Last week, I watched the Attorney General of the United States sneer at the rule of law and felt sick. I’ve been a federal trial lawyer for decades, and there was the titular head of American law defecating on it to applause from Fox News, who called Bondi’s performance “entertaining.”

Who gives us permission to live fully? How do we break the chains? 

Despite repeated judicial rulings rejecting Trump’s 2020 election claims, he persists. Proving that his ego burned through his prefrontal cortex and seared his last shard of reasoning capacity, after his attempt to extort Minnesota voter rolls failed, Trump’s FBI raided an election center in Georgia and seized them directly. Both acts were preludes to a dangerous fantasy, one that ends in “taking over” national elections.

For a long time, I believed teaching meant leaving parts of myself at the door, after focusing on a full-time career that made me feel like I had to dress a certain way, talk a certain way, and act a certain way to “fit in” with the then Miami-based journalism crowd.