{"id":59247,"date":"2026-05-02T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59247"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:40:30","slug":"open-thread-may-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/open-thread-may-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 2 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned in passing that &#8211; at least for now &#8211; TACO (T* Always Chickens Out) has been replaced by NACHO (Not A Chance Hormuz Opens).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/04\/30\/ice-deportations-impact-colorado-crime-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a>, not so much as Colorado news, as that I&#8217;m pretty confident this happening all over the country. Because why wouldn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>I swear I am <strong>not<\/strong> making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/amazon-apprentice-reboot-donald-trump-jr-b2967761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> up.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-30-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the letter<\/a> &#8211; or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gSJQaF6Or8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to Heather<\/a> read it (under 14 minutes) &#8211; they have identical content. I&#8217;ve checked enough times to be confident, but I checked this one anyway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuZS_StV1EM?si=nEJwgZmzNPb8MjUZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0PSaQldLUQ?si=4vFv_A0km4O5L9Sb\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Venn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Venn.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Venn-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Venn-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Venn-768x618.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned in passing that &#8211; at least for now &#8211; TACO (T* Always Chickens Out) has been replaced by NACHO (Not A Chance Hormuz Opens). I&#8217;m posting this from Colorado Public Radio, not so much as Colorado news, as that I&#8217;m pretty confident this happening all over the country. Because why wouldn&#8217;t it. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/open-thread-may-2-2026\/' 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":[4355,7361,4531,6330,4748,7362,3811,7360,6439,5110,4239],"class_list":["post-59247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-conspiracies","tag-dogs","tag-heather-cox-richardson","tag-media","tag-nacho","tag-personal","tag-politics-girl","tag-taco","tag-television","tag-venn-diagram","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\/59247","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=59247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59247\/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=59247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}