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Lauren Sabina Kneisly

@sabina.kneisly.org
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Activist: Queer Nation, ACT-UP, WHAM, BARF, clinic escort, Feminist. Queer Femme, Bastard/adult adoptee, T2D, Covid infuriated, masking. Spent the last couple decades researching wingnuts. A cranky Cassandra at times linktr.ee/laurensabinakneisly

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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 16/09/2026
Folks, I need you to act. The decision has already been made for U.S. CBP to change the personal importation rules, a right we held for 25 years to be able to ship in medications from other countries for personal use. Oct 22 that right will be stripped. Fight for us. www.personalimportation.org
personalimportation.org
Medications | Personal Importation
The Advocacy & Education third annual Campaign for Personal Prescription Importation (CPPI) survey results show that 94% of respondents cite cost as the primary reason for ordering from a licensed.
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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 16/09/2026
Remember, the US government actively wants to make sure its citizens are poor, sick and dead. "If patients are forced to return to U.S. pharmacies and domestic pricing, Wade said some could face thousands of dollars in additional costs each year." www.rochesterfirst.com/news/health/...
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New U.S. customs rule could impact international medication shipments
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A new customs requirement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection could delay or disrupt some international mail shipments to the United States, potentially creating added …
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 09/09/2026
His violent fucking fantasies are pathological. Don't just shrug and scroll on, he and his MUST be removed. It's not a matter of waiting on some election. Every day people suffer, are tortured, some die due to this regime holding power, and it won't be confined by borders, he's made that clear.
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 25/08/2026
I pointed at these articles back 2020 when people were treating Dolly Parton as some sort of gay patron saint, ignoring her racist Dixie Stampede history. Unfortunately, these pieces are paywalled, this is the workaround to get to "Springtime for the Confederacy" slate.com/culture/2017...
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At Dolly Parton’s Civil War–Themed Dinner Theater, There’s Violence on Many Sides
At Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede, audiences root for the North or the South. I saw it twice, because you gotta see both sides.
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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 10/07/2026
Partial video of Barton at D. James Kennedy's "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference, September 2000, introduced by Janet Folger. He's been running this propaganda operation for decades, and it was obvious that if he wasn't successfully opposed, he'd be taking down major institutions eventually.
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Sean Brennan @badgramar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Happy 250th Birthday, America
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“She had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died” Every single death like hers is preventable
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Cause of death revealed for ‘Lilo and Stitch’ voice actor Daveigh Chase
Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney's “Lilo & Stitch” and her villainous performance in the thriller “The Ring," has died. She was 35.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As you head out to Pride events, please remember: Queer people are more likely, for a variety of reasons, to be disabled than cishet people. Make space for and give mics to disabled queer people. Queer people are more likely to wind up with long COVID. No, it’s not seasonal. Mask up.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Welcome to the Fascist States of America, where the EiC of a leading journal is forcibly removed by police for passing out his own editorial at the annual meeting of the field’s association…because it’s “too political” (read: it calls on scientists to speak out & stand up). We are here. This is it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
After Amazon gave $1M to Trump's inauguration, Trump installed Amazon's former lawyer to head the NLRB. Now the agency has ended a major case investigating Amazon's mistreatment of its contract drivers with a slap-on-the-wrist settlement. This is what a quid pro quo looks like.
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What Trump Delivered for Amazon
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: DOJ announces that it and the Ohio AG’s Office reached a settlement with the Cleveland Clinic relating to the provision of gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. Note: A DOJ press release should be read as their spin and viewed with skepticism.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation follows Texas Children's Hospital in reaching agreement with the Department of Justice to provide detransition care and not perform sex-rejecting procedures on minors
WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Justice announced another resolution arising from its ongoing national investigation into violations of federal law in connection with sex-rejecting procedures on minors often
euphemistically referred to as "gender-affirming care"). The Cleveland Clinic Foundation ("Cleveland Clinic") has entered into agreements with the Department and the Ohio Attorney General that include
a decades-long
commitment to not perform or offer sex-rejecting procedures-which includes the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones-for minors. Cleveland Clinic has also agreed to pay a monetary penalty and, in a landmark commitment, dedicate additional millions to help provide essential medical care for individuals living with the harmful consequences of such misguided medical interventions performed on them as children and adolescents (i.e., "detransitioners").
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
Senate Republicans just voted to send ICE $72 BILLION without any reforms. Now ICE is hiding data on the condition of their detention facilities, their treatment of detainees, and the deaths that have resulted. Republicans chose to bankroll this cruelty and lack of transparency.
cnn.com
ICE to stop reporting deaths of recently released detainees amid scrutiny | CNN
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its policy of reporting deaths of recently released detainees, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/06/2026
Breaking News! Code Yikes! May 2026 Mauna Loa CO2 data was just posted by NOAA, and a new record high was set for CO2, now at 432.34 ppm. Also, there was a new record for the 36-month annualized rate of growth for CO2, now at 8.28 ppm per 36 months. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Good job editors for being clear this is happening under Censorship Jay.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is the editorial that the physicians were sharing at the American Diabetes Association conference To appease the MAGA/MAHA Administration, the ADA called the cops to get the physicians removed These physicians are heroic If you can’t speak out & condemn authoritarianism NOW, then when?
