Anna Lind-Guzik
@alindguzik.bsky.social
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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Anna Lind-Guzik
@alindguzik.bsky.social
· Jan 24
A (State) Failure of Imagination
To believe things can get better, we must first accept they can get worse.
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I wrote about the massive failure of imagination that brought the US to this point.
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“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
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Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
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New podcast episode alert! 🚨 This week, @alindguzik.bsky.social chats with Babs Daitch, the octogenarian "lesbian Forrest Gump", about why she never stays anywhere for too long—and the life lessons she's learned along the way.
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 This week, @alindguzik.bsky.social chats with Babs Daitch, the octogenarian "lesbian Forrest Gump", about why she never stays anywhere for too long—and the life lessons she's learned along the way.
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
Just because reporting on Trump’s rapes hasn’t produced the results we’ve wanted in the past doesn’t mean current and future reporting won’t have impact. And I say this as someone deeply disappointed in our society and media for not making more of this story for years.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Just because reporting on Trump’s rapes hasn’t produced the results we’ve wanted in the past doesn’t mean current and future reporting won’t have impact. And I say this as someone deeply disappointed in our society and media for not making more of this story for years.
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
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I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
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apnews.com/article/turk...
Prosecutor seeks 2,352-year jail term for Istanbul's jailed mayor over alleged corruption
Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
apnews.com/article/turk...
“Did MeToo go too far?”
Every couple weeks we get more evidence that the president is a pedophile and rapist, and that our elite institutions are rife with people who knew this, had proof of his crimes, and didn’t care to share
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Did MeToo go too far?”
Every couple weeks we get more evidence that the president is a pedophile and rapist, and that our elite institutions are rife with people who knew this, had proof of his crimes, and didn’t care to share
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Every couple weeks we get more evidence that the president is a pedophile and rapist, and that our elite institutions are rife with people who knew this, had proof of his crimes, and didn’t care to share
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Here is Kathy Ruemmler, the former White House counsel under Obama, corresponding in a chatty way with Epstein, 10 years after his plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here is Kathy Ruemmler, the former White House counsel under Obama, corresponding in a chatty way with Epstein, 10 years after his plea deal.
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I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
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In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
Every new Epstein-Trump revelation is damning, yes, but when I think about how much we already knew about Trump’s predation, other rapes, and general involvement with Epstein back in 2015-2016, it’s amazing it took this long to sink in.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Every new Epstein-Trump revelation is damning, yes, but when I think about how much we already knew about Trump’s predation, other rapes, and general involvement with Epstein back in 2015-2016, it’s amazing it took this long to sink in.
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they elected and have been covering for THEE main epstein guy, like they were trying to decode pictures of pizza and meanwhile started worshipping the guy with an epstein punch card
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
they elected and have been covering for THEE main epstein guy, like they were trying to decode pictures of pizza and meanwhile started worshipping the guy with an epstein punch card
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This Veterans Day, we published interviews with three trans service members affected by the military ban.
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I Find Hope in Simply Still Being Here”
Three trans service members speak out on the military ban, and the rise of transphobia in the United States.
conversationalist.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This Veterans Day, we published interviews with three trans service members affected by the military ban.
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
Looking this up and omg no wonder media literacy is in the trash. Easier than ever to look words up yet we’re teaching kids to skip the hard parts and/or invent things
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Looking this up and omg no wonder media literacy is in the trash. Easier than ever to look words up yet we’re teaching kids to skip the hard parts and/or invent things
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They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
This Veterans Day, we published interviews with three trans service members affected by the military ban.
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I Find Hope in Simply Still Being Here”
Three trans service members speak out on the military ban, and the rise of transphobia in the United States.
conversationalist.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This Veterans Day, we published interviews with three trans service members affected by the military ban.
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
“I find hope in those who refuse to accept silence as safety. People are organizing, speaking out, pushing back against the narrative that some of us are less worthy of dignity or service.”
the bar is in hell but it gives me hope that people are mad about indiscriminate murder
things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the bar is in hell but it gives me hope that people are mad about indiscriminate murder
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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"The growing anti-trans narrative wasn’t just a culture war skirmish, it was a symptom of something deeper and more dangerous: a coordinated effort to undermine democratic norms by turning vulnerable groups into political targets." The latest by Jen Rainin of Frankly Speaking Films.
“I Find Hope in Simply Still Being Here”
Three trans service members speak out on the military ban, and the rise of transphobia in the United States.
conversationalist.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"The growing anti-trans narrative wasn’t just a culture war skirmish, it was a symptom of something deeper and more dangerous: a coordinated effort to undermine democratic norms by turning vulnerable groups into political targets." The latest by Jen Rainin of Frankly Speaking Films.
ah yes the Iliad, which happens to be maximally gay and not written between 1870 to 1930
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ah yes the Iliad, which happens to be maximally gay and not written between 1870 to 1930