Sabrina Hersi Issa

same, Garfield. same.

Oh wow! I needed this too! 🥰🤓💙💜

Oooh is it time for a @rude1.blacksky.team Etsy store?!

thank you for joining!

It is a joy to platform world builders! Thank you for working to make the Internet a place for community, joy and imagination again. (more to come!) 🥳

To borrow one of @beingbrina.bsky.social 's favorite questions to ask:

How are you sourcing hope right now?

ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court Barbara Stone was handcuffed and held by federal agents for hours, according to her family; she was accused of pushing an ICE officer, which she denies.

When I say most people are good and we are going to beat these fascists, people like this woman are why I feel so confident:

“The message that it sent was very clear: For us to be afraid to come back and do the work that we’re doing,” Mendez said.

Stone, however, said she would volunteer again.”

This is the funniest thing I've read in months:

I’ve been locked out of my Bluesky account and the hurdle to fixing/resetting met the Venn diagram of: Too Busy Because the World is on Fire and Do Not Care. But we made it back.

Woke never crashed planes or the economy out of spite and incompetence, just saying

How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.

Pushback works, part gazillion:

"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
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Thank you so much for the kind words and your work! Please keep going. We need you and trusted science! 💙

Trust is consistency built over time. Trust is consistency built over time.  Back in 2016-ish, I was on a team of analysts evaluating and assessing a range of infrastructure investments and interventions to counter the white supremacist ...

Just read @beingbrina.bsky.social's latest newsletter. And my goodness, the way discussions of trust in science would benefit from this perspective.

TRUST IS EARNED, NOT SOMETHING TO BE GAMED OUT.

"Trust is consistency built over time" sabrina.ghost.io/r/5a06e37a?m...

Creative protests & resistance to fascism are happening everywhere. Keep standing up, even in the reddest states. It matters that others see your courage.

I love days that remind me that even as all the things are difficult I get to connect and work with amazing humans trying to make the world and our country better. It’s like a mix of luck, alchemy and delulu and I’m here for it.

Stolen scaffolding An old mentor of mine is one of the world’s leading experts on analyzing extremist and insurgency movements. She is old school in the way that she uses a flip phone and doesn’t do email but savvy to h...

Where I tell Democrats and progressives to stand on business. sabrina.ghost.io/stolen-scaff...

Thank you for those kind words! 🥹

Friday morning recommendation: If you're not on @beingbrina.bsky.social's email list, you need to GET ON IT NOW. Every time she drops into my inbox, I feel a little thrill of knowing I'm about to be challenged, inspired, and moved all in one fell swoop.

Yes! You! Did! It always works out!

Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

Don’t let fear prevail! You got this!! 🏆

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May you have the group text you deserve and need to buoy you through these times.

What I’ve learned from wildfires where my family and friends lost everything and political disruption where your communities safety and livelihoods are thrown in jeopardy is that you get 1 week (MAYBE 2 weeks if you’re lucky) before the “circling back” emails start up again…

My thug tears run! 🥹😭

I’ve been nervous to start writing in public again for *all the reasons* but I’m thankful to know my message resonates right now.

The War on Work Shame is a powerful weapon of control.  Crooked, lying, fake. These are the slurs mainstreamed by Donald Trump to describe the work of journalists and truth-tellers. It is projection and deflection i...

This moment is hard & I think it’s pretty normal to feel beaten down & question your ability to influence positive outcomes in the world. I found this piece by @beingbrina.bsky.social to be a really powerful antidote to that sort of creeping pessimism

We made it baby!

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."

Lina Khan really is That Girl.