{"id":57270,"date":"2025-07-26T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57270"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:19:32","slug":"open-thread-july-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/26\/open-thread-july-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 26 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a good night&#8217;s sleep &#8211; and a little more energy than I&#8217;ve been having (though not as much as I would like to have.)\u00a0 Incidentally, does anyone remember that before I was in the hospital, and I was putting up two posts daily, including one just for videos, one of the creators I used was retired Major Richard Ojeda? Well, he is now running for Congress in North Carolina. He may not be young, but he is a fighter, has zero tolerance for BS, and tells it like it is &#8220;without fear or favor.&#8221; I hope he wins.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see anything surprising in this from the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/07\/23\/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intercept<\/a>, unless it&#8217;s the focus on Personal Protective Equipment &#8211; when there are so many other behaviors they could criminalize. Like giving people food and\/or water, as was done in some states at the last election.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/stephen-miller-sues-john-roberts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal &#8211; stuff<\/a> &#8211; on a Saturday, but at least you will be amused by some of the colorful similes. With any other court, this is so extreme that I&#8217;d just laugh and delete it. But with this court, who knows?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9GKkpFEGNw?si=FZXOnaMqli98VMji\" 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\/-lU95wGNYbo?si=ZO-YMGHzmHHfHCmJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xriminals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xriminals.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xriminals-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xriminals-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xriminals-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a good night&#8217;s sleep &#8211; and a little more energy than I&#8217;ve been having (though not as much as I would like to have.)\u00a0 Incidentally, does anyone remember that before I was in the hospital, and I was putting up two posts daily, including one just for videos, one of the creators <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/26\/open-thread-july-26-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,4077,4069,6563,3811,6466,5858],"class_list":["post-57270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-magaverse","tag-personal","tag-stephen-miller","tag-the-courts","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\/57270","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=57270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57270\/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=57270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}