ah, yeah. abandoning all pretense of remotely plausible reason-giving is striking. I wonder, is it really diff from the torture memos? I'd like to believe Ryan is right (about a new baseline demand for accountability); certainly seems the pendulum is going to swing that way, at least for a minute

Can the U.S. Legally ‘Run’ Venezuela After Maduro’s Capture? Here’s What to Know.

see, e.g., a NYT headline in response to today's news

of course, one can (and should) ask both whether the admin's actions are legal and whether they are immoral. but I hear Joe writing against a real tendency for the former to box out and cloud the latter, as a tool of consent manufacturing

can't claim to speak for Joe (Margulies, author of the piece we published), but I don't read him—in this piece, or his broader work—as denying that power shouldn't account for itself.

I think his concern here is how legality debates suck the oxygen out of so much public discussion (con'd)

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Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."

Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time

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What Are Families For? - Boston Review A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

"If our economic system cannot be made to sustain the very structures of social reproduction it makes essential to human flourishing, then we need new structures, or a new system."

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thanks for the life raft!