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.
conversationalist.org
I wrote about the massive failure of imagination that brought the US to this point.
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This is wishful thinking. Most people don’t do shit, especially when the person screaming is more powerful than them.
The thing is. Imagine if anyone spoke to you like this in real life. There's approximately a 50% chance you'd punch them in the face. Every day is such an utter fucking disgrace to the presidency.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This is wishful thinking. Most people don’t do shit, especially when the person screaming is more powerful than them.
This is him ON CAMERA. He’ll be ten times worse when they’re not around. Nothing but contempt for everyone who watched this happen and said nothing.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is him ON CAMERA. He’ll be ten times worse when they’re not around. Nothing but contempt for everyone who watched this happen and said nothing.
Nicki Minaj helping Trump start a conflict with Nigeria was not on my bingo card
Minaj will join the U.S. Amb Waltz, to deliver remarks Tuesday at UNHQ, spotlighting “violence committed against Christians in Nigeria”.
Waltz complimented her in a tweet Sunday, calling her a "principled individual who refuses to remain silent in the face of injustice."
Waltz complimented her in a tweet Sunday, calling her a "principled individual who refuses to remain silent in the face of injustice."
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Nicki Minaj helping Trump start a conflict with Nigeria was not on my bingo card
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
bringing back indentured servitude as government policy, what could possibly go wrong
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
bringing back indentured servitude as government policy, what could possibly go wrong
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UK looks to Denmark for tougher asylum policies on.ft.com/4oLneZO
UK looks to Denmark for tougher asylum policies
Changes announced by home secretary Shabana Mahmood aim to cut number of people seeking to become refugees
on.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
glad she’s saying it, because she carries a lot weight at Harvard, and he should not be teaching students anymore.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
glad she’s saying it, because she carries a lot weight at Harvard, and he should not be teaching students anymore.
UK’s Labour is a case study in how catering to people’s worst impulses on immigration and the LGBTQ community ruins center-left parties
"Outside of the most exceptional circumstances family reunion, will not be possible [for refugees]" Shabana Mahmood tells MPs
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
UK’s Labour is a case study in how catering to people’s worst impulses on immigration and the LGBTQ community ruins center-left parties
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Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
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The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
You could argue they didn’t want to understand bc it was too scary, but Trump literally promised he’d be a “dictator from day one”
I'm saying people did not understand that basic small-d democratic guardrails would be destroyed on day one
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You could argue they didn’t want to understand bc it was too scary, but Trump literally promised he’d be a “dictator from day one”
we put criminals in charge of three branches of government and they’ve broken everything and sold it for parts
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
we put criminals in charge of three branches of government and they’ve broken everything and sold it for parts
They must be hesitating bc we wouldn’t want to ruin the workplace replacing him with a low-IQ woman
Has Larry Summers lost a single position yet?
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
They must be hesitating bc we wouldn’t want to ruin the workplace replacing him with a low-IQ woman
Has Larry Summers lost a single position yet?
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Has Larry Summers lost a single position yet?
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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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...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
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.
apnews.com/article/turk...
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.
apnews.com
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...