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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Yesterday, I held a music festival in my district to register voters and speak directly to young people who don’t usually attend political events. 4,500 tickets. Music + advocacy go hand in hand. Madsoul Festival 2025 was a success.
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Yesterday, I held a music festival in my district to register voters and speak directly to young people who don’t usually attend political events. 4,500 tickets. Music + advocacy go hand in hand. Madsoul Festival 2025 was a success.
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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What the Court does in the firing case needs to be read together with what the Court has already done in West Virginia v EPA, where the Court invented something called “the major question doctrine” which bars government agencies from making major decisions without direct Congressional direction.
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What the Court does in the firing case needs to be read together with what the Court has already done in West Virginia v EPA, where the Court invented something called “the major question doctrine” which bars government agencies from making major decisions without direct Congressional direction.
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The #SupremeCourt is about to consider whether the President can fire govt agency heads despite Congress having said the President cannot. Critics of the President and the Court are saying the Court wants the President to be all powerful. And some hope to seize those reins in 2029. Not so fast.
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The #SupremeCourt is about to consider whether the President can fire govt agency heads despite Congress having said the President cannot. Critics of the President and the Court are saying the Court wants the President to be all powerful. And some hope to seize those reins in 2029. Not so fast.
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No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.
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Today's great news is here!
Duckworth Blasts Trump's Abuse Of Power As AOC Battles His Greedy Tariffs and Somalia Rises Against His Racist Garbage Remarks
Onward!
www.dworkinsubstack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's great news is here!
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it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.
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RT IF YOU LOVE UNIONS! ❤️🔥
It's day twenty-six of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Hopewell, NJ have the best signs 🥰
It's day twenty-six of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Hopewell, NJ have the best signs 🥰
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
RT IF YOU LOVE UNIONS! ❤️🔥
It's day twenty-six of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Hopewell, NJ have the best signs 🥰
It's day twenty-six of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Hopewell, NJ have the best signs 🥰
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This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians
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Quite cold in Central Park this morning, as you can tell from this puffed-up female Northern Cardinal! I love Cardinals all year-round, but especially in winter. 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Quite cold in Central Park this morning, as you can tell from this puffed-up female Northern Cardinal! I love Cardinals all year-round, but especially in winter. 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding
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There's really quite a substantial difference between "tribal people who venerate a god that makes them feel hot when they do some violence" (problematic but fundamentally reconciliable with human societies; genuinely not even that hard) and "the invading army of literal Satan"
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There's really quite a substantial difference between "tribal people who venerate a god that makes them feel hot when they do some violence" (problematic but fundamentally reconciliable with human societies; genuinely not even that hard) and "the invading army of literal Satan"
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Right. This is salient not least because in Faerûn, orcs genuinely aren't really that bad and if someone in your campaign is treating them the stereotypical way then you really should lose some good alignment points.
This is the fault of people confusing Lord of the Rings with Dungeons & Dragons
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Right. This is salient not least because in Faerûn, orcs genuinely aren't really that bad and if someone in your campaign is treating them the stereotypical way then you really should lose some good alignment points.
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conceptualising Mordor as exactly what the text suggests it is - the dominion of a mad fallen angel, intent on overwhelming men and elves and dwarves simply because they refuse to submit to his will - actually allows you to bypass, imo, any unpleasant moral questions about the orcs altogether
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
conceptualising Mordor as exactly what the text suggests it is - the dominion of a mad fallen angel, intent on overwhelming men and elves and dwarves simply because they refuse to submit to his will - actually allows you to bypass, imo, any unpleasant moral questions about the orcs altogether
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the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."
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"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:
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And of course there is Faramir's "I love not the sword" speech, which is easily the most important thing in the entire legendarium
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
And of course there is Faramir's "I love not the sword" speech, which is easily the most important thing in the entire legendarium
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Númenor's fall is precipitated by claiming dominion over all the earth, which, notably, only Actual Satan is also doing at the same time
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Númenor's fall is precipitated by claiming dominion over all the earth, which, notably, only Actual Satan is also doing at the same time
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Not just that, but everything. Gondor's geopolitical dilemmas are the consequence of dominating and antagonising the Haradrim and the Easterlings and considering themselves superior to all other men. Hell I mean in a very literal way Sauron and Morgoth are very literal and temporal imperialists
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Not just that, but everything. Gondor's geopolitical dilemmas are the consequence of dominating and antagonising the Haradrim and the Easterlings and considering themselves superior to all other men. Hell I mean in a very literal way Sauron and Morgoth are very literal and temporal imperialists
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as someone from a small country beset by larger powers aspiring to dominate it i always tend to assume that first and foremost tolkien's legendarium should be read as a postcolonial work: it is full of anxiety about the small being overwhelmed by the mighty and what that does to the soul
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
as someone from a small country beset by larger powers aspiring to dominate it i always tend to assume that first and foremost tolkien's legendarium should be read as a postcolonial work: it is full of anxiety about the small being overwhelmed by the mighty and what that does to the soul
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I mean part of Paramount’s pitch is that corruption will make it easier for them, lol.
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I mean part of Paramount’s pitch is that corruption will make it easier for them, lol.
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lol at the idea of the Trump administration having antitrust concerns about merging Netflix and HBO Max and not at merging all of Paramount and all of WB Discovery. Gimme a fuckin break.
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
lol at the idea of the Trump administration having antitrust concerns about merging Netflix and HBO Max and not at merging all of Paramount and all of WB Discovery. Gimme a fuckin break.
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“While this chilling campaign is vastly unpopular and often loses in court, its speed and scale are unprecedented in U.S. history,” Benavidez wrote.
The last few months, I’ve been working on a major project: analyzing the Trump admin’s hostile treatment of the First Amendment. That has led to today’s release of our @freepress.bsky.social report “Chokehold.” @brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com details our findings: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/m...
Analysis: Trump’s first year back in office contradicts his ‘free speech’ commitments | CNN Business
Nora Benavidez of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press set out to catalog the Trump administration’s First Amendment infringements. She soon had a list of almost 200.
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“While this chilling campaign is vastly unpopular and often loses in court, its speed and scale are unprecedented in U.S. history,” Benavidez wrote.
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Very poor framing for this piece. I think Trump II is such a challenge for conventional analysts compared to Trump I because it has added a racist civilizational layer to its narrative of grievance over free trade and NATO burden-sharing.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
Trump Has Long Disdained Europe’s Elites. Now, It’s Official.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Very poor framing for this piece. I think Trump II is such a challenge for conventional analysts compared to Trump I because it has added a racist civilizational layer to its narrative of grievance over free trade and NATO burden-sharing.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.