{"id":57991,"date":"2025-11-13T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57991"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:45:43","slug":"open-thread-november-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/13\/open-thread-november-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 13 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I got to my main email just about the time Grijalva was sworn in. Yes, that was kind of late in the day, but before I check my main email, I check the old one, and look up the times of sunrise and sunset and record them, and I take my morning meds and make coffee, and even getting dressed is not zero time, plus it’s two hours earlier here. And it’s nice to get up to a little good news, since it is mostly anything but. Also, none of the DOJ’s Epstein Files were released, but three emails obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee<\/a> directly from the Epstein estate were.<\/p>\n

In view of the fact that many people are losing their minds over this or that in it, I thought it would be good for us all to turn to Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> and get a view of everything that is in it. After that, losing one’s mind will still be on the table (including for me.)<\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a> has coverage of an ICE arrest from June but given that Veterans’ Day was just a couple of days ago seems appropriate to revisit now.<\/p>\n

This from Axios<\/a> reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode – “Eye of the Beholder<\/a>“, to be precise. I was a big fan of TZ, and was 15 when this episode first aired. I think it shocked me more than any other episode of TZ- and I certainly never expected it to play out in my lifetime. But here we are.<\/p>\n

Robert Reich’s series to share widely as he requests
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