{"id":59127,"date":"2026-04-15T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59127"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:34:38","slug":"open-thread-april-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/open-thread-april-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 15 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday was the fourth anniversary of “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” (Malcolm was there, in Ukraine.) And “go fuck yourself” was not a completely accurate translation from Ukrainian. (“Go find a dick” is closer.) Hopefully remembering that can inspire us. Maybe not as much as it inspired Ukraine at the time, but there is a whole lot of room beneath that extremely high level. Also, Eric Swalwell<\/a> announced he will resign from Congress but provided no effective date.<\/p>\n

Here is incontrovertible evidence that some Muslims are better Christians than some Christians – translated from Farsi (not by me): \u201cYour Excellency Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex), on behalf of the great nation of Iran, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency and declare that the desecration of Jesus (peace be upon him), the Prophet of peace and brotherhood, is unacceptable to any free person. I wish glory for you from Allah.\u201d – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (quoted by Daily Kos)<\/p>\n

What the Brennan Center for Justice<\/a> is doing now to protect the midterms in November, by Michael Waldman.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for an exact moment when we lost the Iran war, the closest you can probably come is the moment we started it. MajGen Paul Eaton (Ret), the leader of VoteVets<\/a> analyses pretty much everything we have done wrong, which is pretty much everything we have done. Unless, of course, you are an insider trader, in which case you can laugh all the way to your Trumpcoin.<\/p>\n

Murdoch beats Trump’s suit<\/a> on WSJ’s Epstein expos\u00e9: What’s next?<\/p>\n