{"id":58400,"date":"2026-01-14T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58400"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:56:30","slug":"open-thread-january-14-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/open-thread-january-14-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 14 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Adam Klasfeld along with Vicki Ward did a live broadcast and saved it as a video which can be seen here<\/a>. I’m not telling you to watch it, because it’s a full hour, and I know not everyone can. But it covers everything. They start with the Mangione cases (did you know there were two, a federal one and a state one in Pennsylvania? I didn’t), and also discuss the Maduro case and the murder in Minnesota, and Lindsey Halligan (whose deadline to explain to the judge is today) and Jerome Powell, and Judge Hellerstein, and I’m probably leaving something out. That is a lot to cover in an hour. (P.S. Here<\/a>‘s the follow-up on Halligan)<\/p>\n

Archived from the Washington Post<\/a>, referred by Talking points Memo, here is an overview of all the ways the Saffron Sauron is looking to ratfuck the midterms. I have no idea how this got past Bezos, but apparently, it did. And I’m citing it – all of it (and it has chapters, sort of.) Perhaps every state (and territory, if applicable) should assign their own National Guard right now to monitor elections in November. I would suggest calling in UN observers, but ICE would probably deport them.<\/p>\n

Mary Trump<\/a> discusses how to navigate the floods of discouraging and increasing overreach from the Executive Branch and how to avoid giving them what they want<\/p>\n

Matt Kerbel (who, along with Chris Bowers, comprises Bowers News Network<\/a>) discusses “Consent of the Governed.” and why, despite havin won the election (by a sliver) this “President” doesn’t have it.<\/p>\n