{"id":58911,"date":"2026-03-07T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58911"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:16:19","slug":"open-thread-march-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/07\/open-thread-march-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 7 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it snowed here. It was predicted &#8211; for about a fifth of an inch &#8211; it looks more like a half inch to me &#8211; but that&#8217;s just looking out the window. I didn&#8217;t measure it. The video today is long &#8211; about 48 minutes &#8211; but the subject is so huge, I don&#8217;t know how it could have been much shorter I won&#8217;t get upset if people choose to skip it. Just keep the title in the back of your mind.<\/p>\n<p>This is a supplement to the daily <a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmnance.substack.com\/p\/we-could-be-at-war-in-iran-for-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Chalet of the Two Spies&#8221;<\/a> video update on the war in Iran. It&#8217;s no surprise to me. I don&#8217;t personally remember World War II (I was born before VJ Day, but only by days), but I remember Korea, and Vietnam, and Desert Storm, and I think it&#8217;s safe to say that all wars are subject to Hofstadter&#8217;s law (&#8220;Everything takes longer than you think it will, even after you have considered Hofstadter&#8217;s law.&#8221;) Doug and I went to the same high school &#8211; I graduated just before he moved to town when his father became a professor at Stanford. But I did meet him at the high school bridge club, which I kept attending because I was not good enough at it to play by tournament rules, which the university club required. (I never got terribly good.) I only have something like 3\/8 of a master point.)<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that there is anyone who reads here who has not noticed this happening. But <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/a-pro-trump-mega-media-monopoly-emerges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> says &#8220;All this has happened so suddenly that most Americans still haven\u2019t noticed,&#8221; and he&#8217;s sadly probably correct, which means there are a lot of people who need to learn this. Please share it if you can.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, good grief. WTF next? Will Ukraine ever catch a break? Certainly not from our country in the clutches of the Mango Monster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-polytics\/4098764-detention-of-ukrainians-in-hungary-is-part-of-orbans-blackmail-and-election-campaign-says-sybiha.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrinform<\/a> is on Substack, so I subscribed to it. One more new email every day, but we&#8217;ll never learn stuff like this from American media.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Sheldon Whitehouse Details Report On Alleged Ties Between Epstein, Trump, And Russia<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InWPxsba878?si=4FKad_vgoDMyWBRo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2_kr41F5io?si=XuPbecTtJ_tTG33K\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1st-last.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1st-last.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1st-last-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1st-last-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1st-last-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it snowed here. It was predicted &#8211; for about a fifth of an inch &#8211; it looks more like a half inch to me &#8211; but that&#8217;s just looking out the window. I didn&#8217;t measure it. The video today is long &#8211; about 48 minutes &#8211; but the subject is so huge, I don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/07\/open-thread-march-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":[7185,4355,4111,5731,7189,7187,4748,5589,3811,3792,3838,7186,3805,7188],"class_list":["post-58911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-america-first","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-hungary","tag-iran-war","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-media","tag-monopolies","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-russia","tag-sheldon-whitehouse","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrinform","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\/58911","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=58911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58911\/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=58911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}