Amanda Guinzburg
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Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/
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A Perfect Descent
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.
https://open.substack.com/pub/amandaguinzburg/p/a-perfect-descent?selection=d80b7cba-51ba-41e3-ae1e-f44e1fdc9c52&r=fqcw&utm_medium=ios
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I wrote about Nineties nostalgia, Gen X trauma, quotidian mayhem, and going to Outer Space.
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A Perfect Descent
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.
https://open.substack.com/pub/amandaguinzburg/p/a-perfect-descent?r=fqcw&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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In which you actually maybe *can’t* just steal writers’ work to train your water-guzzling sycophantic robots.
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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publishers-turow-meta-zuckerberg-lawsuit-copyright.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The Tennessee Holler
21 days ago
⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee
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Mueller, She Wrote
24 days ago
Call her and let her know you want her to do this.
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Senator Patty Murray
25 days ago
The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.
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Raise your hand if a 'foreign' doctor has ever saved you or someone you love. âś‹
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Sandra Newman
26 days ago
It's worse than that! Do you know why 6 was afraid of 7? It's because 7 8 9. That's right—if you add a 7 before the 8 and cross out the 6, this is a threat to eat the president. Don't let your president get eaten by 7! Build the ballroom NOW!
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Would someone please explain to me why Matt Dillon caught this stray?
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about 1 month ago
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wes(is no longer)injapan
about 1 month ago
Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.
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This is why we need T H E B A L L R O O M
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Emily M. Bender
about 1 month ago
A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools
As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/call-for-five-year-pause-on-gen-ai-in-schools%E2%80%8B
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 2 months ago
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754
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Brian Beutler
about 2 months ago
If you're gonna use the term, save TACO for situations where Trump can reverse himself, and damage is financial or abstract. This is not that. This is a madman taking the world hostage, causing death and global chaos, sparing us from civilizational ruin for his own opaque reasons. No moving past it.
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Republicans Chose Armageddon Over Checking Trump—They Just Got Lucky
It can not be bygones and quiet relief. Democrats must try to remove Trump from power, even if Republicans block them, because he's shown he'll hold the whole world hostage.
https://www.offmessage.net/p/republicans-chose-armageddon-over
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This is not a tenable way to live.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 2 months ago
The State Department should do everything in its power to secure the release of U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson — who was kidnapped in Baghdad Tuesday — without escalating the illegal war that may have endangered her in the first place.
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Race on to find US journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Iraq - Committee to Protect Journalists
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, April 1, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to secure the release of U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapp...
https://cpj.org/2026/04/race-on-to-find-us-journalist-shelly-kittleson-kidnapped-in-iraq/amp/
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Brad Lander
2 months ago
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
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One good thing:
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Quick reminder that each and every day of what we are living through is absolutely fucking insane.
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
CROCKETT: Professor, are you saying you believe it's constitutional for the US to blow up people that are accused of being drug traffickers? "It's not going to be a yes or no answer" CROCKETT: I'm going to stop you there. It's unconstitutional.
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Christopher Webb
2 months ago
Rand Paul: “I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force.” The entire confirmation hearing in one sentence.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
Read other letters from kids detained at the Dilley detention center:
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no…
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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ProPublica
2 months ago
WATCH: Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. In January, we asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to Ariana tell her story: 📽️
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Chris Geidner
2 months ago
An astounding statement from a federal judge about the executive branch, generally; the Justice Department, more particularly; and these subpoenas, specifically.
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Slotkin served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst and was the Asst. Secretary of Defense overseeing International Security policy for Russia and the Middle East before ever running for Congress. People would do well to listen to her.
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It was 80 degrees in NYC yesterday. Snow is expected later this morning. Everything's fine!
3 months ago
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I'm finding conscious awareness to be highly overrated lately.
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Been wondering what Olympic Figure Skating has to do with The Traitors, Murder Trials, The Epstein Files, Holy Grail skincare products, Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, and Minnesotans singing to ICE? Well then, have I got the essay for you.
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Leave This Behind
On Winter Trials
https://open.substack.com/pub/amandaguinzburg/p/leave-this-behind?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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Dr. Antifa Wine Mom, MD, MPH
3 months ago
“I hope this news brings some joy to all who need to hear it,” she said. “As an important side note, I would like to be called Dr. Öztürk, not Miss Öztürk, from now on.” 👏👏👏
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RĂĽmeysa Ă–ztĂĽrk completes doctorate at Tufts nearly a year after harrowing ICE arrest
The Turkish national and Tufts University student was swept off the streets of Somerville last year by masked immigration agents. In a social media post this week, she announced she's completed her do...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/02/20/ozturk-phd-tufts-ice-immigration
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Ok, listen, it's 2026, and my nervous system is SHOT. I don't need to jump three feet in the air like I'm competing in the fucking Cortina half-pipe because of an Emergency Road Closure Alert on my phone!!!
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Kyle Cheney
3 months ago
đź‘€The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says.
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Made me weep.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
https://www.themountaineer.com/news/no-crypto-in-canton-town-blocks-data-center-developments/article_5df7a4bf-2ef0-4e89-8bd7-31e8d3001ee5.html
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Mark Harris
3 months ago
This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop.
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N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/nyregion/stonewall-flag-protest-nyc.html
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)
3 months ago
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians.
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
https://shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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TPM
3 months ago
Minneapolis was economically devastated by Operation Metro Surge, writes James Beard-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, suffering $10-$20 million in weekly losses. "This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
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Congress, Don’t Give DHS a Blank Check to Undermine Our Local Economies
This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congress-dont-give-dhs-a-blank-check-to-undermine-our-local-economies
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Dow has dropped below 50k, so I guess we can ask Pam what she plans to do about the million mentions of her boss in those files now.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
3 months ago
Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121
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House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-save-america-act-trump-backed-election-bill-rcna258614
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Karl Bode
3 months ago
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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southpaw
4 months ago
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
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Paul Eric
4 months ago
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
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Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/opinion/liam-ramos-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I1A.6ixr.-7Sacsc5CXbU&smid=url-share
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Rachel Maddow
4 months ago
granular, practical, well organized info here:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/
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Taniel
4 months ago
In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/ice-agents-shatter-window-leave-1-month-old-baby-mother-in-car-after-portland-arrest/?uuid=8322f2e4-2ac1-48fb-8e7c-0e0ac94b5378&lid=222199
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Julian Sanchez
4 months ago
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Bruce Springsteen
4 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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"I don't like that he had a gun."
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MONSTERS.
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Elliott Payne
4 months ago
ICE has been back at it with their illegal activity today. Abducting multiple neighbors in the Ward, physically assaulting observers, coming into businesses threatening that they will be back to arrest people for no reason. If they come back today, they’re going to have to go through me first.
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