{"id":58641,"date":"2026-01-24T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58641"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:33:13","slug":"open-thread-january-24-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/open-thread-january-24-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 24 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, We did get some snow &#8211; not a lot, but some. And we&#8217;re due to get more today. After the opera, I&#8217;ll need to go out and look at it, and maybe try to brush or scrape some off before overnight. Not that the predicted temperatures are in my favor, but anything I can manage to do to alleviate it has got to help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/ice-detains-children-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a> addresses ICE&#8217;s use of children as &#8220;bait&#8221; to trap their parents, and then keeping the children detained anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/again-what-should-we-do-about-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> posts the photo of one child (Liam, aged 5) alluded to above. He then discusses the responses to some questions he asked readers about what the most effective strategy would be to resist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/breaking-the-fourth-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> discusses the Fourth Amendment and the blatant violations of it which ICE is committing. Sorry I don&#8217;t include any of my own opinions with these articles &#8211; but they wouldn&#8217;t be printable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_m_tBD1Gxto?si=sdDkGrBWDpVjDUoJ\" 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\/eFmdE0QVHUo?si=-COuZVvIx-thCsPm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/masks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/masks.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/masks-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/masks-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/masks-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, We did get some snow &#8211; not a lot, but some. And we&#8217;re due to get more today. After the opera, I&#8217;ll need to go out and look at it, and maybe try to brush or scrape some off before overnight. Not that the predicted temperatures are in my favor, but anything I can <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/open-thread-january-24-2025-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[7065,4355,4117,4467,4531,4357,4077,7063,7064,4367,3811],"class_list":["post-58641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-bait","tag-animals","tag-canada","tag-children","tag-dogs","tag-fourth-amendment","tag-ice","tag-lizard-people","tag-mark-carney","tag-minnesota","tag-personal","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\/58641","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=58641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}