Comments on: Open thread 7/7/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Niketas Choniates https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810448 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:19:23 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810448 @Selfy:Trump considered running but was not a candidate, as you claimed. Words have meanings.

By that logic, only the people actually nominated by a party are ever “running” or a “candidate” for President, so Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush never “ran” or were “candidates”? That’s not how we use those words.

He had formed an exploratory committee, set up a campaign website, and was for some time publicly seeking their nomination. You can call that something different from “running” or being a “candidate” if you wish.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810423 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:09:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810423 Never mind …

]]> By: Selfy https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810412 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:35:09 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810412 >@ Niketas: “A former third party candidate is in the Oval Office at the moment.”

>Citation, please?

>”Is Google down? Must be. Here you go. ”

From your links: “One, it could influence whether Mr. Trump, Mr. Ventura’s choice for the party’s presidential nomination, decides to run. ”

Trump: ” I have therefore decided not to seek the presidential nomination of the Reform Party.”

Trump considered running but was not a candidate, as you claimed. Words have meanings.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810408 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:10:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810408 And now for something completely OT…

The Barbarella remake is coming along. With Sydney Sweeney!
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I can’t say too much, but it’s really going to come together in a very, very fun and big way. It’s a long process. I don’t think people realise how long some things can take, but it’s gonna be worth the wait…

–Sydney Sweeney
https://collider.com/barbarella-remake-update-sydney-sweeney/
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Fun and big, huh?

This could work. It doesn’t sound like Sweeney is going to girlboss this one. Barbarella (1968) and The Fifth Element (1997) may finally have some competition for sexy, stylish, insane sci-fi.

]]> By: Ackler https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810403 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:42:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810403 It’s the 20th Anniversary of ‘7/7’. This appears to have been largely forgotten outside of the UK, and even there, a muted commemoration.

Next year will be the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. I’m sure the commemoration will be significant, but still muted. By the 30th Anniversary (even if, hopefully, ‘President Vance’ is in office), I expect it to be as quiet as today’s 7/7

]]> By: Philip Sells https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810395 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:55:14 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810395 Were there any survivors among the cherries?

]]> By: SD https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810390 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:21:10 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810390 Worst Photoshop edit ever! Hakeem Jeffries bends space in funny Photoshop error – Repost

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/07/worst-photoshop-edit-ever-hakeem.html

]]> By: Niketas Choniates https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810389 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:14:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810389 @sdferr: BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the “big beautiful bill’s” provision to defund Planned Parenthood.

Blocked by one Indira Talwani, appointed by one Barack Obama, in Boston Massachusetts, confirmed 94-0 by the US Senate in 2014 so upward of 39 GOP senators voted for her.

I wonder what legal reasoning there is to say that Congress can’t fund or defund something.

On another thread the rising political influence of Indian-Americans had come up.

]]> By: James Sisco https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810384 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:38:40 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810384 “We’ll see who has a drinking problem” – Isn’t that the truth.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/07/open-thread-7-7-2025/#comment-2810375 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:07:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142734#comment-2810375 Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the “big beautiful bill’s” provision to defund Planned Parenthood.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1942345612906594650

pdf of the TRO is at the link.

lol, words.

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