{"id":59837,"date":"2026-08-05T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59837"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:48:22","slug":"open-thread-august-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/05\/open-thread-august-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 5 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was not one of my best days. I had an appointment and had to cancel it because I couldn&#8217;t find my car keys. I still haven&#8217;t found them, and I have another appointment today which is going to be a lot harder to reschedule if I don&#8217;t find them. I know they&#8217;re here &#8211; somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muellershewrote.com\/p\/breaking-exclusive-ice-seized-drawings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allison Gill<\/a> has not been one of my favorite people on Substack. I&#8217;ve watched videos of hers because of the people she makes them with. But with this, she has earned an upgrade. Hanky alert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/moreno-bravely-ends-one-1-gop-coverup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F*ing News<\/a> covers a range of subjects here, so you may want to skim it. There will likely be at least one deserving a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/trump-administration-moves-to-block-public-from-enforcing-environmental-protection-laws-28868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remember the days<\/a> of the 50&#8217;s, 50&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, when we still had Congresses that would write and pass legislation? And Presidents who would sign them? The Tangerine Torturer might want to change his name to 00Trump &#8211; since he now want the courts to give him a license to kill.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Z9YFzpfLKM?si=xgLVpey4qKBV82l2\" 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\/z3vToaSaRBs?si=O82jNq5uIB_iZr_9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Low-e1785899147941.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was not one of my best days. I had an appointment and had to cancel it because I couldn&#8217;t find my car keys. I still haven&#8217;t found them, and I have another appointment today which is going to be a lot harder to reschedule if I don&#8217;t find them. I know they&#8217;re here &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/05\/open-thread-august-5-2026\/' 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":[4355,6333,7670,6397,5687,3811,7669,7668],"class_list":["post-59837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-concentration-camps","tag-mephitidae","tag-miscellaneous","tag-nostalgia","tag-personal","tag-the-moon-landing","tag-translation","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\/59837","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=59837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59849,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59837\/revisions\/59849"}],"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=59837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}