{"id":56818,"date":"2025-05-21T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56818"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:39:53","slug":"open-thread-may-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/open-thread-may-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 21 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, As I was going through my emails looking for news, my radio station began to play Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony. And it put into my mind another comparison between Jesus and the Mango Monarch. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection.” Trump**(*) said, “I am your retribution.” It might make a decent meme, but I don’t think I could stand the process of looking for the right pictures – of either of them actually – Christian art can be (not always , but you’re bound to trip over it) so saccharine I’d worry about getting diabetes.<\/p>\n

This by Dan Froomkin<\/a> is also from last week. It’s from Substack, but if you look at the URL, you will see it’s a bit different from the usual Substack URL. I don’t know whether Froomkin or Substack made that decision, but I concur with it.<\/p>\n

Also from last week, this one from the F* News<\/a>. You may know about the MRFF (Military Religious Freedom Foundation) – I did – or not, but you may not know about The Orders Project – I did not – and both are doing excellent and important work. Also, there were very few comments when I read it, but 50% of them expressed relief to learn they exist – and we all need some relief – not complacency, I don’t mean that, but we don’t need to feel like everything depends on us alone either, when in fact there are other people doing work, and in many cases work which is critical but for which we may not be suited.<\/p>\n