--IF YOU DON'T LIVE HERE, please feel free to: Express sympathy and sadness; Ask how people are doing; Donate to charities helping those affected. All of those things are needed and are accepted with enormous, heartfelt gratitude.

OTHERWISE, and I know it's a tough ask for the internet, but--

--you're repeating something you heard on Fox News or worse, from the incoming president, who knows even less than you do about what's going on in my city. As a wise person once said: Remember, shutting the fuck up is always an option.

Thanks. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to rake a forest.

other parts of the american right are starting to take tips from the AfD too, including people with power, influence and connections within the party. i saw this firsthand at the annual new york young republican club gala this week www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...