{"id":59541,"date":"2026-06-22T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59541"},"modified":"2026-06-22T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:35:40","slug":"open-thread-june-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/open-thread-june-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 22 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was just a Sunday &#8211; and I still managed to not get everything done. But Trinette coming by helped.<\/p>\n<p>I assume the regime will do <a href=\"https:\/\/brennancenter.substack.com\/p\/fbi-raids-ohio-voting-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">things like this<\/a> in every state where they think they can get away with it. I wish they didn&#8217;t thinkt hey can get away with it in the &#8220;Mother of Presidents&#8221; state &#8211; but they clearly do. Grrrrr.<\/p>\n<p>This from<a href=\"https:\/\/johnpavlovitz.substack.com\/p\/the-reflecting-pool-is-a-reflection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> John Pavlovitz<\/a> has nothing to do with faith &#8211; it&#8217;s pure fact. The only thing he leaves out (so recent when he wrote that he probably hadn&#8217;t seen it) is that now the Apricot Antichrist is blaming the algae on deranged radical left vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a fan of Ken Harbaugh, do yourself a favor &#8211; grab a hanky and listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/black-rain-in-moscow-with-steve-schmidt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this interview he gave Steve Schmidt<\/a> about the article he wrote for The Atlantic (Steve provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/2026\/06\/underground-intelligence-network-russia-ukraine\/687578\/?gift=tSZBTosNvERD_zNcORxA1Q3hVGkf92yXxUPlcpONw0s&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gift link<\/a> to it). And if you&#8217;re not a fan of Harbaugh, but you are a fan of Ukraine &#8211; you too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xi5ZDYer5TI?si=OJIB9eDrZjV4nnJf\" 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\/6Ye8Mz2g_H4?si=wLQI0fpa82rSn4Te\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MOU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MOU.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MOU-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MOU-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MOU-768x445.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was just a Sunday &#8211; and I still managed to not get everything done. But Trinette coming by helped. I assume the regime will do things like this in every state where they think they can get away with it. I wish they didn&#8217;t thinkt hey can get away with it in the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/open-thread-june-22-2026\/' 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":[4355,4111,7517,7511,3811,3838,7519,3805,7518],"class_list":["post-59541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-civil-rights-in-the-1960s","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-personal","tag-russia","tag-the-reflecting-pool","tag-ukraine","tag-ukranians","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\/59541","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=59541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59546,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541\/revisions\/59546"}],"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=59541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}