{"id":60359,"date":"2026-10-30T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60359"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:08:53","slug":"open-thread-october-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/open-thread-october-30-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 30 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I corrected my calendar on a couple of appointments I had entered on the wrong dates, and managed to watch &#8220;El Ultimo Sue\u00f1o&#8221; again, and picked up on more thingd I hasn&#8217;t noticed the first or second times. I&#8217;m afraid that will have to be it, though. So glad I was able to see it at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced that knowing the identities of the Orange Oligarch&#8217;s unelected henchmen (henchpersons?) will help us to defang him &#8211; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/cleta-mitchell-elections-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> put a lot of time and effort into this one, and they do actual investigations for good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not news to sane people that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/29\/head-veterans-group-that-backed-trump-arch-says-he-was-misled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Apricot Antichrist lies<\/a> &#8211; nor that that applies to everyone in his regime as well. But sadly, there are still people just now finding it out. Ordinarily I can&#8217;t get into WaPo, but today, for some reason, it allowed me to. In case it shuts you out, here;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/l5LwM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternate link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My feelings are hurt &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wolvesandsheep.substack.com\/p\/lets-do-this-join-the-fight-against\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado<\/a> didn&#8217;t get one of these letters (OK, just kidding &#8211; I don&#8217;t feel hurt at all. More like a sigh of relief.)<\/p>\n<p><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 2fer<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACk66Gn8yL4?si=EyZNxJlIAitStxSL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/ramaswamy-appears-in-new-ad-with\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dark humor<\/a> on a Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I corrected my calendar on a couple of appointments I had entered on the wrong dates, and managed to watch &#8220;El Ultimo Sue\u00f1o&#8221; again, and picked up on more thingd I hasn&#8217;t noticed the first or second times. I&#8217;m afraid that will have to be it, though. So glad I was able to see <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/open-thread-october-30-2026\/' 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":[4355,3708,4111,7919,5765,3811,7918,3792],"class_list":["post-60359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-borowitz","tag-cats","tag-cleta-mitchell","tag-election-interference","tag-personal","tag-pronouns","tag-robert-reich","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\/60359","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=60359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60365,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60359\/revisions\/60365"}],"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=60359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}