Sabrina Hersi Issa
@beingbrina.bsky.social
human rights + tech + investments
Athlete, learner, leader and joyful warrior. // I believe in a world where we all get to thrive. // I love libraries, coffee and dance breaks.
https://sabrina.ghost.io/
Athlete, learner, leader and joyful warrior. // I believe in a world where we all get to thrive. // I love libraries, coffee and dance breaks.
https://sabrina.ghost.io/
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!) 🥳
Thank you @beingbrina.bsky.social for this sweet gift. ❤️🔥
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
October 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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!) 🥳
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Thank you @beingbrina.bsky.social for this sweet gift. ❤️🔥
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Thank you @beingbrina.bsky.social for this sweet gift. ❤️🔥
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
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To borrow one of @beingbrina.bsky.social 's favorite questions to ask:
How are you sourcing hope right now?
How are you sourcing hope right now?
July 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
To borrow one of @beingbrina.bsky.social 's favorite questions to ask:
How are you sourcing hope right now?
How are you sourcing hope right now?
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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.”
“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.”
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.
www.nbcnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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.”
“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.”
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This is the funniest thing I've read in months:
July 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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.
June 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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.
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Woke never crashed planes or the economy out of spite and incompetence, just saying
April 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Woke never crashed planes or the economy out of spite and incompetence, just saying
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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."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
"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."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
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.
popular.info
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
"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."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
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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...
TRUST IS EARNED, NOT SOMETHING TO BE GAMED OUT.
"Trust is consistency built over time" sabrina.ghost.io/r/5a06e37a?m...
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 ...
sabrina.ghost.io
March 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
TRUST IS EARNED, NOT SOMETHING TO BE GAMED OUT.
"Trust is consistency built over time" sabrina.ghost.io/r/5a06e37a?m...
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Creative protests & resistance to fascism are happening everywhere. Keep standing up, even in the reddest states. It matters that others see your courage.
Protestors reciting Pledge of Allegiance over and over until they shut down a House subcommittee about to consider bill requiring immigration checks by Tennessee banks on international wire transfers. Video: John Partipilo.
March 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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.
March 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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.
Where I tell Democrats and progressives to stand on business. sabrina.ghost.io/stolen-scaff...
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...
sabrina.ghost.io
February 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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.
February 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Thank you for those kind words! 🥹
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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.
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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.
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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.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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.
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Eric Adams line prosecutor Hagan Scotten, resigning rather than filing "dismissal-with-leverage" motion:
"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
Via @NYTimes.com https://buff.ly/4hVJGLX
"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
Via @NYTimes.com https://buff.ly/4hVJGLX
February 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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May you have the group text you deserve and need to buoy you through these times.
February 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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…
February 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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…
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.
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
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...
sabrina.ghost.io
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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.
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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
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...
sabrina.ghost.io
February 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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
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"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.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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.
fortune.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"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.
Lina Khan really is That Girl.
When are we going to get pissed off enough that our entire social safety net is stitched together with Google docs and GoFundMe links?!
Survival should not be dependent upon algorithmic generosity.
Survival should not be dependent upon algorithmic generosity.
January 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When are we going to get pissed off enough that our entire social safety net is stitched together with Google docs and GoFundMe links?!
Survival should not be dependent upon algorithmic generosity.
Survival should not be dependent upon algorithmic generosity.
I had to evacuate from where I evacuated and am safely out of state. My nervous system rejoices.
January 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I had to evacuate from where I evacuated and am safely out of state. My nervous system rejoices.
Welcome… everyone?!
YAY!
YAY!
November 13, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Welcome… everyone?!
YAY!
YAY!