{"id":59518,"date":"2026-06-19T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59518"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:48:46","slug":"open-thread-june-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/open-thread-june-19-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 19 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Juneteenth, y&#8217;all! Yesterday, from a comment on Malcolm&#8217;s show: &#8220;Trump [sic] didn&#8217;t get his HEU (highly enriched uranium) but he did get HEI (highly enriched Iranians).&#8221; Jim Acosta, on the other hand, called the signing foreign policy flatulence &#8211; the fart (maybe even the shart) of the deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/friendly-advice-i-refuse-to-take\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> &#8211; is singing my song. Well, except that no one is trying to tell me to slow down, because no one sees the actual work, which mostly consists of goinf through hundreds of emails daily in order to select a few topics &#8211; and minimize the explainer part &#8211; and minimizing is harder than it looks. But if anyone did say something &#8211; I&#8217;d have basically the same response.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Nina Simone &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/atlblackstar.substack.com\/p\/mississippi-officer-placed-on-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mississippi God Damn<\/a>.&#8221; Yes, I do know there are good people in Mississippi &#8211; that&#8217;s proven right in this story by the witneses who are coming forward to dispute the police account. But still.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to learn that someone is taking <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/can-you-be-alabamas-governor-if-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tommy Potatohead<\/a> to court over where he actually lived &#8211; as opposed to just owns the houae.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlblackstar.substack.com\/p\/first-look-obamas-presidential-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">little bonus for today<\/a> &#8211; because it officially opens today &#8211; because of course it does &#8211; although the big party was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>SocSecur<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xyYRK2FOB8?si=td3DQ3AbYCcIf_sc\" 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\/c6Qn9cucK74?si=Rnx4qLIWd9EzvtUB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/inconceivable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/inconceivable.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/inconceivable-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/inconceivable-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/inconceivable-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Juneteenth, y&#8217;all! Yesterday, from a comment on Malcolm&#8217;s show: &#8220;Trump [sic] didn&#8217;t get his HEU (highly enriched uranium) but he did get HEI (highly enriched Iranians).&#8221; Jim Acosta, on the other hand, called the signing foreign policy flatulence &#8211; the fart (maybe even the shart) of the deal. Robert Reich &#8211; is singing my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/open-thread-june-19-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":59517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[5184,4355,4111,7509,3725,3709,5814,3811,7510,3792,3851],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-alabama","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-gop-blindness","tag-holiday","tag-humor","tag-mississippi","tag-personal","tag-presidential-records","tag-robert-reich","tag-social-security","category-145-id","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\/59518","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=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59529,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions\/59529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}