{"id":56898,"date":"2025-05-29T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56898"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T02:16:19","slug":"open-thread-may-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/29\/open-thread-may-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 29 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Various people were still talking about Scott Pelley’s commencement speech at Wake Forest<\/a>, mostly in glowing terms (although I’m sure MAGAts had other opinions.) Wonkette linked to a transcript of it, so you can judge for yourself. I think it’s worth the time. Also, the Nature Conservancy<\/a> shared aome footage on the mating rituals of the greater prairie-chicken, including sound. It’s funny, because it’s kind of a little allegory of males of every species – or so it appeared to me and Trinette. You may not agree.<\/p>\n

Yes, this from Joyce Vance<\/a> is from Tuesday. She is concerned that it isn’t (or wasn’t then) getting much if any coverage, and she may still be correct about that.<\/p>\n

John Pavlovitz<\/a> would be the first to tell you that he struggles with major depression (and, yes he has sought and received treatment for it, with all that implies. If you’re not familiar with the concept of the wounded healer, you can look at him and get an idea.) So the current regime is terribly hard on him – as of course it is on us. But, as he points out, joyis not just feeling good – it is also a weapon- a defensive weapon, but still a weapon.<\/p>\n

Not really news from the Brennan Center<\/a> – at least, not to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. But not being news does not mean it isn’t still a problem, especially since we have a modern Roger Taney SCOTUS.<\/p>\n