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Amanda Guinzburg

@guinz.bsky.social
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Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker amandaguinzburg.substack.com

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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In light of the Cornell 7 atrocity, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie owes NY a clear explanation for his refusal to bring Bill A101, which closes the 'voluntary intoxication loophole,' to a floor vote. It has repeatedly passed the Senate (S54A/S10632) and has a bipartisan majority in the Assembly.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You Can Buy A Keychain amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/you-can-bu...
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You Can Buy A Keychain
Afterward, I am alone, and I go to the beach, and it is late afternoon, almost dusk, and the sky is a color blue that only happens in September, deep, deep blue, and the ocean is perfectly calm, almos...
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Surely one thing the Google AI can do is find a train for a specific date in the afternoon from Grand Central to a stop in Connecticut, she thought, more than a year after her viral ChatGPT debacle... Yeah, no. cc: @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/09/2026
I spoke with providers at Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend about how Trump and Republicans' historic Medicaid cuts are making it harder for them to help cancer patients, seniors, sexual assault survivors, and more. Congress needs to put patients first & REPEAL TRUMP’S MEDICAID CUTS.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pure evil.
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ana and her kids had unexpired green cards, valid into the 2030s. ICE detained them for 58 days for staying abroad about 6 weeks too long, then deported them. Locked up, her son asked, "Why are we here? I love this country." They were banned for 10 years.
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Parents are Giving Up Green Card Fights to Get Their Kids Out of Immigrant Jail
As children languish in detention, a federal judge sics an independent watchdog on ICE.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Took=Kidnapped
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In honor of the birth of beloved NFL hero @michaelianblack.bsky.social, I have removed the paywall from this interview I conducted with him in the Spring of 2023, during which time he had fled the Americas under questionable circumstances & great duress. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/arrivederc...
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Arrivederci To All That
Michael Ian Black In Exile
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No pillow & no primary for the esteemed Mike Lindell. : (
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The only thing the prosecution of Lindsay Clancy has proven so far is what a horrific nightmare finding sustained relief from serious mental health issues too often is within the American excuse for a medical system.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After years of warnings & neglect, federal & state officials race to address Iranian hackers assault on🇺🇸water supply. Biden’s EPA’s rules—which merely required states to routinely check if water utilities HAVE cybersecurity—were rescinded in 2023. @sonaar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“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...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Worth remembering that this is the Year of the Horse.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No one had to go to that dinner, and anyone could have stood up and left once they were there. Pathetic.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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-...
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As ICE continues its extrajudicial killing spree, here is the piece I wrote back in January. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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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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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Call me crazy, but you'd think Mitch McConnell might have something to say about the passing of Lindsey Graham...
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wrote about the dying art of American soft power and where you can still find it. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Little Frog's Tail
The Ancient Art of Soft Power
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 30/06/2026
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.
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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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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Please stop saying girl dad. Thank you so much.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fighting back against limitless AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...
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New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I can't prove it (yet), but I do believe OJ's death mended a loose stitch in the Knicks' space-time continuum.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Maybe next time, don't run the guy with the nazi tattoo? I dunno, just over here spitballing.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The lens is mightier than the sword.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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A Perfect Descent
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wrote about Nineties nostalgia, Gen X trauma, quotidian mayhem, and going to Outer Space. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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A Perfect Descent
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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...
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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
⚡️ 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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/05/2026
Call her and let her know you want her to do this.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/05/2026
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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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Raise your hand if a 'foreign' doctor has ever saved you or someone you love. ✋
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Would someone please explain to me why Matt Dillon caught this stray?
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is why we need T H E B A L L R O O M
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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 @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
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.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is not a tenable way to live.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/04/2026
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...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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)
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how 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. Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how 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.
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
One good thing: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Quick reminder that each and every day of what we are living through is absolutely fucking insane.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
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 @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2026
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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