{"id":57259,"date":"2025-07-24T06:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57259"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:01:48","slug":"open-thread-july-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/open-thread-july-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 24 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmnance.substack.com\/p\/obama-trump-epstein-gabbard-abuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm Nance and Bryan Cunningham<\/a> did a video on Substack including a visit from Lev Parnas. It&#8217;s about an hour and a quarter long, and there is a fair amount of profanity, but little time is wasted, and a lot of details discussed, while not new, are new to the public. Many are in Nance&#8217;s book, but his knowledge is so far ahead of pretty much everyone else&#8217;s that it must have been hard to read or even to listen to. I might add that there is some content on which the participants don&#8217;t agree on what is going to happen. IT really is worth the time in my opinion. 1700 people watched it live &#8211; which is apparently big for Substack &#8211; but small compared to the number of people who should learn about it.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/resisting-while-in-political-exile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Hubbell<\/a> points out, one doesn&#8217;t have to go to another country to be in exile. At this point all the good and decent people in the US are virtually and politically in exile.<\/p>\n<p>I considered putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/ice-agents-confronted-manhattan-little-league-players-a-2000052123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this story<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s post, but decided to post it today &#8211; because, although the hero of it is a good man indeed, and deserves credit (actually for all his accomplishments), the does not resolve into a smooth good news ending.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBdZihrra4I?si=YLfRiFHvIO_tspQv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B5RbWkz8VdQ?si=G0YODd4VAnUhFe0R\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/delay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/delay.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/delay-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/delay-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Malcolm Nance and Bryan Cunningham did a video on Substack including a visit from Lev Parnas. It&#8217;s about an hour and a quarter long, and there is a fair amount of profanity, but little time is wasted, and a lot of details discussed, while not new, are new to the public. Many are in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/open-thread-july-24-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4165,5181,6556,4531,6558,6559,6557,3714],"class_list":["post-57259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-courage","tag-delay-animals","tag-dogs","tag-exile","tag-national-intelligence","tag-recess","tag-video","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\/57259","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=57259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}