{"id":58679,"date":"2026-01-30T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58679"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:20:46","slug":"open-thread-january-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/open-thread-january-30-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 30 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wWKSoxG1K7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/event_campaigns\/demand-target-take-a-stand-iceoutofmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MayDay has an action<\/a> going for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/medicare-advantage-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical professionals<\/a> are well aware of this. When I was checking in to rehab in &#8217;23 and was asked whether I had &#8220;Advantage,&#8221; I said something like &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have Advantage if they paid me to take it,&#8221; And the response was &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2026\/01\/minnesota-daycares-harassment-fear-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE and CBP<\/a> are just the tip of the iceberg in Minnesota. MAGA has always been full of vigilantes. Does anyone besides me wonder why, if they actually believe and trust the Saffron Sauron&#8217;s Keystone Cops, they think they have to handle it themselves?<\/p>\n<p>I wholeheartedly agree with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/maine\/2026-01-26\/how-a-westbrook-business-and-community-members-are-trying-to-keep-workers-safe-from-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the business owner<\/a> who says the &#8220;law and order&#8221; is not what is happening. But I disagree that it isn&#8217;t politics, because all politics is moral (or immoral.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcefFTXUcxU?si=0Vdf9bOGRo7Tsn9R\" 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\/s6jJF0BcXtw?si=IeeXe3cfRie03cqw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/twins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/twins.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/twins-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/twins-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/twins-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Bruce Springsteen. And MayDay has an action going for tomorrow. Medical professionals are well aware of this. When I was checking in to rehab in &#8217;23 and was asked whether I had &#8220;Advantage,&#8221; I said something like &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have Advantage if they paid me to take it,&#8221; And the response was &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/open-thread-january-30-2026\/' 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":[4832,4355,7083,5259,4531,4077,6247,7084,4367,3718,3792,3714],"class_list":["post-58679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-animals","tag-day-care","tag-dhs","tag-dogs","tag-ice","tag-maine","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-minnesota","tag-music","tag-robert-reich","tag-video","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\/58679","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=58679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58679\/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=58679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}