{"id":59366,"date":"2026-05-22T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59366"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:05:21","slug":"open-thread-may-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/open-thread-may-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 22 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, for the third day in a row, I had to go to the clinic &#8211; this time because something I should have dropped off yesterday. No one to blame but myself for that. Still, it&#8217;s frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefrankfigliuzzi.substack.com\/p\/ebola-cuba-slush-fund-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video pos<\/a>t, but there is a transcript. Scroll down below the screen, and about the middle between left and right, directly above the orange block labeled &#8220;Get the app,&#8221; click on &#8220;Transcript.&#8221; Besides the three topics mentioned in the title, including the Arc de Trompe, the San Diego Mosque shooting and its back story, and a prosecution of a prosecutor who has displeased the regime&#8217;s DOJ. And I may even be forgetting one or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/colorado-democrats-censure-jared-polis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a> IMO has done an excellent job of reporting on this. Some of the quotes will give you a good sense of why I didn&#8217;t know Colorado&#8217;s elected Democrats had it in them (but I&#8217;m sure glad they did.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surpeise, I&#8217;m sure, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muellershewrote.com\/p\/new-ive-filed-a-claim-with-todd-blanches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trolling can be used for good<\/a> as well as for evil ourposes. Here is a sample from Allison Gill (who identifies herself thoroughly so I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yd2L_a9Hqc?si=noLc5jRrXTbbIloK\" 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\/UisjbMack6k?si=87g2UIeZ-KQ7OfuZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom-782x1024.jpg 782w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ballroom-768x1006.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, for the third day in a row, I had to go to the clinic &#8211; this time because something I should have dropped off yesterday. No one to blame but myself for that. Still, it&#8217;s frustrating. This is a video post, but there is a transcript. Scroll down below the screen, and about the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/open-thread-may-22-2026\/' 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":[7403,4355,4344,4531,7404,4845,3811,7129,3792,7397],"class_list":["post-59366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-ballroom","tag-animals","tag-colorado","tag-dogs","tag-frank-figliuzzi","tag-litigation","tag-personal","tag-political-dark-money","tag-robert-reich","tag-slush-fund","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\/59366","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=59366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59366\/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=59366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}