{"id":59575,"date":"2026-06-27T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59575"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:28:50","slug":"open-thread-june-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/27\/open-thread-june-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 27 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,<a href=\"https:\/\/petebuttigieg.substack.com\/p\/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this happpened<\/a>. I have no words. Even the unprintable ones are inadequate for this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/class-warriors-class-worriers-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> on class war &#8211; what is effective, what isn&#8217;t, and what we most need and what we don&#8217;t need,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/boasberg-contempt-proceedings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> on the latest regarding the criminal contempt proceedings Judge Boasberg has been working on since those planes to El Salvador failed to turn around and return.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlblackstar.substack.com\/p\/the-truth-is-generational-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Black Star<\/a>, and aimed at people of color. But there are a lot of white people who also are not up to speed on this. If you are not one of them. skip it. I&#8217;m not writing for you personally, but for a general audience.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LL-M1LwHaZg?si=sFApNw62R00aVsm5\" 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\/BUVZfjR0c_4?si=FuzOVdxy_yFIjduI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cage.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cage-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cage-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S. The neighborghood fireworks started last night.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, this happpened. I have no words. Even the unprintable ones are inadequate for this. Robert Reich on class war &#8211; what is effective, what isn&#8217;t, and what we most need and what we don&#8217;t need, Joyce Vance on the latest regarding the criminal contempt proceedings Judge Boasberg has been working on since those planes <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/27\/open-thread-june-27-2026\/' 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":[4355,7543,7538,7542,7539,4531,7540,7541,5239,3758],"class_list":["post-59575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-anti-lgbtqia-hate","tag-cage-match","tag-class-war","tag-crushing-fascism","tag-dogs","tag-generational-wealth","tag-judge-boasberg","tag-new-deal","tag-pete-buttigieg","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\/59575","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=59575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59583,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59575\/revisions\/59583"}],"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=59575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}