{"id":59991,"date":"2026-08-29T06:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59991"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:09:35","slug":"open-thread-august-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/29\/open-thread-august-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 29 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up a couple of hours before sunset, which doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but will help me get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>I watched Frank Figliuzzi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefrankfigliuzzi.substack.com\/p\/its-frank-friday-live-at-5p-et-0bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Frank Friday&#8221;<\/a> broadcast in which he uses the adjectival definition of his name (not that he doesn&#8217;t always do his best to be frank but yeah &#8211; this time he delves deeply into a couple of legal cases which reek to high heaven &#8211; a proposed sale of land within Yosemite to a private developer, the destruction of government databases which have taken real administrations decades to build, actions of DOJ employees at primary polling places in Wyoming, and more. I&#8217;m sure you can find it all elsewhere &#8211; but not all in one place &#8211; and not presented with Frank&#8217;s attitude.<\/p>\n<p>I realize you all know that the meeting occurred, and would like to know what was said at it. This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/jeffries-kushner-secret-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have that except a couple of snippets. The article is mostly about the backlash to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is the civil case regarding the Orange Ogre&#8217;s attempt to illegally use the Postal Service. <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/judge-talwanis-most-recent-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> goes into detail.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3fUrjDaZFM?si=LKG5tkjXpA71jYY3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dog<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X70diu3YGLE?si=5ff3X8SeeNegRy1I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lake-e1787982900729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got up a couple of hours before sunset, which doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but will help me get back on track. I watched Frank Figliuzzi&#8217;s &#8220;Frank Friday&#8221; broadcast in which he uses the adjectival definition of his name (not that he doesn&#8217;t always do his best to be frank but yeah &#8211; this <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/29\/open-thread-august-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":[4355,4531,7404,7733,7736,3925,7735,6397,7734,3811,6958,5858,4246],"class_list":["post-59991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-frank-figliuzzi","tag-great-lakes","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-jared-kushner","tag-lemon-grove","tag-miscellaneous","tag-name-changes","tag-personal","tag-segregation","tag-the-courts","tag-voting-by-mail","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\/59991","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=59991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60002,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59991\/revisions\/60002"}],"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=59991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}