{"id":59225,"date":"2026-04-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59225"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:53:04","slug":"open-thread-april-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/open-thread-april-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 27 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my inbox was reachable again. It took me a while to delete over 350 emails, though, even without reading almost all of them. But I am assuming today there is only one story &#8211; one which has multiple possible takes. I&#8217;m bumping to Wednesday a story or two which I had in mind for today. See you then.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qasimrashid.com\/p\/i-was-in-dc-when-someone-allegedly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an attendee of the other party<\/a> &#8211; the one for independent journalists &#8211; the people we should all be reading, or watching, if possible. (Not all of them &#8211; no one has that kind of time &#8211; but some of them.)<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/217bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>. This attendee was at the Correspondents&#8217; party.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/the-real-victim-of-the-white-house<br \/>\nRobert Hubbell writes about more than the shooting, including the California Gubernatorial primary, for which he proposes a strategy which highly recommend (assuming it becomes necessary &#8211; and it certainly might.) But what caught my eye was his headline point that truth id the chief victim of the WHC dinner shooting &#8211; as it is of everything about the current regime.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeO41h4fHb4?si=i_q2cfJdw870r4m7\" 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\/V_t6rD6Pelo?si=1wt9Xg7efHLom81t\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/05_Soup_Gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/05_Soup_Gun.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/05_Soup_Gun-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/05_Soup_Gun-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my inbox was reachable again. It took me a while to delete over 350 emails, though, even without reading almost all of them. But I am assuming today there is only one story &#8211; one which has multiple possible takes. I&#8217;m bumping to Wednesday a story or two which I had in mind for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/open-thread-april-27-2026\/' 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":[4355,3761,4531,4321,3811,7350,7348,5607,7349,7347],"class_list":["post-59225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-corruption","tag-dogs","tag-guns","tag-personal","tag-qasim-rashid","tag-robert-hubbell","tag-substack","tag-the-new-yorker","tag-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting","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\/59225","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=59225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59225\/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=59225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}