{"id":58076,"date":"2025-11-27T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58076"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:56:33","slug":"open-thread-november-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/27\/open-thread-november-27-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 27 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had about as many emails as usual, but far more than usual of them were selling things, so I ended up with less than usual to read. It was a nice break. And there was this one &#8211; Hoo Boy, is<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/on6aPnm7Cuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this a powerful<\/a> endorsement! (It came in an email but I&#8217;m linking straight to the ad itself.) Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/tisLG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this news<\/a> broke. I apologize for putting a damper on your holiday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a>: &#8220;How to Get Rid of Citizens United.&#8221; Starting at the state level.:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/doge-has-officially-been-doged-trump-administration-confirms-department-no-longer-exists\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a>, referred by &#8220;Daily Dose of Democracy.&#8221; I suspect all it really means is that the Kumquat King now has enough of his own installed that he no longer needs outside help to fire people.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily I don&#8217;t repost <a href=\"https:\/\/johnpavlovitz.substack.com\/p\/a-remove-the-regime-recap-a-nsfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pavloviyz<\/a>. But this is not his usual &#8211; it a piece of NSFW satire that I think everyone can relate to. I personally particularly enjoyed &#8220;No one cares how many followers you have. (Trust me, followers are overrated anyway.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guest video from Americans for Financial Reform<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Qrgq53EVVs?si=nG5Iq8tAqmdiBwCG\" 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\/FvRzPZGatHg?si=rfJ1Qxgiv-LWMXtP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-scaled.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-scaled.webp 2560w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-300x233.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-1024x794.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-150x116.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-768x595.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-1536x1190.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T-Day-2048x1587.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had about as many emails as usual, but far more than usual of them were selling things, so I ended up with less than usual to read. It was a nice break. And there was this one &#8211; Hoo Boy, is this a powerful endorsement! (It came in an email but I&#8217;m linking <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/27\/open-thread-november-27-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,6889,4650,6234,3781,3725,3811,3706,5875],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-citizens-united","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-doge","tag-elections","tag-holiday","tag-personal","tag-satire","tag-shooting","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\/58076","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=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}