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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ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...
February 17, 2026 at 4:19 AM
ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...
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Long-term, we need to make Congress a functional and truly co equal institution but also in that world I want federal judges to keep the energy they have gotten in touch with the last few months.
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Long-term, we need to make Congress a functional and truly co equal institution but also in that world I want federal judges to keep the energy they have gotten in touch with the last few months.
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There are so many good signs that we don’t talk about enough and the neighborhood organizing in MN and the efforts against ICE abuse and the organic community care for immigrants and people at risk and the volunteer observers
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 AM
There are so many good signs that we don’t talk about enough and the neighborhood organizing in MN and the efforts against ICE abuse and the organic community care for immigrants and people at risk and the volunteer observers
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My silver lining thought is that everyone I know who was wiped out before the holidays is now kind of still tired but getting a second wind re fighting the fascism and the bad stuff and anecdata-ly I have seen a lot of people doubling down
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
My silver lining thought is that everyone I know who was wiped out before the holidays is now kind of still tired but getting a second wind re fighting the fascism and the bad stuff and anecdata-ly I have seen a lot of people doubling down
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Honestly think that AOC would have a fairly easy time consolidating support within the Democratic establishment and that her real challenge is the media.
February 17, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Honestly think that AOC would have a fairly easy time consolidating support within the Democratic establishment and that her real challenge is the media.
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AOC being personable and friendly to other Dems isn't discussed as an asset the way for example Biden's senate relationships was but being pleasant and charming tends to get you places!
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 AM
AOC being personable and friendly to other Dems isn't discussed as an asset the way for example Biden's senate relationships was but being pleasant and charming tends to get you places!
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Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith
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As promised: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-thoug...
Five Thoughts About Marco Rubio's Munich Security Conference Speech
In the hotel where it happened.
danieldrezner.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
As promised: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-thoug...
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Yeah that was weird as hell. I’ll be writing about it tomorrow.
Also, I'm not sure he has clearly implied out loud before [checks notes] 'Europe needs to resume colonisation and imperial expansionism without guilt and then we'll get along with you fine', but I think I caught that. Maybe mine ears do play tricks on me.
February 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Yeah that was weird as hell. I’ll be writing about it tomorrow.
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“failure to understand the roots of civic nationalism in Western civilization, however, is to deny a key comparative advantage — its ability to absorb others from across the globe. It’s an even cruder reductionism of “civilization” than Samuel Huntington’s version, and that’s saying something.”
February 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
“failure to understand the roots of civic nationalism in Western civilization, however, is to deny a key comparative advantage — its ability to absorb others from across the globe. It’s an even cruder reductionism of “civilization” than Samuel Huntington’s version, and that’s saying something.”
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When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
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Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.
Much of Cuba Goes Dark as Trump Chokes Oil Supply
A Bloomberg News analysis of satellite imagery finds the level of light at night has dropped as much as 50% across Cuba amid Trump's oil blockade
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.
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A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.
A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.
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Telling Trump he will make the same mistakes as Obama did is one way to get his attention.
Obama lives rent free in Donald's head.
Obama lives rent free in Donald's head.
Notable message from President Zelensky. The USA is clearly putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over more of its land to dictatorial Russia.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
February 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Telling Trump he will make the same mistakes as Obama did is one way to get his attention.
Obama lives rent free in Donald's head.
Obama lives rent free in Donald's head.
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@dandrezner.bsky.social FWIW (only belatedly reading your Tillis thing), I think it may be a very conscious strategy. There is no way he can peel off his fellow Republicans by hitting Trump directly. But they all hate Miller, so provide them that (or similar) entree into Trump criticism.
February 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
@dandrezner.bsky.social FWIW (only belatedly reading your Tillis thing), I think it may be a very conscious strategy. There is no way he can peel off his fellow Republicans by hitting Trump directly. But they all hate Miller, so provide them that (or similar) entree into Trump criticism.
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Also really useful as Trump's favorables go underwater with white people (!!!).
Build some momentum.
Build some momentum.
Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
"I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again"
Notes on changing brains. And Brians.
www.thefarce.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Also really useful as Trump's favorables go underwater with white people (!!!).
Build some momentum.
Build some momentum.
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Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!
February 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!
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People need to understand what happened strategically in 2025. The US switched sides, helped Putin a great deal, which also encouraged the Chinese to help Putin. And Ukraine fought on, inflicting massive casualties on Russia and taking the war to the Russian economy.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM
People need to understand what happened strategically in 2025. The US switched sides, helped Putin a great deal, which also encouraged the Chinese to help Putin. And Ukraine fought on, inflicting massive casualties on Russia and taking the war to the Russian economy.
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I feel like we've all lost sight of the fact of the sheer magnitude of the failure of Putin's latest offensive, i.e. the one that began in 2024—mainly because it's been so baked into the day-to-day.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I feel like we've all lost sight of the fact of the sheer magnitude of the failure of Putin's latest offensive, i.e. the one that began in 2024—mainly because it's been so baked into the day-to-day.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
Far and away the least successful offensive we've seen in not just years, but decades.
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If you transcribe conversational speech absolutely verbatim leaving in every little filler sound and stutter, basically everyone sounds like an idiot and it’s an unreadable mess. Which is why, in general, nobody does that.
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 AM
If you transcribe conversational speech absolutely verbatim leaving in every little filler sound and stutter, basically everyone sounds like an idiot and it’s an unreadable mess. Which is why, in general, nobody does that.
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Papers don’t quote ANYONE like this. Normal human speech is LOUSY with ums, uhs, and doubling short words (a, I, the). You clean that up as a matter of course.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 17, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Papers don’t quote ANYONE like this. Normal human speech is LOUSY with ums, uhs, and doubling short words (a, I, the). You clean that up as a matter of course.
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(3) Voting is a right enshrined in the constitution, which would be materially burdened by a novel requirement to show documentation tens of millions of citizens don’t have readily available. Being a masked and anonymous cop is not a constitutional right.
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
(3) Voting is a right enshrined in the constitution, which would be materially burdened by a novel requirement to show documentation tens of millions of citizens don’t have readily available. Being a masked and anonymous cop is not a constitutional right.
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Treating this nonsense more seriously than it deserves:
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Treating this nonsense more seriously than it deserves:
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
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Every normal police deparment looking to arrest a suspect in their home needs to get a warrant, and always has (with a few very narrow exceptions). This has not made ordinary policing impossible.
February 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Every normal police deparment looking to arrest a suspect in their home needs to get a warrant, and always has (with a few very narrow exceptions). This has not made ordinary policing impossible.
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I mean, that would be fine if it were true. Obeying the Constitution makes it unfeasible to do certain things, and that’s fine—indeed, it’s sort of the point. But it’s also sort of absurd to act like getting a warrant to execute a home arrest is some crazy insuperable barrier.
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"
February 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I mean, that would be fine if it were true. Obeying the Constitution makes it unfeasible to do certain things, and that’s fine—indeed, it’s sort of the point. But it’s also sort of absurd to act like getting a warrant to execute a home arrest is some crazy insuperable barrier.