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Yesterday, the Arizona State House voted to overturn the 1864 abortion law, the one whose author has been so discredited. If it gets through the Senate, the Democratic Governor will, I am sure, s...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/25/open-thread-april-25-2024/

Yesterday, I got an email from Katie Porter (not that that’s unusual.) We all know ahe will no longer be in Congress after 2024 is over. But this kind of makes it real, Since she will no longer...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/24/open-thread-april-24-2024/

Yesterday, going through my inbox, I was seeing message subjects like “I underestimated House Speaker Mike Johnson” (Steve Schmidt) and “Mike Johnson Grows Spine And Passes Ukrainian Aid Pa...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/23/open-thread-april-23-2024/

Yesterday, I looked up the latest “Parody Project” – a parody of “Cat’s in the Cradle” called “Rats who enable.” And I realized how long it’s been since I checked the site. Here...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/22/open-thread-april-22-2024/

Yesterday, the radio opera was Puccini’s “La Rondine” (The Swallow), his only comic opera (which still has a suffering heroine, but she doesn’t die.) It was written on commission from a V...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/21/open-thread-april-21-2024/

Yesterday, a man set himself on fire in the “designated protest area” outside the courthouse where Trump** is being tried. He has allegedly been identified as Maxwell Azzarello of St. Augusti...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/20/open-thread-april-20-2024/

We probably all believed the first-ever criminal trial of a former president would be bit quite riveting.  But according to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman (one of the very few reporters a...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/19/trumps-own-verdict-on-his-1st-week-of-trial-a-snoozefest/

Yesterday, I had had a pretty good night’s sleep. Of course I had done some stuff the day before – packed and tied four boxes for pickup, unpacked my new (to me and already obsolete) computer...

https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2024/04/19/open-thread-april-19-2024/