{"id":58806,"date":"2026-02-19T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58806"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:30:26","slug":"open-thread-february-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/open-thread-february-19-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 19 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the event map<\/a> for the No Kings demonstration planned for March 28 was posted.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/68KAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever<\/a> &#8211; Yes, it&#8217;s a &#8220;We told you so,&#8221; but sadly it&#8217;s right on. If only the US would vote for a woman &#8211; we&#8217;d have our candidate. But they won&#8217;t &#8211; and they will not be ready to do so by 2028<\/p>\n<p>Also archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/LR9c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever<\/a>, this one is in regard to pedophile protectors &#8211; this time at Deutsche Bank. (They are also money launderers, BTW).<\/p>\n<p>This is a short (9\u00bd minutes) excerpt from a much longer video. I think we have all already figure out the point she makes about the evil elite. But what she says about why James Talarico terrifies the regime so much was news to me. And, I think, important. (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oiTJ7Pz_59A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s about 15 minutes<\/a> if you didn&#8217;t see it and want to.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/encd88MywEg?si=ZuWI5N5Y9RvE_WMy\" 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\/IOGdwxmJGJI?si=EJZuYok8vf2csJHz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bondi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bondi.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bondi-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bondi-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bondi-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, the event map for the No Kings demonstration planned for March 28 was posted. Archived from The Lever &#8211; Yes, it&#8217;s a &#8220;We told you so,&#8221; but sadly it&#8217;s right on. If only the US would vote for a woman &#8211; we&#8217;d have our candidate. But they won&#8217;t &#8211; and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/open-thread-february-19-2026\/' 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":[4355,4049,4111,7148,3727,7147,5170,6471,3799],"class_list":["post-58806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-aoc","tag-cats","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-fdr","tag-james-talarico","tag-money-laundering","tag-no-kings","tag-stephen-colbert","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\/58806","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=58806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58806\/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=58806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}