{"id":60287,"date":"2026-10-17T06:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60287"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:26:51","slug":"open-thread-october-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/open-thread-october-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 17 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I expect everyone knows, today is No Kings Day 4.0. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing photos of group and signs, and to hearing how big the total numbers are this time.<\/p>\n<p>(not a video) I realize this is second hand &#8211; and I do subscribe to Axios &#8211; but only to their breaking news alerts. They don&#8217;t have the best reputation for lack of spin in their fuller reporting. So you can take what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allrisenews.com\/p\/tonight-in-your-rights-a-maga-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam<\/a> says they said with a grain of salt. I do trust Adam, and you can see for yourself he&#8217;s good at distinguishing what Axios reported from what he is reporting. Also, this is not the full article &#8211; you can get it for free by clicking on &#8220;accepy your free article&#8221; &#8211; but if you do, I can&#8217;t guaranteeyou can ever do it again &#8211; on anyone&#8217;s Substack.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2026\/10\/trump-foreign-influence-retreat\/416587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoteVets<\/a> &#8211; one of the stars in may &#8220;Daily Four Star&#8221; email. Do not het your hopes up that recognizing that this is weakening us will lead to stopping it, or at least slowing it down. (I&#8217;m actually astonished that thre was even a small temporary admission, and I&#8217;m confident that even that will not last.)<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s right. It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/brennancenter.substack.com\/p\/the-campaign-finance-scandal-is-whats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge scandal<\/a> that so much dark money in campaigns is perfectly legal. And that is only exacerbated by the fact that our lawmaking body &#8211; Congress &#8211; did not legislate rhis. It was legislated through our courts. Not what our founders intended, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1y5xiaIgRvg?si=BPGzL1jTxHT9p5kp\" 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\/gIEtYW-dRfI?si=eT9YjpmSyeDipg2p\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/holiday-e1792216822894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I expect everyone knows, today is No Kings Day 4.0. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing photos of group and signs, and to hearing how big the total numbers are this time. (not a video) I realize this is second hand &#8211; and I do subscribe to Axios &#8211; but only to their breaking news <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/open-thread-october-17-2026\/' 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":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[7185,4355,5144,4531,5615,3725,7872,3811],"class_list":["post-60287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-america-first","tag-animals","tag-campaign-finance","tag-dogs","tag-foreign-influence","tag-holiday","tag-maga-bloodbath","tag-personal","category-145-id","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\/60287","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=60287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60293,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60287\/revisions\/60293"}],"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=60287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}