Alan Klein
@akmedia.bsky.social
Comms strategist, activist, tech geek, gay, Jewish native New Yorker in Jackson Heights.
• Early member of ACT UP/NY
• Cofounder of Queer Nation NY 🏳️🌈
@queernationny.org
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• Early member of ACT UP/NY
• Cofounder of Queer Nation NY 🏳️🌈
@queernationny.org
🌎 alanklein.me
📷 @akmediapix.bsky.social
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Alan Klein
@akmedia.bsky.social
· Jan 11
I created a List here on Bluesky of members and former members of ACT UP and Queer Nation from chapters across the nation and around the world. I’m sure I’ve missed folks, so please drop me a note if you’d like to be added to the list or removed from it. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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Dear God, Jay Bhattacharya is just hopeless. He can't simply say getting polio is bad and is far worse than any side effects from the vaccine. He's is so far gone. It's tragic really. Too bad for all of us that he runs the National Institutes of Health.
We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dear God, Jay Bhattacharya is just hopeless. He can't simply say getting polio is bad and is far worse than any side effects from the vaccine. He's is so far gone. It's tragic really. Too bad for all of us that he runs the National Institutes of Health.
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
This is, and should be, a terrifying development
By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is, and should be, a terrifying development
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News and bystander videos have documented immigration officers firing pepper balls at people's heads and encasing entire neighborhoods in tear gas.
"They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.
"They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
News and bystander videos have documented immigration officers firing pepper balls at people's heads and encasing entire neighborhoods in tear gas.
"They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.
"They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.
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Hello, @warren.senate.gov, is it your intention to KICK our FAMILIES while they’re down?
As a LONGTIME QUEER supporter of your efforts, and board chair at GLSEN, I think the #LGBTQ community, especially our parents and young people, DESERVE an EXPLANATION for this BETRAYAL!
As a LONGTIME QUEER supporter of your efforts, and board chair at GLSEN, I think the #LGBTQ community, especially our parents and young people, DESERVE an EXPLANATION for this BETRAYAL!
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hello, @warren.senate.gov, is it your intention to KICK our FAMILIES while they’re down?
As a LONGTIME QUEER supporter of your efforts, and board chair at GLSEN, I think the #LGBTQ community, especially our parents and young people, DESERVE an EXPLANATION for this BETRAYAL!
As a LONGTIME QUEER supporter of your efforts, and board chair at GLSEN, I think the #LGBTQ community, especially our parents and young people, DESERVE an EXPLANATION for this BETRAYAL!
Watch and repost
A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Watch and repost
This Supreme Court seems hellbent on giving Trump dictatorial powers.
These are dark times.
These are dark times.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This Supreme Court seems hellbent on giving Trump dictatorial powers.
These are dark times.
These are dark times.
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Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
Republicans are degenerate murderers. Why is that celebrated?
December 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Republicans are degenerate murderers. Why is that celebrated?
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
ICE are a gang of Proud Boy punks that need to be stopped!
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
ICE are a gang of Proud Boy punks that need to be stopped!
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Every day is a new opportunity for RFK Jr to make more kids susceptible to more preventable diseases, and every day is a new opportunity for us to stop this culty fucking creep from killing more of our kids
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
The Church of Disease Chronicity and Proliferation
Preventable disease is RFK, Jr's religion so I'm calling for a crusade
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Every day is a new opportunity for RFK Jr to make more kids susceptible to more preventable diseases, and every day is a new opportunity for us to stop this culty fucking creep from killing more of our kids
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
I really don't have words to express just how egregious this is
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I really don't have words to express just how egregious this is
I'm all thumbs when it comes to using my iPhone's keyboard. It may be a generational thing, but whatever the reason, I'm a dictation kind of guy. I've tried many AI apps to make dictation easier and one stands out for both accuracy and privacy: VoiceInk.
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Check them out here: tryvoiceink.com
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November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm all thumbs when it comes to using my iPhone's keyboard. It may be a generational thing, but whatever the reason, I'm a dictation kind of guy. I've tried many AI apps to make dictation easier and one stands out for both accuracy and privacy: VoiceInk.
Check them out here: tryvoiceink.com
Check them out here: tryvoiceink.com
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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"Just like family separation, I think we're starting to see people take to the street in really vocal opposition in a way President Trump has shown before that he will ultimately back down" -- interesting report from Jacob Soboroff on how Charlotte is organizing against ICE
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Just like family separation, I think we're starting to see people take to the street in really vocal opposition in a way President Trump has shown before that he will ultimately back down" -- interesting report from Jacob Soboroff on how Charlotte is organizing against ICE
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This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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🚨BREAKING: Speaking at a White House breakfast with Senate Republicans, Trump responded by calling on lawmakers to smooth a path for voter suppression measures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
After Voters Chastise Trump, He Demands End to Filibuster to Pass Suppression Laws
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨BREAKING: Speaking at a White House breakfast with Senate Republicans, Trump responded by calling on lawmakers to smooth a path for voter suppression measures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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rightwing guy inherits insurance empire from his dad.
struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".
builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.
profits!
gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".
builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.
profits!
gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
rightwing guy inherits insurance empire from his dad.
struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".
builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.
profits!
gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".
builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.
profits!
gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.
The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.