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Project page, with links to interactive dashboard, code, acknowledgements and more info here: github.com/Mike-Honey/E... 🧵 ends
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GitHub - Mike-Honey/Ebola-2026: Analysis of data on the 2026 outbreak of Ebola
Analysis of data on the 2026 outbreak of Ebola. Contribute to Mike-Honey/Ebola-2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ryan D. Edwards @ryandedwards.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“I’ve thought a lot about how the officers are supposed to be there to uphold the law and protect us and protect property — and this is the exact opposite of that”
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Beeeee (Comms closed!) @slugelf-lizard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Just a reminder that the lesbians stepped up first for homosexual men during the AIDs crisis in the 80s and gave their blood to those gay men with AIDs when no one else would. They were the San Diego Blood Sisters So yall better be protecting your fellow lesbians and queer women this month 🫵🫵🫵
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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
With my friends at the NYC AIDS MEMORIAL. 45 YEARS OF AIDS 45 MILLION DEAD THE AIDS CRISIS IS NOT OVER.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Amazing day at the American Political History Conference today. Special thanks to @katejewell.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social Bruce Schulman and everyone who came out for this roundtable on our first books.
Covers for my book White Flight, Matt Lassiter's Silent Majority and Joe crespino's In Search of Another Country
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
nytimes.com
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
ADA members are being threatened with arrest for speaking out against the destruction of biomedical research in America while the ADA invited the NIH Director overseeing that destruction to give a keynote talk. The ADA is not serving the members and patients it claims to represent.
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 26/05/2026
NPR's Jan 6th archive, since so many would rather this go down the memory hole. We personally tangled with some of these fucks as "operation rescue" and related orgs long before Jan 6th. They were always on this trajectory, and remain so after the pardons and erasure. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archiv...
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Jan. 6 Archive: The Capitol Charges
NPR tracked 1,575 criminal cases stemming from the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The database also provides publicly accessible — and searchable — information, including, in hundreds of cases, video evidenc...
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 24/05/2026
We do, and love them.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org
A screenshot that reads, "The AI Resist List" with the subtitle, "Actions against the empire of AI".A screenshot of the Luddite Lab homepage. The homepage has the tabs: Case Studies; Primers; Resource Library; Contact Us; About. The webpage also has the text, "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 20/05/2026
Relating to the google enshitification post below back when I did the bulk of my blogging 2007-2013 I ran it as an #ad-freeblog with the owl logo as a small note of refusing commercialization The page it once linked, explaining. is now naturally advertising I still hold the values, the net doesn't
A small sleepy owl proclaims in a text ballon "Ad-Free Blog" in a cartoonish style.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 20/05/2026
My first living on my own ongoing paycheck job was as a hotel maid. Some of the hardest working, most invisible, and incredible women I ever met worked alongside me one particularly long hot summer. Give them every damn penny, they earn it every day.
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Mike Doughney 🇺🇸 @mike.doughney.net · 18/05/2026
Florida anti-abortion fanatic Jay Rogers (as we exited his St Petersburg event with Rushdoony) was quite explicit that @sabina.kneisly.org and I should be stoned, "with mercy." Every once in a while it comes out explicitly.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Maybe because they read -
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Everyone should read this.... AI and key words were used to cancel NIH and NSF grants...essentially on the whims of some DOGE folks on a power trip. The damage done to our once globally leading science enterprise is widespread...we need to speak out on this for it to get better. 🧪🌎
nature.com
NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
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Them @them.us · 15/05/2026
Slain Trans UW Student Identified as Juniper Blessing: “The Most Amazing Human Being”
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Slain Trans UW Student Identified as Juniper Blessing: “The Most Amazing Human Being”
The family of the 19-year-old atmospheric and earth sciences major released a statement on Thursday.
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
The thing they don’t tell you about Cupid’s arrow is how fucking big the exit wound is.
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 13/05/2026
These are people who cannot comprehend something as simple as battery storage. They obsess over 'Sun no shiny!' My panels here are from Canada. We'd have more domestic production were it not for blithering idiots like this. We could have had a domestic industry build on and building renewables.
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 09/05/2026
Find your people. Seriously, find one another now.
thepeoplescommunity.substack.com
Do You Have Your People Yet?
You have five months. Here's what to do.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” Protestors & Democratic legislators leave the scene of the crime arm in arm, after Tennessee Republicans broke the law to strip Memphis of representation with a racist 9-0 map, drowning out the majority Black city with white power. @GovBillLee
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE detention staff used force at least 780 times in one year, including pepper spray, tasers, and physical force, as detention centers filled beyond capacity. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
washingtonpost.com
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers
The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/05/2026
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...
wired.com
A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Did Hannity describe his own participation in a criminal conspiracy?
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 04/05/2026
The future we get? Starts feeling a bit like Cuba trying to keep the cars running... .
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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · 04/05/2026
See the full thread
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/05/2026
There’s something deeply unseemly & fundamentally unfair re: dynamic pricing. It violates the basic social contract: that people should know the price of what they’re buying, and that the rules shouldn’t change simply because demand spikes or an algorithm decides they can be squeezed for more.
theguardian.com
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Critics say Maryland’s new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts
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