Amy Shefrin

@amyshefrin.bsky.social

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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.

Tweet from January 6, 2021 at 2:18pm, with the text:

Don’t ignore a coup.

In 1923, Hitler led a failed coup and went to jail for a year for treason. 10 years later he took power through legal means - (1) Taking over the judiciary and (2) Paramilitary violence in the streets.

What happens now matters.

Link to Slate interview with Third Reich historian Richard Evans: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/historian-richard-evans-says-trumps-america-isnt-exactly-like-the-third-reich-but-its-too-close-for-comfort.html

Andrew Cuomo tweet on X:
“My plans for NYC?
-Jobs, jobs, jobs
-A cop on the block, a cop on the train
-Build Baby Build
We can do this, NYC - join me!”

Zohran Mamdani speaking today at Nowadays at a party for campaign volunteers: “You know how I know it’s working - It used to be enough for the President of the U.S. to say “He’s a Socialist!” But now he calls me a Communist. Because the socialism just isn’t hitting the way it used to.”

Photo of Max (formerly HBO) merch I won at auction (there was no competition), including Max branded ice chest, T shirt, mug, and baseball cap.