"if those in power carry it out with impunity"

Friday Seven // 003

// 1. Easiness. It's been so hard, it's easy to make things harder, like that's virtuous. It's not.

// 2. Going out. One protest I went to this week became two stories.

// 3. What's illegal v. what's against the law. "...something cannot be illegal if those in power carry it out with impunity, regardless of whether or not it is against the law."

// 4. Archiving something of your own. Such as: "some of Roland Barthes’s handwritten slips of paper for Fragments d’un discours amoureux in refashioned cigar boxes" (via Barthes Studies)

// 5. Attention-setting. "When your enemy wants you disoriented, your ability to focus is an important means of self-defense." - Kelly Hayes, in her newsletter Organizing My Thoughts.

// 6. Talking it out. Technically, this was last week. The episode of Death Panel with Bea, Jules, and me talking out the through-line in some of the executive orders that have come down since January 20th is out now.

// 7. Logging off. As in:

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