What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Sheilbh]

Never thought I'd see the day where Brazil has stronger safeguards for democracy than the US, but here we are now.

Yeah although I think it's less safeguards than that I think they've got a lot of people with relatively recent memories of the military dictatorship and an elite with a very politicised judiciary that decided (having removed Dilma and jailed Lula) that Bolsonaro was more a problem, so they got Lula out very early to beat him electorally.

But I think Bolsonaro trying to stage a coup was then crossing a red line (and, I'd add, the US was opposed to it - had Trump been in office things might have gone very differently).

I think American politics is looking very and increasingly American in ways that I think many in DC used to look down on/draw distinctions with.

[viper37]

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in 'McCarthy era' move

The University of California, Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 faculty members and students as part of an investigation into "alleged antisemitic incidents", a move a targeted scholar likened to a "practice from the McCarthy era".
UC Berkeley, a top-ranked public institution, sent a letter to affected members of campus last week disclosing that university lawyers had included their names in reports to the Department of Education's office for civil rights (OCR). The education department has been targeting colleges across the country as part of Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism, international students and academic freedom.

Judith Butler, a prominent feminist philosopher and queer theorist, received the letter from David Robinson, UC Berkeley's chief campus counsel, which said OCR was investigating "allegations of antisemitic harassment and discrimination" and "required production of comprehensive documents".
Butler, a Jewish scholar who has been critical of Israel, said on Friday that they had questioned Robinson about the disclosures and said he provided no information on the specific allegations.
"We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves," they said. "But none of that has happened, which is why we're in Kafka-land ... It is an enormous breach of trust."

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[garbon]

But of course. Cal sucks.