{"id":58950,"date":"2026-03-14T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58950"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:27:18","slug":"open-thread-march-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/open-thread-march-14-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 14 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today being Pi Day, and the rest of the news being so grim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/radio\/puzzler\/roman-sticks-and-stuff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a mathematical puzzle<\/a> might be in order.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I discovered something &#8211; I knew Jim Acosta was on Substack, and I knew that S teve Schmidt was sometimes a guest of his, but I had no idea that Steve was going to be a regular guest every Friday, nor that they were calling this &#8220;Oh, Schmidt, It&#8217;s Friday.&#8221;\u00a0 (Gotta laugh so you don&#8217;t cry, right?) Apparently the US death toll is up to 11 now. Or was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/black-america-must-know-the-terrifying-success-of-proje-2000094097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From The Root.<\/a> I figure that what Black people need to know, we all need to know.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the shooting I mentioned yesterday, and another shooting, and a hacking, were not home-grown but Iranian retaliation. <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/trumps-war-reaches-americas-shores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Hubbell<\/a> expands on this with multiple citations. He then goes into other ramifications of the war, also with citations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrariannews.org\/p\/is-trump-building-concentration-camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Contrarian<\/a> &#8211; a history and definition of Concentration Camps &#8211; so that if anyone tries to tell you they aren&#8217;t, you can prove that they are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ax6NUTSN9Fs?si=TBXGp5mKIMNF8L2T\" 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\/7-RXrFbCdP4?si=qqkRBLjvBLvY4ksd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fall-of-duty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fall-of-duty.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fall-of-duty-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fall-of-duty-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fall-of-duty-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today being Pi Day, and the rest of the news being so grim, a mathematical puzzle might be in order. Yesterday, I discovered something &#8211; I knew Jim Acosta was on Substack, and I knew that S teve Schmidt was sometimes a guest of his, but I had no idea that Steve was going to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/open-thread-march-14-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,7214,4111,6333,7212,6113,3725,3826,7216,7215,7213,3777],"class_list":["post-58950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-knowledge","tag-cats","tag-concentration-camps","tag-gop-narcissism","tag-gop-stupidity","tag-holiday","tag-iran","tag-puzzles","tag-retaliation","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-war","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\/58950","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=58950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}