{"id":59729,"date":"2026-07-17T05:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59729"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:17:39","slug":"open-thread-july-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/open-thread-july-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 17 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Kegsbreath announced that all military personnel would be required to take testosterone level tests, and, if indicated, to get testosterone therapy. If this is not the definition of &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what would be. (And, as I have often said, saying &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; no more implies that all masculinity is toxic than saying &#8220;counterfeit money&#8221; implies that all money is counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2026\/07\/09\/army-orders-mass-shutdown-of-official-social-media-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is all about<\/a> &#8211; but it certainly seems to be odoriferous, not in a friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>I trust no one is surprised <a href=\"https:\/\/atlblackstar.substack.com\/p\/the-ohio-florist-who-berated-a-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by this<\/a>. Evil people are evil.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect anyone to be surprised <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-real-message-of-trumps-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by this<\/a> either. I think y&#8217;all are paying enough attention that you probably predicted it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wonfi-F9yNs?si=SbxsVRHssygKQKE3\" 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\/_NPKLhceS2A?si=wzyiaFu_EqzIxb5E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SAVE-e1784267328752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Kegsbreath announced that all military personnel would be required to take testosterone level tests, and, if indicated, to get testosterone therapy. If this is not the definition of &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what would be. (And, as I have often said, saying &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; no more implies that all masculinity is toxic than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/open-thread-july-17-2026\/' 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":[4355,4408,4111,7603,4186,3811,6955,3792,4631,7602],"class_list":["post-59729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-armed-forces","tag-cats","tag-john-quincy-adams","tag-karma","tag-personal","tag-presidential-speech","tag-robert-reich","tag-social-media","tag-the-save-act","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\/59729","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=59729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59735,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59729\/revisions\/59735"}],"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=59729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}