{"id":1796,"date":"2026-04-20T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/monday-open-thread\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:30:00","slug":"monday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/monday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"
Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome.

It’s good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your brain, if you have the right connections. Uber-conservative former prosecutor and former Trump attorney Joseph di Genova, age 82, is back — Trump just appointed him Counselor to the Attorney General<\/a>:

Today, Joseph E. diGenova was sworn in as Counselor to the Attorney General, assuming a senior advisory role within the U.S. Department of Justice.

In this capacity, diGenova will advise the Attorney General on significant legal, policy, and enforcement matters, drawing on decades of experience in federal prosecution, complex investigations, and national legal practice.<\/blockquote>

Trump says it’s unlikely Iran will get an extension on his ultimatum. More…] Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who loved to go on the TeeVee before he went to prison<\/a> for stealing money from Stormy Daniels<\/a>, his $25 million NIKE extortion scam<\/a>, and another theft of funds, fraud and tax case involving a former client, among others, just got released to a halfway house, where he will supposedly finish serving his sentence until mid-2028.

That’s an awfully long time for BOP to put someone in a halfway house. I assume Avenatti will transfer to home detention for the last year or so, so this may be a big break for him.\r\n
Source link www.talkleft.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It’s good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your brain, if you have the right connections. Uber-conservative former prosecutor and former Trump attorney Joseph di Genova, age 82, is back — Trump just appointed him Counselor to the…","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}