{"id":60029,"date":"2026-09-03T06:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60029"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:06:09","slug":"open-thread-september-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/open-thread-september-3-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 3 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my inbox was packed even more than usual.<br \/>\nSomehow I managed to get it down &#8211; not completely, but at least manageable. By the time I scheduled this, I was seriously tired.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/IzNvn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> because paywall. Yeah, it happened Tuesday. But though people talk frequwntly about the censure option, and we (Democrats) frequently recommend it to Republicans, it almost nnever happens. That it did now is noteworthy &#8211; and that rgw vote was 413 to 2 is breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>h<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not convinced that any of these people even know what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marytrump.org\/p\/capital-one-too-many\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conflict of interest<\/a> is, nor believes they even exist. Their position appears to be something like &#8220;No conflict of interest here. Everything I do is in my interest. No conflict there.&#8221; Fortunately, we have Elizabeth Warren (for now anyway) to ask the right questions to challenge that &#8211; not that the challenges are getting through to the willfully ignorant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allrisenews.com\/p\/usps-is-defying-court-orders-on-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anyone surprised<\/a>? I didn&#8217;t think so. Of course, the people who need to see this are the Secretariesof State of each state.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXw1QpD2duo?si=2QabMc6_b8MYcCZz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2fer mix<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dFLwTkyds3I?si=Zf2x2MRDf2rm3W6x\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hoo-hah-e1788414336219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my inbox was packed even more than usual. Somehow I managed to get it down &#8211; not completely, but at least manageable. By the time I scheduled this, I was seriously tired. Archived from Axios because paywall. Yeah, it happened Tuesday. But though people talk frequwntly about the censure option, and we (Democrats) frequently <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/open-thread-september-3-2026\/' 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":[7752,4355,7753,6513,4531,3781,5771,3811,3792,5321,7751,4053],"class_list":["post-60029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-affordability","tag-animals","tag-censure-by-house","tag-conflicts-of-interest","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-mary-trump","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-sheep","tag-transgendered-people-ans-sports","tag-usps","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\/60029","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=60029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60032,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60029\/revisions\/60032"}],"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=60029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}