{"id":58159,"date":"2025-12-10T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58159"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:38:16","slug":"open-thread-december-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/open-thread-december-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 10 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/showtime-boasberg-summons-key-doj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">followup to my second article(s)<\/a>, we learned that Judge Boasberg has reached the subpoena stage. I don&#8217;t think he set out to be a hero I think he is just royally pissed &#8211; but if this continues, his name will end up in the history books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/dems-poised-to-fund-trumps-war-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> will disappoint you. It certainly disappointed me.<\/p>\n<p>I get TPM&#8217;s newsletter daily, and it&#8217;s always good, and usually fairly comprehensive, but there are days when it&#8217;s up to the overwhelming level. Monday was such a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/trumps-alternate-reality-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Litman<\/a> wants to reassure you that you are not crazy &#8211; it&#8217;s the regime which is crazy. And he brings receipts.<\/p>\n<p>This video is 11 minutes, and yes, that is long for here. I have watched\/listened three times, and in a way it&#8217;s information you can find elsewhere, but what it does that others mostly don&#8217;t is &#8220;connect the dots.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJYdP_IkY5g?si=N6Fi3TQELmYUWsen\" 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\/ielAprLyvWg?si=Hyy1Wu3hOlKVCO0u\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pigs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pigs.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pigs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pigs-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pigs-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in a followup to my second article(s), we learned that Judge Boasberg has reached the subpoena stage. I don&#8217;t think he set out to be a hero I think he is just royally pissed &#8211; but if this continues, his name will end up in the history books. This will disappoint you. It certainly <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/open-thread-december-10-2025\/' 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":[6925,4355,4111,4531,6924,6330,6927,3811,6923,6926],"class_list":["post-58159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-alternate-reality","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-harry-litman","tag-heather-cox-richardson","tag-ndaa","tag-personal","tag-pigs","tag-talking-points-memo","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\/58159","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=58159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58159\/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=58159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}