{"id":58088,"date":"2025-11-29T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58088"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:45:30","slug":"open-thread-november-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/open-thread-november-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 29 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I really felt like I needed a day off. And my inbox didn&#8217;t help &#8211; it was crammed, but mostly with Black Friday crap. I didn&#8217;t give in to that impulse completely, but this is short compared to usual. Tomorrow I will go see Virgil,\u00a0 andof course check in when I get home.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Black Friday deal, but it&#8217;s from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/trump-will-hate-this-7f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Borowitz<\/a>. And it will give you a smile whether you are in the market or not.<\/p>\n<p>This is today&#8217;s news video. Substack videos are mostly long (too long for PP), but this one is just 4\u00bd minutes. <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/inbox\/post\/180182992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm Nance<\/a> has thoughts on the shooting of the National Guards.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unusual animal to befriend in distress, but some people have a big enough heart and don&#8217;t have a phobia.I couldn&#8217;t do it &#8211; but I can applaud it.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOzex1XrZNc?si=OQpLjzBK3j2pQf88\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trinette got this from a friend and forwarded it to me &#8211; something to post on your front door in self-defense.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/charge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/charge.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/charge-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/charge-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/charge-768x587.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I really felt like I needed a day off. And my inbox didn&#8217;t help &#8211; it was crammed, but mostly with Black Friday crap. I didn&#8217;t give in to that impulse completely, but this is short compared to usual. Tomorrow I will go see Virgil,\u00a0 andof course check in when I get home. This <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/open-thread-november-29-2025\/' 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":[6431,4355,5228,4921,6894,3811,5875,6893,6892],"class_list":["post-58088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-andy-borowitz","tag-animals","tag-arachnids","tag-books","tag-malcolm-nance","tag-personal","tag-shooting","tag-signs","tag-soliciting","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\/58088","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=58088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/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=58088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}