{"id":59278,"date":"2026-05-08T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59278"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:26:01","slug":"open-thread-may-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/open-thread-may-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 8 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got all the printer software installed, only to find that the black ink cartridge isn&#8217;t working. My fault, I fear &#8211; I pulled something loose while removing the tape, and assumed it would just stay in place. So today I need a trip to Staples. Fortunately, it&#8217;s a pretty straightforward and not too long trip. Again, sorrythis is late.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/the-hero-we-need-now-4ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy<\/a> can&#8217;t do straight news when the actual facts are this amusing. Maybe I should have saved it for Sunday, but I prefer to avoid politic completely on Sundays if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/e0I7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Independent<\/a>, which has a photo of the note. See what you think. It doesn&#8217;t look to me like the writing of an adult. Most peopl&#8217;s writing either leans to the right or to the left pretty consistently. This note leans every which way (which is not the only reason it&#8217;s almost illegible.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/tennessee-republicans-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a> addresses Tennessee&#8217;s very rushed redistricting (inspired by the Callais decision.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41yJed1Kui8?si=569qXt3AVwfIXptr\" 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\/YA5ta-jXKxA?si=8rxDe7M9jR-ygVgN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reinvent.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got all the printer software installed, only to find that the black ink cartridge isn&#8217;t working. My fault, I fear &#8211; I pulled something loose while removing the tape, and assumed it would just stay in place. So today I need a trip to Staples. Fortunately, it&#8217;s a pretty straightforward and not too <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/open-thread-may-8-2026\/' 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":[4355,3708,4111,6565,3811,7372,7374,7373,7375],"class_list":["post-59278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-borowitz","tag-cats","tag-epstein","tag-personal","tag-pure-evil","tag-suicide-note","tag-tennessee-redistricting","tag-win","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\/59278","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=59278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/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=59278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}