{"id":58369,"date":"2026-01-09T00:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58369"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:56:51","slug":"open-thread-january-9-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/09\/open-thread-january-9-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 9 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I didn’t see any news big enough to supersede the killing of Renee Nicole Good (although the fact that the House passed Jeffries’s discharge petition on ACA subsidies – and then passed the bill – deserves a mention. Now it goes back to the Senate – which today advanced a war powers resolution.) I did watch what I could of a Substack video with Malcolm Nance, Michael Cohen, and JoJo from Jerz (and isn’t that a lineup!) which kept locking up. But what I could see and hear was cathartic. I do want to share something about this death which bothers me. Renee’s six-year-old was born from her first marriage to a soldier who died. She was now married again, to a woman. Her late husband’s father is, I gather, on his way to Minneapolis to collect the child. I am concerned that a custody battle, if it becomes a battle, or if it doesn’t, just taking him away from the only parent he knows could harm him as much or more than the loss of his biological mother. Heather Cox Richardson<\/a>‘s remarks on what happened are well worth listening to if you can spare the time.<\/p>\n

Archived from The Washington Post<\/a> (referred by The Daily Beast), it is IMO a good sign that someone else – particularly someone who has been making money from the regime, is finally fed up. I might add that it required a whole lot of ordinary people to push Avelo to this point. So we do have a voice – at least some of the time.<\/p>\n

A Pro Publica investigation<\/a> found that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is producing enough debris to seriously endanger commercial flights of conventional aircraft. Is anyone surprised?<\/p>\n

The top image for this article from The Conversation<\/a> was (For me) reduced to a miniscule line of type, with the top half cur off. But by right clicking on that line, I was able to open the image in a new tab, and refreshing the page also worked. This, frankly, scares me as much as and maybe more than ICE.<\/p>\n