{"id":59405,"date":"2026-05-28T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59405"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:52:14","slug":"open-thread-may-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/open-thread-may-28-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 28 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I pretty well caught up on sleep. We&#8217;ll see how long that lasts. I am going to see Virgil again this weeken, buth to make up to him (and to me) for the pne I missed, and to get back on schedule.<br \/>\nAnd last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/actionnetwork.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Network<\/a> introduced a new FAFO campaign &#8211; not what you&#8217;re thinking. This time, it stands for Fight Amazon, Fight Oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>I could have posted just t<a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/full-frontal-neofascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robery Reich<\/a>&#8216;s video &#8211; especially since the message is something we all know. But his suggested responses are well worth reading &#8211; particularly the last one.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/voteveterans.substack.com\/p\/your-daily-four-star-91a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vote Vetes<\/a>. The highest rank of General is four star (short of being the General of the Army) and that is what the title of the series alludes to punningly. I realize a lot of veterans are Republicans. But those who are not &#8211; like the Vindmans, Jason Crow, Mark Kelly, Tammy Duckworth, Mikie Sherrill,and others, really do make good legislators and governors &#8211; because they take their oath seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Belle Jim Crow 2.0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-fYcdJIYCo?si=9w4ejpVW_zuRKSqu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mNyNjK0y3g?si=4qyBOvL8MKKjQcpa\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/locusts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/locusts.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/locusts-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/locusts-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/locusts-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I pretty well caught up on sleep. We&#8217;ll see how long that lasts. I am going to see Virgil again this weeken, buth to make up to him (and to me) for the pne I missed, and to get back on schedule. And last week, Action Network introduced a new FAFO campaign &#8211; not <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/open-thread-may-28-2026\/' 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":[5458,4392,7429,4816,7430,3811,3792,4048],"class_list":["post-59405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-fafo","tag-fascism","tag-fertilizer","tag-insects","tag-jim-crow-2-0","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-veterans","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\/59405","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=59405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59405\/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=59405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}