{"id":58001,"date":"2025-11-15T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58001"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:47:07","slug":"open-thread-november-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/open-thread-november-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 15 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, TPM reported that Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Abency has made a criminal referral to the DOJ of Eric Swalwell for &#8220;mortgage fraud&#8221; (the same thing James Comey, Tish James, and Adam Schiff have been charged with). Swalwell has been expecting this and ia probably prepared for it. But it&#8217;s syill an annoyance, and a huge waste of timw and money, both for Swalwell and for the Government (and that&#8217;s our money.)<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I feel like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/12\/2353447\/-A-Kennedy-returns-to-the-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> who are retiring should stay while some of the ones who are not &#8211; should. OK, Nancy is over 80 and deserves a rest, and I grant Jerry Nadler is 78, but he surely seems younger. It kind of depends on his replacement. Which is why this profile matters. If you&#8217;re going to replace someone like Nadler, let&#8217;s replace him with someone who has equal potential.-<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should have saved <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/the-little-amicus-brief-that-could\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this for Sunday<\/a> &#8211; it is good &#8211; and it&#8217;s easy to grasp the point &#8211; but getting there took a whole lot of digging, so much so that just reading it is almost tiring. Besides, good news is welcome any time.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh. I saw this in The Root&#8217;s newsletter, and The Root linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/lawsuit\/hospital-staff-killed-2-year-old-after-deleting-a-critical-decimal-point-from-medicine-dosage-levels-making-them-10-times-higher-than-ordered-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law and Crime<\/a>, which had more medical detail. This happened in Gainesville, Florida (not surprisingly). It appears there aren&#8217;t a whole lot of people who can be trusted in Florida, including medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OuN1EzUlU2c?si=xHPIxnywucn9s41s\" 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\/TfwN4vltT8E?si=xg2nBr3bd6h-siys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/penny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/penny.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/penny-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/penny-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/penny-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, TPM reported that Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Abency has made a criminal referral to the DOJ of Eric Swalwell for &#8220;mortgage fraud&#8221; (the same thing James Comey, Tish James, and Adam Schiff have been charged with). Swalwell has been expecting this and ia probably prepared for it. But it&#8217;s syill <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/open-thread-november-15-2025\/' 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":[5745,6845,4355,6847,4531,3781,4515,3811,5858,6846,5438],"class_list":["post-58001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-age","tag-american-women","tag-animals","tag-currency","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-new-york","tag-personal","tag-the-courts","tag-vindictive-prosecutions","tag-wrongful-death","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\/58001","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=58001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58001\/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=58001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}