Matt Lord

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Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social

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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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To understand the long arc that got us to this moment, please read this extraordinary, aching, furiously brilliant essay by @morefius.bsky.social—on the murderous nexus of exceptionalism, conspiracy, and capitalism at the heart of American politics

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."

Will Holub-Moorman reviews Melissa Kearney & M. E. O'Brien:

thanks for the life raft!