{"id":59155,"date":"2026-04-20T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59155"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:29:37","slug":"open-thread-april-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/open-thread-april-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 20 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. A good number of hands were outstanding, and about the same number were awful. I think we had less decent average hands than usual. You can&#8217;t predict that kind of thing. It just happens. The weather was lovely, and I wasn&#8217;t fighting the sun either going or returning. So I think I can be getting there from 10:30 to 5:00 &#8211; in other words, get my half-hour back by leaving home a half hour earlier, at least into fall. Of course, in the winter the sun squeezes the time at both ends. Happy 4\/20 today to those who celebrate!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2026\/03\/world\/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl\/index.html<br \/>\nBetween CNN, UltraViolet, and John Pavlovitz, I was able to use CNN after searching for and finding a readable article. I really would have hated to use a video.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/theconversation.com\/about-half-of-young-americans-cant-name-a-single-holocaust-site-repeating-a-pattern-of-ignorance-seen-in-postwar-germany-278507<br \/>\nEven though I was not born until after VE Day (and less than a month before VJ Day), remembering the Holocaust comes to me almost as natural as breathing. But &#8211; I got an education &#8211; not just in school, but also through reading, and even movies and television contributed. It isn&#8217;t merely the loss of knowledge of the Holocaust which has degreaded our education since then &#8211; but that is a teribly important part of what we have lost.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wt5yx5DXid\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/inthepublicinterest.org\/the-corporatization-of-public-schools\/\">The Corporatization of Public Schools<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Corporatization of Public Schools&#8221; &#8212; In the Public Interest\" src=\"https:\/\/inthepublicinterest.org\/the-corporatization-of-public-schools\/embed\/#?secret=ln9tpnEVQO#?secret=wt5yx5DXid\" data-secret=\"wt5yx5DXid\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHow long will it take for people to learn that any kind of privatization (including so-called public-private partnerships) will always cost more and provide less than just letting the government do what government does?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B5ejHyNtF6E?si=LNfLZWtO0E1V65ue\" 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\/ny0U9I2E7a4?si=AMkKTrQBr_F8eFTw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/war-room-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/war-room-1.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/war-room-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/war-room-1-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/war-room-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage. A good number of hands were outstanding, and about the same number were awful. I think we had less decent average hands than usual. You can&#8217;t predict that kind of thing. It just happens. The weather was lovely, and I wasn&#8217;t fighting the sun either going or <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/open-thread-april-20-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":59163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4117,4531,3915,7189,7064,3811,4787,5409,7326,6016],"class_list":["post-59155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-canada","tag-dogs","tag-education","tag-iran-war","tag-mark-carney","tag-personal","tag-privatization","tag-sexual-assault","tag-the-holocaust","tag-the-internet","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\/59155","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=59155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}