{"id":59135,"date":"2026-04-16T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59135"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:49:46","slug":"open-thread-april-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/open-thread-april-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 16 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Malcolm Nance apologized for failing to do a scheduled Substack video &#8211; because he had had to do interviews on three BBC entities and on ABC (down under.) Apparently I am far from alone in respecting his experience and analysis (and also his choices of co-hosts &#8211; Jacob has been missing for three says because he was doing interviews, not just in Denmark, but all over Europe.) Fertilizer was in the spotlight. I am no chemist, but a huge component of fertilizer is urea which is a major (or the major) source of nitrogen for fertilizer. Aren&#8217;t we all running around every day full of urea, and flushing most of it? Is it time for someone who is a chemist to come up with some way to capture that and refine it? Or am I dreaming?<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Dillon&#8217;s name has not yet, as far as I know, come up from the White House as a potential AG. But if <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-truth-about-harmeet-dhillon-trumps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reic<\/a>h thinks it is a possibility, I&#8217;m confident it is a possibility<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/majorquestions.substack.com\/p\/public-opinion-credible-threats-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Wegman<\/a> is part of the Brennan Center for Justice. He has some thoughts about the courts here, and at least one of those thoughts is colorful.<\/p>\n<p>We may as well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-midterm-elections-takeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look at this<\/a>. The devil, as they say, is in the details.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EdOZv4A5uo?si=KShwOp-ziR1l_ZdP\" 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\/71U6W6ya7uY?si=lDqwxXytYQkiva8m\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kick-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Malcolm Nance apologized for failing to do a scheduled Substack video &#8211; because he had had to do interviews on three BBC entities and on ABC (down under.) Apparently I am far from alone in respecting his experience and analysis (and also his choices of co-hosts &#8211; Jacob has been missing for three says <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/open-thread-april-16-2026\/' 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":[4355,7303,4111,3778,6894,6536,3811,4855,3792,5858],"class_list":["post-59135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-man-spy","tag-cats","tag-doj","tag-malcolm-nance","tag-midterms","tag-personal","tag-religion","tag-robert-reich","tag-the-courts","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\/59135","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=59135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135\/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=59135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}