{"id":59240,"date":"2026-05-01T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59240"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:48:35","slug":"open-thread-may-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/01\/open-thread-may-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, in addition to being May Day, is also Law Day<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Joyce Vance made a Substack video with Norm Eisen and April Ryan from The Contrarian, and the subject of James Comey’s new indictment came up. I know almost everyone is still upset with him on account of the 2016 election and “her emails.” But the more time goes by, the less I believe that that remark had anything to do with Hillary’s loss. I think pure misogyny was more than enough to sink her. But I digress. April, who had worked at the FBI when Comey was its Director, said something about him that I didn’t know and you probably don’t either. She said he would take every new hire to the MLK Memorial, and show them the FBI files on Dr. King, and say “This is what overreach looks like.”<\/p>\n

From The Conversation<\/a>. The Panamanian company Congress just authorized to mine the Boundary Waters for copper sulfite may be the most egregious example of this. It doesn’y just pollute the water. It also poisons the air.<\/p>\n

As Liza Donnelly<\/a> points out, Heather Cox Richardson nailed the difference between the two speeches. And Liza goes a bit farther by linking to videos. (This from Borowitz<\/a> is just a footnote.)<\/p>\n

There’s been noise about Rep Chuck Edwards<\/a> (R-NC) being under ethics investigation, but nothing about why. Unless this is it. Not that this sounds like something Republican would care about. I guess we’ll wait and see.<\/p>\n

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