{"id":57996,"date":"2025-11-14T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57996"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:46:44","slug":"open-thread-november-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/14\/open-thread-november-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 14 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, watching Harry Litman<\/a>‘s video on “Is It Legal To Pardon Insurrectionists), or at least the 15 minutes an unpaid subscriber can watch, I found myself thinking some things I’m not proud of, such as, “If it was possible to kill Jane Stanford and no one knew it for a hundred years, in large part because she was already suffering from old age to the point that her death surprised no one…” and “s combination of morphine and belladonna – death from morphine poisoning is easily recognized because pinpoint pupils, but belladonna enlarges the pupils, making the death appear natural.” Yeah, too many Agatha Christie\/John Dickson Carr\/Ngaio Marsh\/Ellery Queen (and so many others) novels. Sigh. FDR had Smedley Butler. But he also had – or I should say the nation had – an honorable Congress that would investigate and stop that plot. We don’t have that.<\/p>\n

I’m essentially sharing this from The Root<\/a> for the last paragraph, which is a warning. I don’t have a clue what to do about it in advance to mitigate it – but I do take it seriously.<\/p>\n

This from the Conversation<\/a> looks like something which would be really good to know – and maybe even to save.<\/p>\n

Sharing Robert Hubbell<\/a> today because his premise may well be the most important thing we need to do, both as individuals and as a party. And it won’t be easy.<\/p>\n