{"id":59481,"date":"2026-06-11T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59481"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:16:38","slug":"open-thread-june-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/open-thread-june-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 11 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there were a whole lot of Substack videos available from Substackers whom I fpllow. Malcolm&#8217;s &#8220;warcast&#8221; was probably the one which most struck me, though Frank Figliuzzi&#8217;s interview with Jim Himes on national intelligence was also sobering. One &#8211; from Joyce Vance, lasting under a minute, I added a link to under the history one (all of those are only a minute, plus or minus not more than five seconds.) I got a lot of knitting done, but I didn&#8217;t forget to pay my escrow shortage. Oh, and my primary ballot arrived by mail, as is state law.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to sympathize with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/heartbreaking-victory-star-treks-lt-uhura-s-family-wi-2000109708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nichelle Nichols<\/a> and her family. It&#8217;s harder to remember that every day, black people and their families are treated as second (or lower) class citizens by other people who don&#8217;t think they are racists.<\/p>\n<p>Ve-ry in-ter-est-ing. (Somehow quoting Arte Johnson feels appropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allrisenews.com\/p\/broadview-six-crock-grand-jury-transcripts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The first in a two part series from <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/playing-chicken-in-a-pinto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Litman<\/a>. Is playing chicken ever a smart idea? I think not. Part 2 is coming &#8211; and I will share it when it arrives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/cruel-and-crazy-defeated-in-south\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> has written before about Roderick Edmonds. Sadly, he will likely feel the need in the future to do so again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b15N9i4VlMg?si=FHg1pZdabDK6DaYJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/a-better-trump-and-vance-team-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary and Joyce<\/a>. This happened outside last week&#8217;s Bruce Springsteen concert. I wrote about it, but didn&#8217;t have video. You&#8217;ll probably have to unmute it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FNyrNl5hPPk?si=IyYoFYDP2lYaipbV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuclear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuclear.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuclear-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuclear-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuclear-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there were a whole lot of Substack videos available from Substackers whom I fpllow. Malcolm&#8217;s &#8220;warcast&#8221; was probably the one which most struck me, though Frank Figliuzzi&#8217;s interview with Jim Himes on national intelligence was also sobering. One &#8211; from Joyce Vance, lasting under a minute, I added a link to under the history <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/open-thread-june-11-2026\/' 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":[7476,4355,4111,7479,7480,7477,7482,7475,3811,7481,7478],"class_list":["post-59481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-trump-and-vance","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-chicken","tag-grand-jury-transcripts","tag-john-peter-zenger","tag-nichelle-nichols","tag-nuclear-option","tag-personal","tag-prosecutorial-misconduct","tag-south-carolina","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\/59481","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=59481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59485,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59481\/revisions\/59485"}],"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=59481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}