8217;t pop up a subscription pitch for me &#8211; possibly because it&#8217;s the first of the month? Anyway, I have held this for a bit in the chaos, but it does need to be known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/november-1-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> from last Friday is worth reading if only for the Gatsby quotation, in which Nick specified that he was speaking of &#8220;Tom and Daisy [Buchanan]&#8217;, but which Richardson rightly extends to the whole MAGA party. It&#8217;s sad but true. (Totally off topic, but I just realized that she and I have the same surname &#8211; mine just uses the nickname instead of the full first name, and has condensed the spelling.)<\/p>\n<p>I posted last week a preview of the Supreme Court season, but this <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-4d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221;<\/a> specifically looks at a Nectarine Napoleon&#8217;s tariff case (one of them) and analyzes what exactly he is trying to accomplish,<\/p>\n<p>HCR videos generally run at least 20 minutes and usually considerably more. So I thought I&#8217;d better grab this six minute one while it was still current.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CKWktnWPHg0?si=DhTgFoiT5hb40Wi1\" 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\/kwpdn31-Pv8?si=6RGARQNZxHPztnky\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed.png 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-150x147.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closed-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I opened my email, and it looks like I&#8217;m going to be doing more knitting this week and next. PBS Great Performances will be streaming &#8220;The Barber of Seville&#8221;. Cedille Records (RBG&#8217;s son) will be releasing a new CD and streaming from another, both with only composers killed or exiled during the Holocaust (good <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/open-thread-november-4-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4408,4531,6330,3811,5982,4619,3740,6813],"class_list":["post-57932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-armed-forces","tag-dogs","tag-heather-cox-richardson","tag-personal","tag-scrotus","tag-shutdown","tag-snap","tag-suicide-crisis","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\/57932","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=57932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}