{"id":60346,"date":"2026-10-28T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60346"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:44:06","slug":"open-thread-october-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/28\/open-thread-october-28-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 28 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my day off, I didn&#8217;t do much, including needlework. I untangled the yarn on a project which I&#8217;m knitting with double strands, and I fixed a dweater neckline which I had made too tight &#8211; I could get it over my head, but not without taking off my glasses. This was the second one, and I have one more to go. \ud83d\ude22<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/what-i-tell-people-who-dont-do-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contains a video<\/a> which is quite short, and also on loop. I don&#8217;t get out much, and therefore seldom if ever talk with idiots. But if I did, my response would be like Bob&#8217;s. Wajeeh Lion puts it a little stronger &#8211; &#8220;You may not f**k with politics, politics will still f**k with you.<\/p>\n<p>IIRC, the original Nazis also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-fraud-whistleblower-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rewarded snitches<\/a>. Feel free to correct me if I&#8217;m wrong. But rewarding snitches is all this is. Don&#8217;t try to report any actual law breaking through this program &#8211; you might get locked up.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/OfSGj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>, which is even stricter than Conde Nast publications. You may need to close a money ask page to get to the articlw. And I was not the first to archive this one. It&#8217;s from Saturday &#8211; but it&#8217;s a prediction, not news, and the prognosticated date is still in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/10\/15\/public-execution-livestream-hegseth-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is an extra<\/a>, because it is not news, but history. But I&#8217;m betting it is history you don&#8217;t know about unless you saw this article before I posted it &#8211; or are yourself an investigative reporter. I knew about thw Middle Ages, but this time period was all new to me. Not that I should be surprised, knowing that there is a market for snuff films other than executions.<\/p>\n<p>Reich Pronouns<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPStFJHFKCs?si=oO4rd0FCGSwZ_5c8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-yeGsGFaOcQ?si=-z-4uqWAtbSUrUPw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hole-e1793090442462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my day off, I didn&#8217;t do much, including needlework. I untangled the yarn on a project which I&#8217;m knitting with double strands, and I fixed a dweater neckline which I had made too tight &#8211; I could get it over my head, but not without taking off my glasses. This was the second one, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/28\/open-thread-october-28-2026\/' 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":[4355,3790,4111,7911,7909,7908,7189,3811,7861,7910],"class_list":["post-60346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-cats","tag-conversations-with-non-activists","tag-falling-into-hole","tag-holes","tag-iran-war","tag-personal","tag-public-executions","tag-snitching","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\/60346","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=60346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60350,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60346\/revisions\/60350"}],"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=60346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}