{"id":58153,"date":"2025-12-09T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58153"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:42:49","slug":"open-thread-december-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/open-thread-december-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 9 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Jasmine Crockett announced a Senate bid, and Colin Allred announced a run for the House. Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/american-conversations-marc-elias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Elias<\/a> argues National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission before the Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/albany-georgia-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sick in a Hospital Town&#8221;<\/a> is a joint project of Pro Publica and Theater of War. It is a five part series (or will be eventually). You can read it now or listen as a podcast &#8211; both are available at the link. To read parts 2 through five, keep scrolling down past the photos.<\/p>\n<p>From a DUer who got it from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10143578319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>. It is outrageous (so it must be Tuesday.) It&#8217;s harder to oppose evil when one&#8217;s government is all for it.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware of the group featured in the article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/anti-trump-former-republicans-have-a-multimillion-dollar-plan-to-save-house-democrats-00680114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> (referred by Liza Donnelly), because I get Steve Schmidt&#8217;s Substack newsletter, and you&#8217;ll remember his project a white ago of posting and projecting images of Stephen Miller like &#8220;Wanted&#8221; posters all over DC &#8211; that was the SAM. But the more publicity the group gets, the more it can do. So I&#8217;m glad to see it here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2McI_gjUto?si=x1aWMEmEArTG4lQW\" 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\/Nv4L9_CrKxc?si=i8EJnF-sg-n47ZiJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linus.png 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linus-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linus-150x98.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linus-768x500.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Jasmine Crockett announced a Senate bid, and Colin Allred announced a run for the House. Today, Mark Elias argues National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission before the Supreme Court &#8220;Sick in a Hospital Town&#8221; is a joint project of Pro Publica and Theater of War. 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