politics

Florida ramps up its effort to break the Union

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The Florida legislature has now blatantly joined Florida’s Governor in open contempt for peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with progressive states or with the District of Columbia.  Last fall, Florida governor Ron DeSantis joined other Republican governors in arranging and funding the transport migrants in southern border states to destinations in northern states and in the … Read more

Revisiting self-care as a political act

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I hate the term “self-care.” It is always sounds too woo-woo to me. It carries connotations of superficiality, summoning up the image of people relying on scented candles to handle oppression, injustice, subordination. Because the phrase has been hijacked by “influencers” and by marketers, it can seem that self-care is not-politics, that it requires inattention … Read more