{"id":58261,"date":"2025-12-25T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58261"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:01:28","slug":"open-thread-december-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/open-thread-december-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 25 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I watched (but mostly listened to) a conversation<\/a> with Mary Trump and Ruth Ben-Ghiat (as I’m sure you know, an expert – maybe the expert – on “strong men” governments). It was about 23 minutes – shorter than I expected – but highly informative. (just in case anyone wonders, my substitutes for yoga and getting out into nature are knotting and computer solitaire.)<\/p>\n

Well, this is welcome news<\/a>. Ohio has a Democratic Congresswoman who has a spine. That probably isn’t news to SpyKat. But it’s always nice to see a Congrescritter from one’s own state getting national attention for a righteous reason. I know I was stoked when Jason Crow was on the Jan6 Committee, and again when he was one of the six in what most people probably think of as “Mark Kelly’s video.”<\/p>\n

I’m sneaking in a second video by treating this as an article – which, if I hadn’t tripped over a video, I would have had to do as an article. Judge Boasberg<\/a> appears to be a national treasure. It’s 15 minutes, and worth it.<\/p>\n

And here’s another judge who may well be a national treasure. Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.<\/a> of Nashville.<\/p>\n