{"id":59453,"date":"2026-06-05T06:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59453"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:37:57","slug":"open-thread-june-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/05\/open-thread-june-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 5 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The House passed a War Powers Resolution 215-208. It went to the Senate, but if they voted, I haven&#8217;t heard the numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/distracter-in-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds\/Harry Litman<\/a>. Please forgive the insult to drunken sailors. Other observations are totally on target.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/the-first-real-legal-challenge-to-trumps-iran-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lever News<\/a>. This is short, it&#8217;s currently only in one house, and there are caveats. But it&#8217;s as important as the words &#8220;or of such other body as Congress may by law provide&#8221; are in section 4 of the 25th Amendment. It opens up a way around a Presidential veto or a captive cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/breakthrough-drug-nearly-doubles-survival-with-advanced-pancreatic-cancer-an-oncologist-explains-how-daraxonrasib-overcame-an-undruggable-disease-283647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too late<\/a> for Alex Trebek &#8211; and for so many other beloved people &#8211; but I&#8217;m thankful something is finally here<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wVHgL4Y9a4Y?si=cJalw2qfUgw230Wn\" 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\/ppN7uWMqNEU?si=NAJCCIB_kYIYMvvo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iran-arrest-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The House passed a War Powers Resolution 215-208. It went to the Senate, but if they voted, I haven&#8217;t heard the numbers. Talking Feds\/Harry Litman. Please forgive the insult to drunken sailors. Other observations are totally on target. From Lever News. This is short, it&#8217;s currently only in one house, and there are caveats. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/05\/open-thread-june-5-2026\/' 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":[4355,4165,4531,7458,3866,7457,7459,4002,7026],"class_list":["post-59453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-congress","tag-dogs","tag-emergency-mechanisms","tag-history","tag-pancreatic-cancer","tag-political-distraction","tag-protests","tag-war-powers","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\/59453","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=59453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59459,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions\/59459"}],"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=59453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}