Ellen Shanna Knoppow
@ellenshanna.bsky.social
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Queer journalist and activist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/her/hers Proud Michigander No random DMs
Happy Thursday to all who celebrate! 💃
about 2 months ago
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Happy Friday, MiGOP!
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‘Traditional family values’ Michigan lawmaker appears in adult hookup sites - Detroit Metro Times
The name, email address, and home address of Republican state Rep. Bryan Posthumus of Kent County, along with a credit card bearing his name, appear in data from Ashley Madison, a website for people s...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/politics-elections/traditional-family-values-michigan-lawmaker-appears-in-adult-hookup-sites/
3 months ago
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How I feel about the demolition of the East Wing is probably akin to the way the French feel about the loss of their cultural heritage from the Louvre. Who else is taking this very personally??
4 months ago
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Detroit says
#NoKings
4 months ago
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Someone wake up Marc, the winner is a Venezuelan woman. 👏👏👏
4 months ago
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The Rapture is just a distraction from the Epstein Files.
5 months ago
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September 16 to 23 is Bisexual Awareness Week. And I really need a reason to celebrate. 🎉
5 months ago
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Political violence is disgusting. It is also true that Charlie Kirk was disgusting.
5 months ago
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The cis gay white men who supported an LGB-only amendment to ELCRA are the same cis gay white men who prioritize saving equal marriage over the very existence of trans people.
6 months ago
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FUCK NO
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Opinion | Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opinion/family-politics-arguments-right-wing.html
7 months ago
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My Pride Month editorial for the Detroit Free Press: Because everyone deserves to experience joy in being who they are. (And fuck today’s
#SCOTUS
ruling.)
#trans
#transjoy
#LGBTQIA
#queer
#pride
#Michigan
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It can be a scary time to be trans, but there's joy in living with authenticity | Opinion
Trans Americans' rights and identity are under attack. These trans Michiganders want to share the joy that comes with gender affirmation.
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/06/18/michigan-motor-city-pride-trans-lgbtq-joy-detroit/84194487007/
8 months ago
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#NoKings
8 months ago
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“a furious and public row” 💥🥊🍿🥤
8 months ago
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Bridget Butts had her job taken away by Donald J. Trump. Here's why she has hope.
#trans
#lgbtq
#queer
#pride
#RuthEllisCenter
#Detroit
#Michigan
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/this...
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This Black trans woman lost her job because Trump ended LGBTQ+ grants. Here's why she has hope. - LGBTQ Nation
"I've been homeless before, like, real homeless. Not like, ‘Oh, I'm sleeping on somebody's couch.’ I mean, eating out the trash."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/this-black-trans-woman-lost-her-job-because-ended-lgbtq-grants-heres-why-she-has-hope/
9 months ago
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Happy Pride,
@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social
and Noa! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#HateWontWin
9 months ago
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Great teamwork, Rep.
@mikemcfall.bsky.social
and
@emmezanotti.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender
Woolford would not publicly disclose his medical history, but under his own proposed laws, children across Michigan might have to.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/mi-republicans-think-its-inappropriate
9 months ago
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In Warren, Michigan at the 100 Days protest. Photo credit:
@charlesgaba.com
. Follow Charles for the latest on healthcare policy.
10 months ago
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#Handsoff
#protest
in Ferndale, Michigan. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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10 months ago
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Yes, I'm a
#queer
#Michigander
, but for the past year I've been contributing to
#OurLivesMagazine
, Wisconsin's source for everything
#LGBTQ
. Check out Tony and Kevin's story on page 24 in the latest issue. Or read here how they keep
#ChippewaFalls
clean with their business, Ope! Its Soap.
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Cleaning Up in Chippewa Falls
Tony Liedl and Kevin Brylski are blending Wisconsin cultural expressions like “You betcha” with LGBTQ visibility via their Chippewa Valley soap business, Ope! It’s Soap.
https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/cleaning-up-in-chippewa-falls/
11 months ago
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A good turnout today for the protest at Hart Plaza in solidarity with our neighbors in Windsor. We the people dissent!!
11 months ago
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Federal judge strikes down trans military ban!
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“Soaked in Animus”: Federal Judges Strikes Down Trump’s Trans Military Ban
“The cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed—some risking their lives—to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/soaked-in-animus-federal-judges-strikes
11 months ago
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Members of Minnesota’s National Guard received an email Thursday explaining how to initiate voluntary separation from the army if they have a “current diagnosis, history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria.”
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Minnesota National Guard members receive email instructing those with gender dysphoria to voluntarily separate
The email to National Guard members lays out a timeline for service members who experience gender dysphoria to voluntarily separate from the military.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/13/minnesota-national-guard-receives-email-about-transgender-members
11 months ago
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Canada's "fentanyl czar" is going to be about as busy as the old Maytag repairman.
12 months ago
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AP reporters have been barred from presidential events for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.
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White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters over Gulf naming dispute
The White House says news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico are telling “lies."
https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7
about 1 year ago
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The Budget Lab at Yale University estimates that trump’s tariffs would cost the average American household $1,000 to $1,200 in annual purchasing power.
about 1 year ago
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“As a mom of a gay woman, I want my daughter to have full access to the same rights and freedoms as everyone else in our state. I will continue to fight for the LGBTQ+ community and make Michigan a safe space for all.” -Gov. Whitmer My latest for
@lgbtqnation.com
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/dona...
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Donald Trump is coming for our rights. Democratic governors need to join the fight. - LGBTQ Nation
Blue state governors can help blunt the impact of the next administration. Here's what they're working on and what more they could do.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald-trump-is-coming-for-our-rights-democratic-governors-need-to-join-the-fight/
about 1 year ago
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My cat is long dead but typewriters are forever. Here’s my 1940s Remington Remette portable. Isn’t she cute?
about 1 year ago
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Happy New Year to everyone who voted for Kamala Harris! Everyone else may fuck off.
about 1 year ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 1 year ago
Opinion | if Jesus were alive today, he would be a CEO. by Bret Stephens
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Thanks to President Biden, the holidays will not be merry and bright for many military families. It didn't have to be this way.
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President Biden Signs Defense Bill Blocking Health Care For Trans…
Thousands of Military Families Now Face Loss of Medically Necessary Care for Their Children
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/president-biden-signs-defense-bill-blocking-health-care-for-trans-military-children-first-anti-lgbtq-federal-law-enacted-since-defense-of-marriage-act
about 1 year ago
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God
about 1 year ago
I hate when kids learn Santa isn’t real because they’re one step away from figuring out I don’t exist either.
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Jane Norman
about 1 year ago
NEW President Biden is commuting the death sentences to life without parole for 37 of 40 people on federal death row. Excludes the Boston bomber, Charleston AME church shooter, Tree of Life synagogue shooter.
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This perv drops into my DMs, I ask him what he wants and he calls me a literal Nazi. Maybe this isn’t a friendly place after all.
about 1 year ago
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Eric Feigl-Ding
about 1 year ago
TERM LIMITS?—Can we ask how long this Congresswoman has been actually suffering from dementia? She has ranked last, as the LEAST effective GOP legislator, for 2 straight terms already.
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Eric Feigl-Ding
about 1 year ago
So that we have less of this.
bsky.app/profile/drer...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Tip: This is how to keep the Catholics and their many children away at your friend’s holiday open house.
#familyplanning
#abortionaccessfront
about 1 year ago
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Happy Winter Solstice, Bluesky! Tis the season for reason.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/chri...
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Christian conservatives rage at Winter Solstice celebrators: "THIS IS OUR SEASON, NOT YOURS" - LGBTQ Nation
It's intended to taunt a religious freedom organization.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/christian-conservatives-rage-at-winter-solstice-celebrators-this-is-our-season-not-yours/
about 1 year ago
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Happy Friday, Bluesky. Insurance will waive the copay for my tests. And that means Grandma can go to Vegas for Christmas this year.
about 1 year ago
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Predicting an uptick in google searches for “symptoms of polio.”
about 1 year ago
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Each side features two beveled glass windows. Purchased for $10 at a garage sale in Clawson, MI during Obama's first term.
about 1 year ago
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George Takei
about 1 year ago
When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
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My interview with Fred Karger.
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Why Fred Karger, the first gay presidential candidate, has a beef with LGBTQ+ organizations - LGBTQ Nation
Fred Karger ran as a Republican for president. Years later he voted for Pete Buttigieg. Here's what he thinks about the election.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/what-fred-karger-the-first-gay-presidential-candidate-has-a-beef-with-lgbtq-organizations/
about 1 year ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 year ago
To be fair, this is probably healthier than his usual diet of roadkill.
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George Takei
about 1 year ago
Well said.
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I like this place already. Maybe I’ll post some pictures of my typewriters.
over 1 year ago
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#thefuriousjournalist
over 1 year ago
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