{"id":59467,"date":"2026-06-08T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59467"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:59:29","slug":"open-thread-june-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 8 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after saying is was a slow day, Malcolm had to come back and make an emerbency sequel when Iran attacked Israel. To steal one of his expressions &#8211; &#8220;not healthy.&#8221; As I type, Ihave noclue what will be happening today.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what I said last week about Graham Platner&#8217;s tattoos a while ago, based on my experience with young male Marines? This quote, from a former Marine who served with him and got tattoos with him, says the same thing, only blunter: \u201cNo, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we\u2019re racist people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that\u2019s it. That\u2019s all that fucking happened.\u201d I had to laugh. It really took me back to the day.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/whos-most-responsible-for-the-monopolization<br \/>\nThis from Robert Reich is history. But it&#8217;s history I don&#8217;t think is terribly widely known, even if you know the players. I admit it surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/thefrankfigliuzzi.substack.com\/p\/i-see-dead-people-and-the-friday<br \/>\nThis Frank Figliuzzi video is from Friday, and I assume most won&#8217;t watch the whole thing, or maybe any of it, but there is a full transcript. Scroll down to the line below Frank&#8217;s picture on the left, and the last opyion before the three dots is &#8220;Transcript.&#8221; Frank&#8217;s presentations re like a whole newspaper (a real one, back in the day), so skim through it, and you are likely to find at least one thing no one else has covered. Plus there is good news at the end.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/13-organized-plots-against-black-america-that-are-worki-2000109731<br \/>\nThis, straight from The Root, is also from Friday, and is also history<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Z5yXXMJ4WQ?si=ECvUbqYnF34Obc3Z\" 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\/ziW2fbewJ2A?si=_a7zmu3yp76MgTfr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Platner-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after saying is was a slow day, Malcolm had to come back and make an emerbency sequel when Iran attacked Israel. To steal one of his expressions &#8211; &#8220;not healthy.&#8221; As I type, Ihave noclue what will be happening today. Remember what I said last week about Graham Platner&#8217;s tattoos a while ago, based <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-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":[4355,4111,7404,7466,3866,7469,7189,6247,7468,3811,3792,3845,7467],"class_list":["post-59467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-frank-figliuzzi","tag-gtaham-platner","tag-history","tag-independent-journalism","tag-iran-war","tag-maine","tag-organized-racism","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-susan-collins","tag-yellowstone","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\/59467","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=59467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59471,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467\/revisions\/59471"}],"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=59467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}