Amanda Guinzburg
@guinz.bsky.social
Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
No one had to go to that dinner, and anyone could have stood up and left once they were there. Pathetic.
This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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This is the direct consequence of Trump's policies to move resources from Medicaid to tax cuts. When RFK Jr. and Vance say they are eliminate fraud in the healthcare systems, these are the types of families affected.
Lizzy Lawrence@lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 3w agoPowerful, important read from @rosebroderick.bsky.social. As states absorb Medicaid funding cuts, family caregivers face financial ruin: www.statnews.com/2026/07/13/f...
As ICE continues its extrajudicial killing spree, here is the piece I wrote back in January. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
Now I Can't Believe
We didn’t know to whom or precisely where or exactly when this would happen, but we knew it would happen.
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Call me crazy, but you'd think Mitch McConnell might have something to say about the passing of Lindsey Graham...
I wrote about the dying art of American soft power and where you can still find it. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
Little Frog's Tail
The Ancient Art of Soft Power
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If you think criminalizing mere possession of disfavored information will stop with so-called Antifa, ask yourself why the admin sought warrants to learn who subscribed to Don Lemon on YouTube. Read more from FPF’s @seth-stern.bsky.social and @joinjeremy.org in @theintercept.com.
30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech
Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information.
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Catching up on the @ichotiner.bsky.social interview with Netanyahu ally, Shimon Riklin, a TV anchor from Israel's version of Fox News...I literally spat out my beverage at this exchange.
I can't prove it (yet), but I do believe OJ's death mended a loose stitch in the Knicks' space-time continuum.
Maybe next time, don't run the guy with the nazi tattoo? I dunno, just over here spitballing.
I wrote about Nineties nostalgia, Gen X trauma, quotidian mayhem, and going to Outer Space. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
A Perfect Descent
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.
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In which you actually maybe *can’t* just steal writers’ work to train your water-guzzling sycophantic robots. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
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⚡️ 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
Call her and let her know you want her to do this.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 3mo agoNEW: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is considering redistricting in light of the Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS ruling vanquishing minority voter protections. “If Trump is going to attack fair voting, then New Jersey is going to stand up so that we can create a counterbalance,” says Sherrill.
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.
Raise your hand if a 'foreign' doctor has ever saved you or someone you love. ✋
Arielle Zionts@ajzionts.bsky.social · 3mo agoHundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to depart the country and abandon their plans to treat underserved patients if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, immigration attorneys told me. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
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!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "'86' is a mob term for 'kill him.' They say 86 him! 86 47 means 'kill President Trump.''James Comey, who is a Dirty Cop, one of the worst, knows this full well! EIGHT MILES OUT, SIX FEET DOWN! Didn’t he also lie to the FBI about this??? I think so! President DJT"
Would someone please explain to me why Matt Dillon caught this stray?
Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.
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...
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...
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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