{"id":57217,"date":"2025-07-17T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57217"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:40:59","slug":"open-thread-july-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/open-thread-july-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 17 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I had a good night’s sleep the previous night. I suspect because, though heaven knows I have plenty of stuff to worry about, major changes in my medications aren’t among them. Also, this from John Pavlovitz<\/a> caught my eye, and since it’s in the periphery of politics rather than being actually political, I decided to put it in as an extra. It just makes sense that authoritarian men (and women) are weak, since they need the assurance of authoritarian power. Egalitarians would naturally be stronger, because by definitions they (we) have faith in their (our) own judgment.<\/p>\n

This from Lever News<\/a> has a few popups, including, ironically, one for a popup blocker. But they all closed and I could read the whole article. However, I went to archive.is for those who don’t like popups – and, also ironically, the archived version<\/a> has a frozen popup – it only hides most of the title and part of a photo, and the article is intact. Either should work.<\/p>\n

This is from the “Wolves and Sheep” Substack<\/a>, which is not part of but does have a relationship to Bowers News Media, to which I do subscribe. It doesn’t state much, if anything, which isn’t obvious if you think about it. But who has time to think in this chaos? And there’s alwaus a need for Captain Obvious, because the obvious, exactly because it is obvious, can be difficult to see as obvious, as opposed to being a given (and therefore safe to ignore.) I for one am grateful that someone – someone on our side – is not ignoring it.<\/p>\n