{"id":60202,"date":"2026-10-01T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60202"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:31:48","slug":"open-thread-october-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/open-thread-october-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept late enough that I didn&#8217;t get through all the news. But I venture to guess that the biggest news of the say was the hijacked plane. That is going to have repercussions &#8211; in more than one country. (But the second story was the Senator from Missouri trying to catch Jack Smith in a perjury trap which didn&#8217;t exist &#8211; because the Senator was conflating two very different basketball teams on the basis that both teams had &#8220;Hawk&#8221; in their names. Video of that is all over &#8211; and very amusing if you can stand it.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to skip this because MAGA Christians and others like them have made you so sick of religion you can hardly even hear the word &#8220;Christian&#8221; without puking, please feel free. I get it. But if you can stand reading about a deeply damaged person who now leans on his faith to keep on track doing the right things (the kind of person in TomCat&#8217;s mind when he spoke of &#8220;authentic Christians&#8221;), this is an example.<\/p>\n<p>Well. This is gonna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/iran-war-victims-put-trumps-power-grab-on-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leave a mark<\/a>. Not that he will be able to see it &#8211; but that says lot about him and nothing about the action.<\/p>\n<p>This investigation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/a-simple-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Publica<\/a> has been around for awhile &#8211; I just hadn&#8217;t seen it. It&#8217;s not even a vaccination &#8211; it&#8217;s a fricking vitamin we&#8217;re talking about here. And it came yo my attention at a time when Trinette, in a couple of weeks, is going to a baby shower for a family member. I&#8217;m pretty sure her family is all too smart to decline this shot, but I&#8217;ll have to bring it up anyway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tufv2XB8-h4?si=9Hta3wnmm6cYTwgk\" 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\/w1aLvnpoBZg?si=QrMRGfoicNWspzhk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Mail-Vote-e1790823309102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept late enough that I didn&#8217;t get through all the news. But I venture to guess that the biggest news of the say was the hijacked plane. That is going to have repercussions &#8211; in more than one country. (But the second story was the Senator from Missouri trying to catch Jack Smith <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/open-thread-october-1-2026\/' 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":[4355,4554,4531,7830,7831,4845,3811,7833,7832,4246,7054],"class_list":["post-60202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-california","tag-dogs","tag-human-newborn-survival","tag-iranian-americans","tag-litigation","tag-personal","tag-ukraine-foreign-legion","tag-ukraine-war","tag-voting-by-mail","tag-wealth-tax","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\/60202","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=60202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60207,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions\/60207"}],"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=60202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}