{"id":59588,"date":"2026-06-29T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59588"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:34:37","slug":"open-thread-june-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/29\/open-thread-june-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 29 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played, you know, cribbage. The weather was good, and my air conditioner was working (Both ways, it waited until I got to my destination to ask me to turn it off please as the engine was starting to overheat. Both times I was happy to oblige. After getting home, I went through my email and, among other things, watched a Substack with Joyce vance and an old friend of hers, also a lawyer, who is suing to get Tommy Tuberville off the ballot for Governor on the grounds that he does not meet the [Alabama} Constitutional requirement to have resided in Alabama for seven years consecutively before the election. I wish Joyce&#8217;s friend a crushing victory. Alabama may not know it, but it really needs Doug Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/expert-100-year-sentence-in-texas-case-signals-authori-2000112711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is ridiculous<\/a>. And atrocious I could go on, but I expect y&#8217;all can too.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Litman of <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/the-most-dangerous-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds<\/a> on the &#8220;investigation&#8221; of Governor Newsom<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/212249\/trump-white-south-african-refugees-gift-bag-racists-afrikaners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these are who<\/a> Stephen Miller and the rest of the regime want to let into the Us &#8211; The scum of the earth. Professional victims coming as &#8220;refugees.&#8221; Doong their best to poison our brains.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdZmuDrLP-Q?si=So0_T7xdzDVcWm9u\" 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\/bnMhpJhFNhE?si=JNoH4O69D64t_e8L\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/accountability.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/accountability.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/accountability-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/accountability-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/accountability-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played, you know, cribbage. The weather was good, and my air conditioner was working (Both ways, it waited until I got to my destination to ask me to turn it off please as the engine was starting to overheat. Both times I was happy to oblige. After getting home, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/29\/open-thread-june-29-2026\/' 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":[4237,5184,4355,4111,4505,7545,3809,3811,4217,3792,7546],"class_list":["post-59588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-accountability","tag-alabama","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-gerrymandering","tag-immigranta","tag-investigation","tag-personal","tag-refugees","tag-robert-reich","tag-sentencing-for-exercising-1st-amendment-rights","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\/59588","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=59588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59596,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59588\/revisions\/59596"}],"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=59588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}