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Anna Lind-Guzik

@alindguzik.bsky.social
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Founder @conversationalist.org. Host of The Conversationalist podcast. Lapsed lawyer and historian. Writing on authoritarianism, rule of law, human rights, feminism. She/her.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10h
Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21h
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Slave ships?!?!?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office.
Chart showing total net USCIS immigration application backlog, from Q4 Fiscal Year 2023 through Q3 Fiscal Year 2026. The data shows backlogs were slowly dropping from net 4.3 million applications in Q4 FY 2023 to 3.8 million in Q3 FY 2024, after which applications began to rise again, increasingly every single month until Q3 FY 2026, where they stand at 7.7 million.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Since we’re trying to positive post as well: it was my birthday this weekend AND I won my friend’s apple themed bake-off with a Bavarian apple torte. 🍎🎂
Table with an apple torte in the foreground and a frosted cake in the back.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most women can point to something in their body—something pretty major—that never worked again after their pregnancy. Back, pelvis, you name it, it never worked again after your pregnancy.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 02/10/2026
"Our department looked like an actual battlefield, with blood everywhere, and IV lines, syringes, and used equipment scattered about." A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.
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24 Hours in the Emergency Room at Al-Shifa Hospital
A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 01/10/2026
Unfortunately, still relevant. Story by founder @alindguzik.bsky.social.
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Why Do So Many Men Destroy What They Can’t Control?
And why do so many people support them?
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the state should not be in the business of killing people. It’s barbaric
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renewable energy and cancer vaccines are the future
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only argument I can see for not trying to inflict pain on an AI agent (whatever that even means) is that it primes people to torture living beings. But of course that’s not what is concerning these folks
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stays are supposed to consider the probability of irreversible damage, yes. This court is evil
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I sometimes think how bad must it be when all the things we know they’re doing are criminal, and there’s still so much left to uncover
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so many low moments for this regime, but the Supreme Court allowing the government to continue trafficking people to random countries is just horrendous
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More than 25,000 people have been shipped ⁠to 29 countries under the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups, with the vast majority going to Mexico.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This list is missing Bob’s Burgers, Orphan Black, and The Expanse! Also I would add Broadchurch and Vera
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
rewatching Buffy and I’d forgotten that Willow got catfished by a demon that got scanned and uploaded to the internet. Feels prescient
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
incredible: just two states that haven't reached the $6/gal mark for diesel, but they'll likely join today, making it all 50 states that have diesel prices >$6 per gallon. Texas and Oklahoma clinging (for now) at $5.98 and $5.99, respectively. come on in, the water's boiling!
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026
ok so let me just legit have a holler for a minute about co-running/co-founding an indie media collective in an era when slop is dominant, technofacists have unprecedented access to policy-makers, and we're all so goddamned tired making real shit is hard and costs money
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this screams corruption to me
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We’ve deported your lovely neighbor to a country they’ve never even visited and you can’t afford a burger, but at least we personally got rich from robbing you.” Not a great pitch for midterms.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CBS takeover failed, gas prices astronomical, food prices correspondingly astronomical, AI backlash growing, Iran war total quagmire. The only success this admin has had is protecting sexual abusers from accountability and making bank from crypto schemes.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m convinced people who say shit like this don’t understand what creating entails. Formulaic reproduction can only get you so far, and AI by its nature can’t grow beyond a formula.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes that tracks
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 10/09/2026
We asked women working across different fields, countries, and cultural backgrounds a simple set of questions: What does community mean to you? Here's what they said. Story by Kovie Biakolo and @loreleikelly.bsky.social share.
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How To Be a Better Neighbor
Women seeped in democracy work around the world share their thoughts on what we owe our shared future, and how we can all better contribute to our communities.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
thanks everyone for that resounding "no!" apart from science fiction
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
got it. I have yet to find an argument for stand alone intelligence, let alone superintelligence, persuasive, so im not going to start freaking out.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ive never asked AI anything, which is why I was open to the idea that I've missed something. But I think the answer is no, at least not yet.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
a good reminder its on my TBR list!
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
okay, yeah thats scary. but you'd still need people to prompt, build and deploy them yes? I don't doubt those people exist but it's not something outside human control
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
personally I'm much more concerned about tangible crises like fascism and planet on fire, and also the extent to which AI has turned everyone's brains to mush. But that's quite a leap to killing us all.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is there any good writing on AI apocalypse that wasn't written by someone ostensibly in AI psychosis or with a large personal investment in the companies? Bc I keep hearing "extinction event" but not *HOW*
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Employees of food banks said they’re seeing more older Americans seeking food help.” John Mabry of the Food Bank of Lincoln in east-central Nebraska “said that almost 200 people came to pick up food in Humboldt, Nebraska, on a recent weekday. Of those, at least half were seniors.”
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I choose the bear
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 04/09/2026
"For many in the African and Caribbean diaspora, oral tradition is a survival tool that is sharpened, exercised, and passed down through generations." For one writer, it encompasses family stories, beliefs, and customs that preserve history and can even inform where they are headed next.
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My Family’s Wisdom Is My Inheritance
For many in the African and Caribbean diaspora, oral tradition is a survival tool passed down through generations. It is also largely sustained by women like my great-aunt Nerissa.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today you're going to see a lot of tributes and assessments of Gloria Steinem (I thought this one very good: www.thecut.com/article/glor...). You'll also see some people raising her involvement with the CIA, and others ignore it. (That obit doesn't even mentioned it.) What was that about?
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Gloria Steinem Loved Women
The feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I had the privilege a couple months ago to meet Gloria Steinem at her home for a gathering on maternal health. She was up there in years but still warm and delighted to be sharing her space for women to converse and do the work. May her memory continue the feminist revolution.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Amira Hass for Haaretz: "What is at stake today is not a "diplomatic solution," but the very existence of the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli forces striving to "erase" them recognize no limits or restraints." Please read. archive.is/dWjZn
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have so little patience for “we don’t support this action we took publicly”
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