{"id":58266,"date":"2025-12-25T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58266"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:14:41","slug":"open-thread-december-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/open-thread-december-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 26 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, of course, was Christmas Day. I hope yours was exactly what you wanted it to be. I had a dinner which was special and different without being complicated &#8211; and almost finished another sweater (I should easily finish today &#8211; and start another.) I&#8217;m expecting a package or two &#8211; both too large for the mailbox but small enough to bring in easily. But &#8211; we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/osha-wants-spectacle-to-trump-safety-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever News<\/a>. This quote pretty much says it all: &#8220;Trump workplace regulators say jobs in entertainment, sports, and other fields are too dangerous to be covered by safety protections.&#8221; Of course, there are always derails.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-billion-dollar-drug-was-found-in-easter-island-soil-what-scientists-and-companies-owe-the-indigenous-people-they-studied-250586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a>. The story of rapamycin is fascinating. Treating the subjects like objects (grammatical pun intended) was 100% typical of the time frame, and sadly, probably still happens.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/4Z9kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a>. If you thought all those ICE bounties were going to individual disreputable MAGA insurrectionist bounty hunters &#8211; which would certainly be bad enough &#8211; think again. It&#8217;s worse than that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YysO5Xohhm4?si=j7mKVMVoFXmPq4U0\" 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\/K9KHXl0IVj4?si=u9105dN3ftgZGpRz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/our-tuen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/our-tuen.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/our-tuen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/our-tuen-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, of course, was Christmas Day. I hope yours was exactly what you wanted it to be. I had a dinner which was special and different without being complicated &#8211; and almost finished another sweater (I should easily finish today &#8211; and start another.) I&#8217;m expecting a package or two &#8211; both too large for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/open-thread-december-26-2025\/' 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":[3891,4355,6976,4999,6975,6486,4077,6222,6974,6977,3811,6978,6979],"class_list":["post-58266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-aclu","tag-animals","tag-antibiotics","tag-birds","tag-bounties","tag-greed","tag-ice","tag-medical-research","tag-mistletoe","tag-osha","tag-personal","tag-regulations","tag-worker-safety","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\/58266","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=58266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58266\/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=58266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}