Miamians Are Going on Twitter to Ask Donald Trump to Deport Their Exes.
According to the New Times, “dozens of folks,” many in the Miami area, are tweeting addresses and photos, some cc’ing the police, in the hopes of getting their revenge. They have screenshots of examples.
“I pledge to give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. I pledge to work toward a world where everyone may sit under their own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid. A world that scatters light and not darkness in our paths, and makes us all in our several vocations useful here, and in due time and way everlastingly happy.”
Also 20 ideas on how to navigate the coming times from Yale History Prof. Timothy Synder. Here are just the first three:
1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You’ve already done this, haven’t you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.
2. Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you are making them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions don’t protect themselves. They go down like dominoes unless each is defended from the beginning.
3. Recall professional ethics. When the leaders of state set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become much more important. It is hard to break a rule-of-law state without lawyers, and it is hard to have show trials without judges.
UM Law alumnus Reince Priebus profiled in NYT Mag as Reince Priebus, Normalizer in Chief and in Miami Herald puff, Before making his name in politics, Priebus was a force at Miami law school . The Herald article includes this:
Without exception, more than half a dozen people interviewed for this story who knew Priebus during law school described him as affable, thoughtful and kind.
Andrew Moss, who was in the same first-year section as Priebus, recounted to a Miami Herald reporter an anecdote about going to grab a bite at Wendy’s with Priebus when they were working on a project. A homeless man lay outside. Priebus didn’t have much money, Moss said, but he bought two meals and gave one to the man.
Say what you will, he’s Trump’s least crazy appointee so far — by several miles. Whether he’ll have actual power with alt-right Bannon down the hall remains to be seen.
Is Paul Ryan’s Dream of Gutting Medicare About to Come True?
The Donald Trump transition website states that the administration will “modernize Medicare”—a euphemism, according to Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young at the Huffington Post, that corresponds exactly to what Ryan has in mind.
I wonder how the maker of that sign is going to feel?
Greg Popovich is famous as the basketball coach who doesn’t give interviews, or gives one-word answers to silly questions. Although my favorite had three words — his reply during a game in the Finals when he was asked for his second-half plan and he said “Score more points.”
Well, he can sure talk when he wants to, as captured in this article in the – San Antonio Express-News, Gregg Popovich uncensored: Full transcript of thoughts on Donald Trump.
Rumor is that Rudy Giuliani has a good chance of becoming the next Attorney General thanks to his deranged TV performances on behalf of the Trump campaign. That means it’s time to dust off the memory cabinet, and point readers to Rudy Giuliani’s Ferret Freak-Out. The guy really hates ferrets, although I hasten to add that this alone is not disqualifying. No, the real problem is that it isn’t the only way he’s scary crazy and has been for some time.
And, by the way, Giuliani still sounds better than the other name being floated – Chris Christie. At least with Giuliani the odds that he will be indicted in the next year seem remote.
PS. Oliver Willis’s web site, which hosts the ferret freakout audio, seems to be the victim of a DOS attack in which someone has persuaded various filtering businesses — including the one forced on us in violation of academic freedom/access to information principles at my University — to label it as having malware. I’ve complained.
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