{"id":58055,"date":"2025-11-24T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58055"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:49:49","slug":"open-thread-november-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/24\/open-thread-november-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 24 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by and we had conversations about family, shopping, and other things.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/11\/amber-czech-welder-murder-tradeswomen-demand-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 19th<\/a>. This kind of thing has been happening for a very long time, although not always quite so deadly. But constant harassment is not exactly a walk in the park. <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crime\/she-is-by-your-toolbox-she-is-gone-man-bludgeoned-20-year-old-co-worker-to-death-because-he-didnt-like-her-deputies-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law and Crime<\/a> says he has a court date today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/11\/21\/the-online-clip-factory-thats-radicalizing-teen-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Marcotte<\/a> at Salon writes about why we can&#8217;t have <s>nice things<\/s> a woman President, and why this will be true for a very long time. Spoiler &#8211; it&#8217;s because there are enough men working very, very hard to keep it that way.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/just-follow-orders-or-obey-the-law-what-us-troops-told-us-about-refusing-illegal-commands-270401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a> is supposed to be encouraging, and in a way it is, but this issue is not an election, it&#8217;s an imperative, and when one starts getting down to the percentage points of changed answers when additional information is provided, I get very nervous indeed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Xox5usGoRs?si=Ut3fYlCOvUSkM32f\" 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\/W_QyJ6jOYTw?si=J30DZ_ZlZ3D1gXK5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bankrupt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bankrupt.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bankrupt-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bankrupt-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bankrupt-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette was by and we had conversations about family, shopping, and other things. From the 19th. This kind of thing has been happening for a very long time, although not always quite so deadly. But constant harassment is not exactly a walk in the park. Law and Crime says he has a court date <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/24\/open-thread-november-24-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,6874,4847,3735,6879,3811,5415],"class_list":["post-58055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-illegal-orders","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-misogyny","tag-moral-bankruptcy","tag-personal","tag-violence","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\/58055","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=58055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58055\/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=58055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}