{"id":59791,"date":"2026-07-27T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59791"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:10:44","slug":"open-thread-july-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/27\/open-thread-july-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 27 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil. and we played Cribbage. He asked me to thank you, Lona, for your birthday wishso &#8211; Many Thanks. Also yesteray, Heather Cox Richardson posted more 1-minute videos in her &#8220;250 to 250&#8221; series, which she might continue through December &#8211; since July 4 is past.. I have been sharing very few on individuals &#8211; not that that means I haven&#8217;t been leaving out some major events, because I have. I said when I started I would not possibly be able to share all of them. If you want to see what you are missing, all of them from the beginning (and last week was week #9), are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@heathercoxrichardson\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her YouTube channel<\/a> &#8211; mixed in among her readings of\u00a0 her &#8220;Letters from an American&#8221;, her &#8220;Politics Chats,&#8221; and other videos, but they are clearly marked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/professor-sets-an-ai-trap-and-catches-32-students-red-h-2000117892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From The Root<\/a>. Sorry, kids, humans &#8211; especially professors &#8211; are generally smarter than AI.<\/p>\n<p>I for one never think about<a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/an-important-epstein-files-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> judges working<\/a> on Saturdays. However &#8211; court doesn&#8217;t need to be in session for them to be working &#8211; and if thre was ever a time and place for a judge who respects his oath of office to be working overtime &#8211; the time is now and the place is here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OLwOH-PDA6A?si=rzNxfJUBwVjvPrmx\" 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\/NZRkHn81mMM?si=bKyezSbD32-2IQ5e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/investigate-scale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil. and we played Cribbage. He asked me to thank you, Lona, for your birthday wishso &#8211; Many Thanks. Also yesteray, Heather Cox Richardson posted more 1-minute videos in her &#8220;250 to 250&#8221; series, which she might continue through December &#8211; since July 4 is past.. I have been sharing very few <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/27\/open-thread-july-27-2026\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[7646,4355,4146,7644,4531,6839,3811,5366,7645,5858],"class_list":["post-59791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-250-to-250","tag-animals","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-congressional-investigations","tag-dogs","tag-epstein-files","tag-personal","tag-rodents","tag-shays-rebellion","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\/59791","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=59791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59795,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions\/59795"}],"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=59791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}