Wikipedia’s American Crocodile
Email this morning from UM Police:
The University of Miami is aware that a crocodile has recently been seen in Lake Osceola. [MF note: the lake in the center of campus.] Signs are posted around Lake Osceola and near the canals on campus as a reminder of their presence. They may appear
Michael Froomkin
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Robot Law II is Now Available! (In Hardback)
Edited by Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin and Kristen Thomasen
‘Robot Law: Volume II assembles cutting-edge scholarship from leading experts, many of whom are regular contributors to the prestigious We Robot Conferences. This timely volume offers incisive analysis of pressing legal and ethical challenges posed by AI and robots; from autonomous machines…
Coral Gables Commission Run-off April 22-Voter’s Guide
There are just two candidates in the coming run-off election for the Group III seat in Coral Gables (when will they adopt ranked-choice voting and save us this trouble????):
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Vince Lago Campaign Has No Shame
I just got a shameful text message from the Vince Lago campaign. Recall that Lago is an ambitious Republican who has run a straight-up MAGA campaign in both this and the last election. His PAC is even called “Coral Gables First”. And now this:
Yes I know it says it is an independent expenditure not…
Coral Gables Hits New Pre-Election Lows
I don’t know that everything on this list is accurate, but I do believe that more than half of it is. That’s quite damning….
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Are Coral Gables Police Cooperating with ICE?
I’m about to go to the airport, so I don’t have time to investigate this, but I just got text message with no name attached, just the (alleged) source phone number 786 610-5260, claiming that the Coral Gables police signed a deal allowing CG police to act as ICE agents. There was no link, and…
Voter’s Guide to Coral Gables Election 2025
People have been asking me if I have recommendations for the upcoming Coral Gables elections. The problem is that local politics have become depressing, and given the state of national politics I don’t have much energy left over.
But. Yes, I do. Two of the races are easy, one a bit less so but no…
John Lithgow Reads Timothy Synder’s 20 Lessons On Tyrrany
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow by Timothy Snyder
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
Read on Substack
Shared by permission:
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AALS Letter on “Standing Together in Support of Higher Education and the Legal Profession”
The Association of American Law Schools today issued a strong letter on standing up for the rule of law.
AALS Letter on Threats to Law and Legal Education.
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You Should Subscribe to ‘Heads Up News’
My brother’s new project is Heads Up News, a weekly newsletter summarizing landmarks of the resistance.
There’s only so much there that will be new to doomscrollers, but even for them the totality of the content has value. For other people, those with lives, there’s a lot there they may want to know.
The…