{"id":59331,"date":"2026-05-16T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59331"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:24:51","slug":"open-thread-may-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/16\/open-thread-may-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 16 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it seemed quiet for a Friday, although thqt might be just me &#8211; or it might be, at least in part, that everything is so awful that all news seems like a recap.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/05\/15\/tina-peters-sentence-shortened-jared-polis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanks for nothing<\/a>, governor. Although she was not tried for it, she is violent &#8211; kicking a police officer attempting to arrest her with a warrant, attacking another inmate at the prison &#8211; we all saw the videos. Now I (along with every Coloradan) am less safe because of this clemency.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would like to watch the documentary film about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastclassfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich&#8217;s last year teaching<\/a> (for a salary) it&#8217;s now available to rent.<\/p>\n<p>Read as much or as little of this as you want &#8211; but the one I don&#8217;t want y&#8217;all to miss is the second from the end &#8211; the one about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/us-now-war-criming-entire-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI entities having opinions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XaqKHHbSOEc?si=WAi7ps3iPfh02uCZ\" 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\/EooKc_PXdy4?si=J1qygv2Dj9LYf2c7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tweet.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tweet-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tweet-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tweet-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it seemed quiet for a Friday, although thqt might be just me &#8211; or it might be, at least in part, that everything is so awful that all news seems like a recap. Yeah. Thanks for nothing, governor. Although she was not tried for it, she is violent &#8211; kicking a police officer attempting <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/16\/open-thread-may-16-2026\/' 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":[4201,4355,7387,6093,5954,4531,3709,3798,3811,3792,5916,3812],"class_list":["post-59331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-ai","tag-animals","tag-at-stake","tag-clemency","tag-documentary","tag-dogs","tag-humor","tag-labor","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-tina-peters","tag-war-crimes","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\/59331","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=59331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59331\/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=59331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}