{"id":58723,"date":"2026-02-07T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58723"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:37:03","slug":"open-thread-february-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/open-thread-february-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 7 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did my best to get this post finished and up and a dolid head start on tomorrow&#8217;s and still get to bed early. I wish I could say it was easy, but I don&#8217;t knowingly lie to y&#8217;all. But somehow I managed.<\/p>\n<p>I still just have a landline myself. So it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that I find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/02\/04\/tin-can-kids-landline-cellphone-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I realize it&#8217;s hard to live without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/amazon-tax-breaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>. But it can be done. If you can&#8217;t find a specialty online store which sells direct, you can check out etsy and ebay. You might still end up enriching a MAGAt without knowing it &#8211; but it will be one individual MAGAt, not a billionaire. I can live with that.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/O0mgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a>. You could probably see it without, but it would be tedious. It should be no surprise that red states are facilitating, not merely accepting, right wing cruelty. Not surprising &#8211; just disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>This is JoJo from Jerz, in case anyone has missed her. The &#8220;Siren Podcast&#8221; comprises her, Brooklyn Dad Defiant (BDD) and the occasional guest. NSFW.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEnWF3MaxRE?si=cERdnDkAFYAzuEiA\" 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\/YT1gN66yMzI?si=o4AqIRvwElNIPAwK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closer-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did my best to get this post finished and up and a dolid head start on tomorrow&#8217;s and still get to bed early. I wish I could say it was easy, but I don&#8217;t knowingly lie to y&#8217;all. But somehow I managed. I still just have a landline myself. So it shouldn&#8217;t be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/open-thread-february-7-2026\/' 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":[7113,7115,4340,4355,6346,4531,4392,5167,3811,7114],"class_list":["post-58723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-jojo","tag-alternative-phones","tag-amazon","tag-animals","tag-deportations","tag-dogs","tag-fascism","tag-gop-cruelty","tag-personal","tag-tax-breaks","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\/58723","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=58723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58723\/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=58723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}