Amy Shefrin
@amyshefrin.bsky.social
Working to change health care policy and other losing causes. Passionate about anti-racism in action, corporate power, wealth inequality, philanthropy, voting rights, and accountability for insurrections. Based in Brooklyn.
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Amy Shefrin
@amyshefrin.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Just for you Starter Pack of Comedians and Comedy Writers.
Let's show that BlueSky can be funny. It is funny! Sure, it can be funny. It just needs lights, stage, an open mic.
go.bsky.app/2MhbfY2
Mi familia! We just love to party!
At our volunteer appreciation party, I saw the faces of a movement that changed the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who knocked on a door, called a friend, put up a sign, or convinced their family this election was worth their time.
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Mi familia! We just love to party!
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
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It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
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There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.
The whole state of Idaho banning all vaccine mandates should be bigger news! If you want your grandmother's nursing home or your daughter's day care to require nurses and teachers to vaccinate, you literally can't! None of them are allowed to require that.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.
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I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11?
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
![PROBE RIPS ANDY IN $130M HUD MESS
By Deborah Orin
Published Sep. 10, 2001, 4:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON – Federal watchdogs today will testify that Andrew Cuomo’s “lax oversight” let crooks loot a housing program for the poor that will now cost taxpayers $130 million to bail out.
At issue is Cuomo’s role as Bill Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development and his pet home-ownership program for the poor, which collapsed in scandal.
Today’s bipartisan congressional hearing was called by Rep. Sue Kelly (R-Westchester), with Reps. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) – who backs Cuomo’s gubernatorial rival Carl McCall – and Felix Grucci (R-L.I.) also expected.
“Decisions made during [Cuomo’s] tenure opened up this program to widespread fraud and abuse while the concerns of federal investigators were ignored,” Kelly said.
The program was supposed to help poor people fix up housing. But instead, it left tenants stuck in 719 homes – including almost 200 Harlem brownstones – that are mostly a mess, in foreclosure and, in some cases, without heat.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/bafkreihyqpupyp3u22r7upavo3tpwgtjgseq5ay77oq6vodleupm75cqny@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11?
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Throwback to my favorite Halloween mishap from 2023. My daughter has recovered.
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Throwback to my favorite Halloween mishap from 2023. My daughter has recovered.
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At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
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In the past, Gov. Hochul has called raising most taxes, even on the wealthy, a hard "no." She softened the stance today. "I have a lot of calculations to do," Hochul says. "There's a lot of popular phrases out there... But I am open to trying to help people who are struggling"
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In the past, Gov. Hochul has called raising most taxes, even on the wealthy, a hard "no." She softened the stance today. "I have a lot of calculations to do," Hochul says. "There's a lot of popular phrases out there... But I am open to trying to help people who are struggling"
Is there a bigger sign of an authoritarian government?
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Is there a bigger sign of an authoritarian government?
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I just want a four way split screen on election night
Mamdani, Sliwa, Cuomo and Bill Ackman
Mamdani, Sliwa, Cuomo and Bill Ackman
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just want a four way split screen on election night
Mamdani, Sliwa, Cuomo and Bill Ackman
Mamdani, Sliwa, Cuomo and Bill Ackman
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In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.
Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing Antifa
In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.
Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Sure, sure, Hitler rose to power with disinformation and propaganda. But it also took capture of the courts and paramilitary in the streets.
A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army www.vox.com/politics/465...
A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army
The justices could hand Trump the power to deploy troops anywhere, anytime — and against Americans.
www.vox.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sure, sure, Hitler rose to power with disinformation and propaganda. But it also took capture of the courts and paramilitary in the streets.
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Because he can: Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Because he can: Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
TFW you see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social standing right in the same spot you were a few days ago. 😭
Come join a canvas and meet your neighbors! www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
Come join a canvas and meet your neighbors! www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TFW you see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social standing right in the same spot you were a few days ago. 😭
Come join a canvas and meet your neighbors! www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
Come join a canvas and meet your neighbors! www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
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Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
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a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
Zohran’s Golden Bachelor ad is great but it’s just a rip-off of an ad someone made for Valentine’s Day where they sang “Will You Be My Democrat?” ❤️ Now that guy had RIZZZZZZ!
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Zohran’s Golden Bachelor ad is great but it’s just a rip-off of an ad someone made for Valentine’s Day where they sang “Will You Be My Democrat?” ❤️ Now that guy had RIZZZZZZ!
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A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the epidemic.
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
nyti.ms
September 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the epidemic.
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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
www.rollingstone.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.
From me for @rollingstone.com:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Congrats to the happy couple!!! 🎉
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Congrats to the happy couple!!! 🎉
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The most quoted stat re expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies is from KFF - that avg enrollee costs will rise 75%.
But that analysis is from 2024, and the actual increase, per the IRS's setting of the % of income enrollees will pay in 2026, is higher.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/worse-than...
But that analysis is from 2024, and the actual increase, per the IRS's setting of the % of income enrollees will pay in 2026, is higher.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/worse-than...
Worse than forecast: An updated look at pending cost increases for ACA marketplace enrollees
If the ARPA subsidy schedule expires, increases for subsidized enrollees will be higher than KFF forecasted
xpostfactoid.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The most quoted stat re expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies is from KFF - that avg enrollee costs will rise 75%.
But that analysis is from 2024, and the actual increase, per the IRS's setting of the % of income enrollees will pay in 2026, is higher.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/worse-than...
But that analysis is from 2024, and the actual increase, per the IRS's setting of the % of income enrollees will pay in 2026, is higher.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/worse-than...