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“My heart breaks for the United States of America. It breaks for those who think they are my enemies as much as it does for my friends. You still have your freedom, so use it. There are many groups organizing for both resistance and subsistence, but...

My heart breaks for the United States of America. It breaks for those who think they are my enemies as much as it does for my friends. You still have your freedom, so use it. There are many groups organizing for both resistance and subsistence, but we are heading into dark times, and you need to be your own light. Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind.

Source: thecorrespondent.com
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Facing a Trump administration, NYC may push its immigrant data kill switch“In 2015, New York City launched a municipal identification program with the goal of giving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents access to services that require an ID....

Facing a Trump administration, NYC may push its immigrant data kill switch

In 2015, New York City launched a municipal identification program with the goal of giving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents access to services that require an ID. Mayor Bill de Blasio gave the plan vocal support, saying the card represented “who we are: New Yorkers who value equality, opportunity, and diversity.”

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New York was warned of the problems that might arise when it first enacted the IDNYC plan. As far back as October 2014, immigration advocates were questioning the unintended consequences that could result from retaining the underlying information on cardholders — whether it would be a way for immigration officials to target undocumented immigrants, or even whether the federal government might exercise laws like the Patriot Act to obtain it. 

But the city opted for a system that retains underlying documents, with provisions that destroyed them after two years. It did, however, contain a kill switch: the city can prevent law enforcement use by changing how the data is stored, including by deleting it. A councilman said in 2015 that the kill switch was “in case a Tea Party Republican comes into office” — but now the option, which also goes into effect if the city takes no action, is under closer consideration.

Source: theverge.com
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Trumpistan Week One: The Unthinkable Slowly Becomes Normal“Any abuses of power Trump may commit — attacking the media; unleashing the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, or to pardon his cronies; or using other arms of the state to...

Trumpistan Week One: The Unthinkable Slowly Becomes Normal

Any abuses of power Trump may commit — attacking the media; unleashing the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, or to pardon his cronies; or using other arms of the state to intimidate his opposition — will be accepted and even defended by the overwhelming bulk of the Republican Party. Any controversy will recede into the normal din of endless partisan debate.

Trump may simply govern like an ordinary Republican, or at least a modern one, like George W. Bush. But if Trump decides to marshal his powers to crush his opposition, Republicans will have his back, and to most Americans the controversy will play out much like the Clinton email story or the Billy Bush tape. It will be the partisan war extended incrementally into new frontiers. There won’t be tanks in the streets all of a sudden or a firebombing of the Constitution. It will be the step-by-step acceptance of the unthinkable as normal. Many of those steps have already happened.

Source: New York Magazine
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Autocracy: Rules for Survival“I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. It...

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I have learned a few rules for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect. It might be worth considering them now:

Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization.

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Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. It took Putin a year to take over the Russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral system; the judiciary collapsed unnoticed. The capture of institutions in Turkey has been carried out even faster, by a man once celebrated as the democrat to lead Turkey into the EU. Poland has in less than a year undone half of a quarter century’s accomplishments in building a constitutional democracy.

Source: www2.nybooks.com
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An American Tragedy“ Trump was not elected on a platform of decency, fairness, moderation, compromise, and the rule of law; he was elected, in the main, on a platform of resentment. Fascism is not our future—it cannot be; we cannot allow it to be...

An American Tragedy

Trump was not elected on a platform of decency, fairness, moderation, compromise, and the rule of law; he was elected, in the main, on a platform of resentment. Fascism is not our future—it cannot be; we cannot allow it to be so—but this is surely the way fascism can begin.

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It is all a dismal picture. Late last night, as the results were coming in from the last states, a friend called me full of sadness, full of anxiety about conflict, about war. Why not leave the country? But despair is no answer. To combat authoritarianism, to call out lies, to struggle honorably and fiercely in the name of American ideals—that is what is left to do. That is all there is to do.

Source: newyorker.com
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The Banality of Donald Trump

The emphasis on the banality of Eichmann, the stammering, sniffling middle-class bureaucrat, the joiner looking for his own advancement within a bureaucratic system, exposes not the literal, visible evil of a fascist leader but the self-serving, motive-less obedience such a leader inspires among his followers. Evil is not one man, but rather the process of normalization via which exclusion, deportation, and finally extermination are all rendered morally justifiable.

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