{"id":60411,"date":"2026-11-07T06:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60411"},"modified":"2026-11-07T01:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:13:59","slug":"open-thread-november-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/07\/open-thread-november-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 7 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. I&#8217;m still fussing with yarn, which is not as boring to me s it is for y&#8217;all hearing about it &#8211; but it&#8217;s not terribly exciting either &#8211; which is probably a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>There is a difference &#8211; a big one &#8211; between &#8220;revenge&#8221; or &#8220;getting even&#8221; on the one hand and &#8220;accountability&#8221; on the other. I don&#8217;t know why our party <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/democratic-leaders-failing-to-lead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leadership<\/a> finds it so difficult to see that.<\/p>\n<p>MAGA as a political movement <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/217586\/trump-rages-election-losses-maga-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may die<\/a>. But the fear of &#8220;the other,&#8221; from which racism, religious bigotry, and even sexism all derive, &#8211; that may never die. Certainly it won&#8217;t die as long as there are people willing to exploit it for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/johnpavlovitz.substack.com\/p\/dear-dems-dont-screw-this-up-a-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pavlovitz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/the.levernews.com\/dfiud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever<\/a> have exactly the same reaction, I think that&#8217;s noteworthy. John&#8217;s letter is an open letter &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing for you to sign and send. There are numerous ways to share it with about two clicks, though. The Lever&#8217;s is a video series &#8211; or will be &#8211; I think there&#8217;s only a trailer right now. If you get a security warning, so do I &#8211; but refreshing the page gets me in.<\/p>\n<p>Romano Report Mistake<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SsSDWJ2_2w8?si=M0HX5RI1Q75T3lEm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ducks<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MBJQoEJTP0k?si=g1j4_nbhkGtc5O6y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/baby-e1794041887942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. I&#8217;m still fussing with yarn, which is not as boring to me s it is for y&#8217;all hearing about it &#8211; but it&#8217;s not terribly exciting either &#8211; which is probably a good thing. There is a difference &#8211; a big one &#8211; between &#8220;revenge&#8221; or &#8220;getting even&#8221; on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/07\/open-thread-november-7-2026\/' 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":[4237,4355,7946,7948,7949,7028,5261,3811,7947],"class_list":["post-60411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-accountability","tag-animals","tag-baby","tag-congress-leadership","tag-dont-screw-up-now","tag-ducks","tag-maga","tag-personal","tag-the-romano-report","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\/60411","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=60411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60414,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411\/revisions\/60414"}],"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=60411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}