Lynn Gazis-Sax
@empressnorton.bsky.social
DevOps Engineer, speculative fiction writer in my spare time, Quaker. I enjoy singing in several languages. Used to be in Katie Porter's district till I got redistricted to Young Kim's district. She/they.
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Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)
February 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)
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This piece attempts to offer a comprehensive look at what's wrong with the theory of persuasion that the Dem consultant class is broadly still in thrall to, and why the events of the last year call for a major reassessment. Please check it out:
“[V]oters who tune out politics are regularly buffeted by gale force deluges of information from all directions. Their convictions about public policy—and their views on what the parties stand for—are shallowly rooted at best.”
Yep. Mass persuasion ≠ one-on-one persuasion of intimates.
Yep. Mass persuasion ≠ one-on-one persuasion of intimates.
How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
This piece attempts to offer a comprehensive look at what's wrong with the theory of persuasion that the Dem consultant class is broadly still in thrall to, and why the events of the last year call for a major reassessment. Please check it out:
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Two dead Americans but sure, OK.
Leavitt: "Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a resounding success"
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Two dead Americans but sure, OK.
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Eric Schmidt: As we approach the 4th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a brutal winter has taken hold. I recently visited the country as it faced the worst weather in five years, with temperatures plunging below -24C. Ukrainian soldiers spend up to 40 days in frontline positions
Ukraine’s no man’s land is the future of war
In drone vs drone combat, valuable personnel can be pulled back from the front
www.ft.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Eric Schmidt: As we approach the 4th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a brutal winter has taken hold. I recently visited the country as it faced the worst weather in five years, with temperatures plunging below -24C. Ukrainian soldiers spend up to 40 days in frontline positions
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On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Disingenuous Promise to Champion Free Speech
It is Donald Trump’s systematic campaign to stamp out dissent and punish those who disagree with him that will be remembered as among the most singularly un-American aspects of his disruptive tenure.
www.newyorker.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."
The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."
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Republican voter in Michigan: “What he’s doing with ICE is the worst thing. I would say the economy is the second worst thing. I’m getting ready to retire and I’m wondering how I’m going to make it. But I’m blessed. I don’t have to hide in the basement because my skin is brown.”
What independents think of Trump's recent immigration actions, according to a new AP-NORC poll
A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe that President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities.
apnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Republican voter in Michigan: “What he’s doing with ICE is the worst thing. I would say the economy is the second worst thing. I’m getting ready to retire and I’m wondering how I’m going to make it. But I’m blessed. I don’t have to hide in the basement because my skin is brown.”
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A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.
February 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.
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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. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
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Holding the humanities hostage by controlling our funding is like holding an ordinary person hostage by controlling their access to foie gras.
Can’t be done.
Can’t be done.
February 13, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Holding the humanities hostage by controlling our funding is like holding an ordinary person hostage by controlling their access to foie gras.
Can’t be done.
Can’t be done.
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Besides *waves hands frantically* everything else, does this person know what role funding plays in the humanities? Yes, there are historians who need to travel to get to archives, etc., but in general we in the humanities have tiny funding needs.
No labs! No staff of researchers!
No labs! No staff of researchers!
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Besides *waves hands frantically* everything else, does this person know what role funding plays in the humanities? Yes, there are historians who need to travel to get to archives, etc., but in general we in the humanities have tiny funding needs.
No labs! No staff of researchers!
No labs! No staff of researchers!
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Not only did the administration not accomplish its stated goal of targeting Somali fraud, it caused the US attorneys who were actually prosecuting the fraud to resign in disgust
This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost
Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Not only did the administration not accomplish its stated goal of targeting Somali fraud, it caused the US attorneys who were actually prosecuting the fraud to resign in disgust
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a reminder that DC remains under occupation
"At least one member of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source told WTOP."
wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...
wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...
Member of US Marshals Service shoots, kills person in DC’s Mayfair neighborhood - WTOP News
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person Wednesday afternoon in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood, a law enforcement source told WTOP.
wtop.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
a reminder that DC remains under occupation
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this case was first filed almost exactly 11 months ago. one-year anniversary on march 15
BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
February 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
this case was first filed almost exactly 11 months ago. one-year anniversary on march 15
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I'm of the opinion that the breakdown in American politics is at the elite level not the mass level. Low info voters behaved as they always behave. It was elected officials, business leaders, etc. that could have maintained the guardrails but did not.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I'm of the opinion that the breakdown in American politics is at the elite level not the mass level. Low info voters behaved as they always behave. It was elected officials, business leaders, etc. that could have maintained the guardrails but did not.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
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NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️
Agent investigated in Chicago woman’s shooting, her lawyer says
The attorney for Marimar Martinez says prosecutors told him the agent who shot her five times is facing a criminal probe.
www.ms.now
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️
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Here’s that passage from the ethics opinion
February 12, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Here’s that passage from the ethics opinion
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The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
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Another shooting case falls apart (this time ICE, not CBP).
These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
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These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Another shooting case falls apart (this time ICE, not CBP).
These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Also, I wonder if they waited on this dismissal until after Congressional testimony.
February 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Also, I wonder if they waited on this dismissal until after Congressional testimony.
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Two notes about this.
This was the VERY rare case where an FBI Agent, rather than an HSI agent, filed the affidavit. I gotta believe there's still enough institutional culture among Feebs to REALLY hate having been lied to. HSI not so much.
This was the VERY rare case where an FBI Agent, rather than an HSI agent, filed the affidavit. I gotta believe there's still enough institutional culture among Feebs to REALLY hate having been lied to. HSI not so much.
Another shooting case falls apart (this time ICE, not CBP).
These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Two notes about this.
This was the VERY rare case where an FBI Agent, rather than an HSI agent, filed the affidavit. I gotta believe there's still enough institutional culture among Feebs to REALLY hate having been lied to. HSI not so much.
This was the VERY rare case where an FBI Agent, rather than an HSI agent, filed the affidavit. I gotta believe there's still enough institutional culture among Feebs to REALLY hate having been lied to. HSI not so much.
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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On the one hand, the more Noem wastes bc of her own incompetence, the less she'll have for goons and concentration camps. On the other hand, the GOP cut $273M in cancer cure research last year to pay for shit like this.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
On the one hand, the more Noem wastes bc of her own incompetence, the less she'll have for goons and concentration camps. On the other hand, the GOP cut $273M in cancer cure research last year to pay for shit like this.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The speech is so well known, we often don't absorb its meaning. Lincoln speech opens stating clearly that the Revolution was to preserve equality and ends saying rule of, by, and for the people is what preserves it. See for yourself 2/2
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for The Gettysburg Address (1863)
constitutioncenter.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The speech is so well known, we often don't absorb its meaning. Lincoln speech opens stating clearly that the Revolution was to preserve equality and ends saying rule of, by, and for the people is what preserves it. See for yourself 2/2
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
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“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”