{"id":59070,"date":"2026-04-04T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59070"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:17:55","slug":"open-thread-april-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/04\/open-thread-april-4-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 4 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Adam Klasfeld interviewed my man Phil Weiser &#8211; my state Attorney General (who is running for Governor) on the 64 or 65 cases in which our state is fighting the Regime, and also on the resentencing of Tina Peters &#8211; why it was decided to do it, and why it&#8217;s unlikely to get her out of prison any sooner than the old sentence. It took about 28 minutes. I&#8217;m not asking anyone to listen (or read the transcript), but am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allrisenews.com\/p\/trump-voting-eo-phil-weiser-ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharing the link<\/a> in case anyone wants to do so.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/endangered-species-god-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a>. Humans have survived so many natural an man-made disasters over the billions of years since the earth was made that I expect we will survive this too. But &#8211; we may end up wishing we hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/jSwWO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>. Quick quote: &#8220;In the past several years, the phrase &#8216;alpha male&#8217; has seeped into the language around us, like the contamination of an underground aquifer.&#8221; These techniques are basically brainwashing. The techniques can be used for good &#8211; but rarely are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/memories-of-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Memories of Vietnam&#8221; &#8211; so I am not the only one experiencing those memories.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvNw8o3LkJo?si=YBQi0VNMFolf_KQD\" 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\/2Y1iM5ycl34?si=mEVm35_sPvIyBTdY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bondi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bondi.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bondi-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bondi-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bondi-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Adam Klasfeld interviewed my man Phil Weiser &#8211; my state Attorney General (who is running for Governor) on the 64 or 65 cases in which our state is fighting the Regime, and also on the resentencing of Tina Peters &#8211; why it was decided to do it, and why it&#8217;s unlikely to get her <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/04\/open-thread-april-4-2026\/' 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":[4355,4111,3723,4344,7285,7284,5947,3874,3811,7286,3792,3962,7283],"class_list":["post-59070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-colorado","tag-extinction","tag-insecurity","tag-masculinity","tag-pam-bondi","tag-personal","tag-phil-weiser","tag-robert-reich","tag-vietnam","tag-wealth-tax-facts","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\/59070","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=59070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59070\/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=59070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}