50 ways to win the midterms
The problem is all inside your head she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to win the midterms
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Quick decisions
Read more → More from Out of Many →Last week I went to a rally to protest a series of raids by ICE in my city. The rally turned into an unplanned march through the streets, and I had to make two quick decisions: first, whether to join the march, and second, whether to remain in the street when the police started to give warnings.
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Hannah Arendt on the role of reflection in political and moral behavior
Read more → More from Out of Many →Socrates, however, who is commonly said to have believed in the teachability of virtue, seems indeed to have held that talking and thinking about piety, justice, courage, and the rest were liable to make men more pious, more just, more courageous, even though they were not given either definitions or “values” to direct further conduct. What Socrates actually believed in in such matters can best be illustrated by the similes he applied to himself. He called himself a gadfly and a midwife, and, according to Plato, was called by somebody else an “electric ray”, a fish that paralyzes and numbs by contact, a likeness whose appropriateness he recognized under the condition that it be understood that “the electric ray paralyzes others only through being paralyzed itself. It isn’t that, knowing the answers myself I perplex other people. The truth is rather that I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself.”
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“Refusing the parlements their right of remonstrance was an act of despotism.
Read more → More from Duly Noted →“Refusing the parlements their right of remonstrance was an act of despotism. Liberty had taken shelter in them; it had chosen an irregular method of expressing itself; but since no one had given it another method, it was necessary to allow it that one.”
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Okoye’s Judgment Call
Read more → More from Out of Many →Warning: Black Panther spoilers.
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Shades of gray
Read more → More from Out of Many →What shade of gray would you say this is?
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Compromise and its discontents
Read more → More from Out of Many →It's easy to complain about "purity politics". It's easy to complain about "neoliberals" and "sellouts". But we live in hard times, and the easy route's not going to get us anywhere.
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If it takes starting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it
Read more → More from Duly Noted →So I read Kushner’s statement today, which includes the line “I am not a person who has sought the spotlight” and, well, I couldn’t help myself.
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“Law, Like Love” by WH Auden
Read more → More from Duly Noted →For Valentine’s Day, I want to talk about the poem I posted the other day, “Law, Like Love” by WH Auden, and why it means so much to me.
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Law, Like Love
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.
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What's left?
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Not giving up
Read more → More from Duly Noted →I visited House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz’s office today. If there’s nothing else good to say about him (and there may not be) at the very least his staff is warm and polite, even when you are implying things about their boss.
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Partisanship on display
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Note: tumblr ate the initial, more comprehensive version of this post. :( Feel free to ping me for more details.