{"id":59614,"date":"2026-07-03T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59614"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:05:14","slug":"open-thread-july-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/03\/open-thread-july-3-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 3 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as every day since February 28, I watched Malcolm Nance&#8217;s &#8220;warcast&#8221; (or in this case &#8220;moolahcast.&#8221;) I always keep CC on. At one point Malcolm said, as clear as day, &#8220;Strait of Hormuz.&#8221; The CC said &#8220;straight of hormones.&#8221; Does AI have a sense of humor? I would find that absolutely terrifying. The rest of the cast was anything but funny. International oil is curently priced artifically low. We &#8211; the US &#8211; have been selling from our strategic reserve. We &#8211; and the world &#8211; can expect to hit tank bottom between July and October . There&#8217;s talk of us going into Lebanon to work with the Lebanese and Israeli armies to disarm Hezbollah. This could be Afghanistan all over again, with possibly even worse casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, to celebrate, Adam Klasfeld is going to do a Substack video in which he simply reads aloud the concurring opinion of Justice Jackson in the Birthright Citizenship case. It doesn&#8217;t need to be watched live &#8211; I almost never watch them live &#8211; within an hour after a Substack video ends, a recording of it comes up. I&#8217;ll put a link in a comment when it&#8217;s available which you are welcome to ignore. Adam says that it is very moving &#8211; and that even Justice Roberts&#8217;s opinion is moving, but not quite moving enough to read aloud. He intends to start at 1 pm Eastern, so I would think it would be available as a recording by about 3 pm Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/white-house-religious-liberty-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>&#8216;s morning memo from Monday &#8211; yes, it&#8217;s late &#8211; covers a variety of topics and enough of the sections are still accurate that I went ahead with it. Particularly the first one, about the White House Religious Liberty Commission Report.<\/p>\n<p>This story was referenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/sermersooq.gl\/kl\/2026\/06\/24\/open-letter-to-robert-price-ceo-of-greenland-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dekleptocracy<\/a> with no source link, and it took me a while to find a respectable one. I don&#8217;t know whether Price has responded &#8211; but I would not believe a word from him. He is a Trump**(*) ally.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Substack video from <a href=\"https:\/\/jojofromjerz.substack.com\/p\/packed-my-ass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JoJo from Jerz<\/a>, with blistering mockery of the Apricot Antichrist and his version of a state fair &#8211; and his habit of exaggerating crowd size as if it were the size of genitals (which to him it probably is.) You can bring up the full transcript as usual, or read an alternate version (each has something the other doesn&#8217;t, but the structure is similar, and there is overlap.) I can&#8217;t help loving the way she paints with words to make so vivid what we are all thinking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOIvwpnUtOM?si=g_CAjjY3-l2o14HC\" 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\/s-y27R_-K38?si=IoJxkXjOAjcDTiji\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swamp.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swamp-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swamp-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swamp-768x716.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as every day since February 28, I watched Malcolm Nance&#8217;s &#8220;warcast&#8221; (or in this case &#8220;moolahcast.&#8221;) I always keep CC on. At one point Malcolm said, as clear as day, &#8220;Strait of Hormuz.&#8221; The CC said &#8220;straight of hormones.&#8221; Does AI have a sense of humor? I would find that absolutely terrifying. The rest <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/03\/open-thread-july-3-2026\/' 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":[31,3,47],"tags":[7555,7556,4355,4531,7557,3865,6397,7120,3811,7559,7551,7554,7558],"class_list":["post-59614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-news","category-personal","category-religion","tag-freedom-250","tag-great-american-state-fair","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-extreme-mockery","tag-middle-east","tag-miscellaneous","tag-oil","tag-personal","tag-religious-liberty","tag-swamp-creatures","tag-us-territories","tag-world-oil-reserves","category-31-id","category-3-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614","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=59614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59620,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614\/revisions\/59620"}],"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=59614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}