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LA Jen
@justjenla.bsky.social
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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.
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚨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
Poster-style graphic with bold text reading “TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: THE QUACK RFK Jr. HAS TO GO!” A large photo of RFK Jr. is overlaid with a yellow biohazard sign, while a man’s shoe is about to kick him out. At the bottom, logos and text say “Stand Up For Science” and “Fuel the fight: standupforscience.net.”
September 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
"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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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
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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drericding.bsky.social
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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redconversation.bsky.social
sperm racing is a scam? would've never guessed
May 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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chantzy.bsky.social
"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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jameshultgren.bsky.social
It’s scary that the Hunger Games books are actually becoming more relevant now.

This was brilliant. I am so unbelievably sad.
The paperback of Suzanne Collins’ “Sunrise on the Reaping”, a Hunger Games novel, sitting on a charcoal bedspread.
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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mrbalcom.bsky.social
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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maryrobinettekowal.com
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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casmudde.bsky.social
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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richardbruton.bsky.social
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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annamerlan.bsky.social
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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moorejh.bsky.social
Solving the puzzle of Long Covid www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #covid #longcovid #idchat
Solving the puzzle of Long Covid
Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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corruptario.bsky.social
“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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keribla.bsky.social
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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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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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maosbot.bsky.social
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"
The image shows a newspaper or magazine article headline and subheading titled "DIAGNOSIS OVERLOAD" in large, bold black text. The subheading reads: "The number of people with chronic conditions is rocketing. Are we less healthy than we used to be? Or are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? Neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan investigates" That could have been where Garner's story ended. By September 2020, he had improved but he was no longer recovering further. So he started searching beyond the non-recovery stories, for those with more positive outcomes. That was how he found Recovery Norway, a group of people who once had chronic fatigue syndrome but had beaten it. The group gave him a recovery mentor as well as another perspective and, crucially, a recovery identity. He realised that while pacing had helped him at the start, he had then become obsessed with it. As he described in his blog, he had started to unconsciously monitor signals from his body until he became paralysed with fear. He believed long Covid was a metabolic disease that had damaged his mitochondria, but the Norway group made him think differently. He didn't doubt the virus had triggered the fatigue but felt he had later become caught in a vicious cycle of illness driven by his fear. Viruses cause fatigue in order to make people rest, which promotes recovery. But, in Garner's case, his recovery had gone awry because he inadvertently conditioned his body to stay tired. Garner realised he had to retrain his brain to react differently to the fatigue if he was to get better. "I suddenly believed I would recover completely," he writes. "I stopped my constant monitoring of symptoms. I avoided reading stories about illness and discussing symptoms, research or treatments by dropping off the Facebook groups with other patients. I spent time seeking joy, happiness... and overcame my fear of exercise." By the end of 2020 he had made a full recovery. Perhaps what they actually needed from a diagnosis was permission to do less in a world that values only very particular types of success. For some, medical diagnosis is a means to take the pressure off, so they no longer feel forced to continue chasing after an overly idealistic social and work life. One woman's story stood out. She's an artist who has had some significant successes, but not the success she wanted. She would prefer to be an academic, she told me, but it wasn't her talent. As a teenager, she imagined her adult self quoting poetry off the cuff. The pain of not turning out to be that adult was terrible for her. It stopped her enjoying the success she had. Eventually, a diagnosis of ADHD helped her accept that she could not be equally talented in every way she wanted. The diagnosis gave her some comfort but also caused stagnation in her life. It reinforced her belief in a lesser version of herself. Rather than being defined by a successful art career that others would envy, she became a woman whose life revolved around ADHD and was defined by the things she could not do because she was neurodevelopmentally different. I worry that a child told they are different in this way will underestimate themselves and limit their future. Excessive medical diagnosis risks robbing people of a recovery identity and promoting intolerance by othering; by dividing the world into neurodivergents and neurotypicals. It must be very hard to set out or continue on life's big journey if your aspirations have been narrowed by a diagnosis that is uncertain or offers very little. Let's find a way to be more tolerant of difference and imperfections that still allow aneral
March 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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jessicawildfire.bsky.social
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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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
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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anothernyer.bsky.social
#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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elhopkins.bsky.social
@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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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks?
#healthpolicy 🧪

www.bmj.com/content/388/...
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings
The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...
www.bmj.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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nuphoto.com
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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covid19disease.bsky.social
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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gayfabfourfan.bsky.social
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