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LA Jen
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TV Line Producer. Interlochen grad, Chicago raised ex-NY theater Stage Manager (Bway and The Met Opera), BU, Kiawah, Poughkeepsie. Accidental Golden Retriever puppy parent. I’d rather be in Florence. Covid Conscious. Freelancer.
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IT'S HAPPENING: House Democrats are introducing articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr for slashing research funding and spreading medical misinformation.
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr.

We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV
September 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"The 11th COVID wave is sweeping the US, driven by new highly transmissible variants. SARS-CoV-2 shows no sign of becoming endemic, as falsely promised."

"The average American has now been infected 3.85 times, meaning more than 1 billion COVID-19 infections have occurred since the pandemic began."
New COVID-19 variants surge as Kennedy escalates war on science
The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.
www.wsws.org
July 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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US Weekly COVID update: June 9, 2025

🔸1 in 189 People Currently Infected
🔸253,000 New Daily Infections
🔸1,771,000 New Weekly Infections
🔸89,000 to 354,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸600 to 1,100 Weekly Excess Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/
June 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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BREAKING—RFK Jr has abruptly fired CDC’s entire expert panel of vaccine scientists, claiming the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines. This is a dark day for science and public health. Disinformation now has an iron grip on Trump CDC/HHS.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
www.statnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sperm racing is a scam? would've never guessed
May 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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"You said you want to prioritize long COVID, you said you want to help with chronic disease and ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ and that’s not what we’re seeing now"

-Dr. Al-Aly to RFK

www.scientificamerican.com/article/hhss...
HHS’s Long COVID Office Is Closing. What Will This Mean for Future Research and Treatments?
The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millio...
www.scientificamerican.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It’s scary that the Hunger Games books are actually becoming more relevant now.

This was brilliant. I am so unbelievably sad.
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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WOW! I haven't enjoyed a Hunger Games book this much since the original! I've long said it should've have stopped at Book 1. I'd amend that now. If you loved THG read #SunriseOnTheReaping. If you remove the epilogue from Sunrise they become a perfect duology. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Nate Balcom's review of Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
5/5: WOW! I haven't enjoyed a Hunger Games book this much since the original The Hunger Games! Haymitch Abernathy's story in this book 100% does his character justice. I've long said that the series s...
www.goodreads.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I just checked in at the Atlanta airport and the kiosk wanted me to show a "passport or permanent residence card."

The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The good news? UK comic maker Becky Burke is home after being detained by ICE. The bad news, the new regime’s stricter reading of the previously ignored rules on work will catch others out coming to the US for comic events - comicon.com/2025/03/18/f...
March 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Just spent 1.25 hours caramelizing onions because that is, and I really must insist on this, how long they take slate.com/human-intere...
Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions?
Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...
slate.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“Every time you get infected [with COVID], it does harm to the body in some way,” says Avindra Nath, a neurologist at the National Institutes of Health who has led research on long COVID and other post-viral conditions.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How Risky Are Repeat COVID Infections? What We Know So Far
Four years into the pandemic, many people have had COVID more than once—but the health consequences of repeat infections are not yet clear
www.scientificamerican.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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First case of measles in an LA resident -- who recently spent time at LAX, a nail salon in North Hollywood and a grocery store in El Monte:
March 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us.
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
healthydebate.ca
March 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I'm absolutely aghast to see this sinister piece in the Guardian—the author says diagnoses of Long Covid, autism and ADHD are "robbing people of a recovery identity"
March 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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We don't want to know what happens when a disease like measles spreads through a global population in the wake of a virus that dysregulates their immune system, but we're going to find out and it won't be pretty.

Wear a mask.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/dont-assum...
Don't Assume You're Safe from Measles, Even if You're Vaccinated
A look at the science.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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How do you even cope without a big puppet golden retriever dragon firmly seared into your brain??
a person is riding on the back of a white dragon
Alt: a person is riding on the back of a white dragon (Bastian and Falcor from The Neverending Story)
media.tenor.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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#longcovid

This is an excellent overview but take note: treatment?

Nothing.
Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...
www.thelancet.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social I have seen this happening since 2020. It’s made so many antivax. The far right are calling for a WHO exit and saying climate change isn’t happening. It’s all very concerning. www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/covid-1...
COVID-19 Masking: Hundreds of Thousands of Russian Social Media Bots Have Tricked the Public
Kevin Kavanagh, MD, discusses how Russian bots have tried to convince the United States public that masking is unnecessary. What do the latest studies say?
www.infectioncontroltoday.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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This clip from The Good Place sums up the current state of the Democratic Party quite well and we’re all Michael.
February 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.

Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.
February 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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It’s no mystery. COVID is airborne, very contagious, and dozens of entertainers & performers were gathered closely together & not wearing masks.

Can’t believe we’re still doing this five years in.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/m...
Steve Martin Says Martin Short Got COVID After ‘SNL50’ Special: “Curse Is Real”
"Maya [Rudolph] had Covid. Marty has Covid. I wonder why?," the comedian said while sharing a photo of Short and Rudolph embracing and sharing a kiss.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM