@lauriegarrett.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of several books, and contributor to multiple others. Scientific consultant for the film, "Contagion," directed by Stephen Soderbergh.
(See www.lauriegarrett.com for further professional details.)
(See www.lauriegarrett.com for further professional details.)
Autumn in New York....
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Autumn in New York....
The most important issues facing New York City were never addressed in the campaign. What will Mayor Mamdani do? We have no idea....
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November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The most important issues facing New York City were never addressed in the campaign. What will Mayor Mamdani do? We have no idea....
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Cuts to NOAA are increasing uncertainty in forecasting for climate change and weather. Greatest uncertainties situation in recent history.
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Cuts to NOAA are increasing uncertainty in forecasting for climate change and weather. Greatest uncertainties situation in recent history.
We are already losing data thanks to Trump shutdowns of NOAA funding...so mysteries abound regarding weather, heat, and climate change
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We are already losing data thanks to Trump shutdowns of NOAA funding...so mysteries abound regarding weather, heat, and climate change
My latest -- why yesterday's fantastic Nobel Prize announcement will be ignored, or squelched, by the Kennedy/Trump biomedical regime.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My latest -- why yesterday's fantastic Nobel Prize announcement will be ignored, or squelched, by the Kennedy/Trump biomedical regime.
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It's Fat Bear Week -- check out these behemoths and cast your votes.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's Fat Bear Week -- check out these behemoths and cast your votes.
explore.org/fat-bear-week
explore.org/fat-bear-week
It is getting much harder to comprehend President Trump's long diatribes posted late at night on TruthSocial. I think, but concede that it's hard to be sure, that this posting is meant to say that I, Donald Trump, can do what I want to people because I am POTUS-the-Powerful.
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It is getting much harder to comprehend President Trump's long diatribes posted late at night on TruthSocial. I think, but concede that it's hard to be sure, that this posting is meant to say that I, Donald Trump, can do what I want to people because I am POTUS-the-Powerful.
In case you haven't noticed, GOOGLE has eliminated its primary search portal for climate and environmental news.
The entire tech world is buckling to Trump, largely because they need more energy to power their AI and cybercurrency data farms.
The entire tech world is buckling to Trump, largely because they need more energy to power their AI and cybercurrency data farms.
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In case you haven't noticed, GOOGLE has eliminated its primary search portal for climate and environmental news.
The entire tech world is buckling to Trump, largely because they need more energy to power their AI and cybercurrency data farms.
The entire tech world is buckling to Trump, largely because they need more energy to power their AI and cybercurrency data farms.
When are right wing opportunists going to get it through their thick skulls that going to work for Donald Trump is a job from Hell?
He demands absolute loyalty.
He gives back nothing in return.
And SNAP! he can turn around and destroy you.
He demands absolute loyalty.
He gives back nothing in return.
And SNAP! he can turn around and destroy you.
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When are right wing opportunists going to get it through their thick skulls that going to work for Donald Trump is a job from Hell?
He demands absolute loyalty.
He gives back nothing in return.
And SNAP! he can turn around and destroy you.
He demands absolute loyalty.
He gives back nothing in return.
And SNAP! he can turn around and destroy you.
"Or whatever it may be. Whether it’s 89 — it doesn’t matter, it’s a tremendous number.”
Got it?
Interpretation? Sure I'm for free speech, except for 97% of broadcasters because they are against me.
Got it?
Interpretation? Sure I'm for free speech, except for 97% of broadcasters because they are against me.
September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Or whatever it may be. Whether it’s 89 — it doesn’t matter, it’s a tremendous number.”
Got it?
Interpretation? Sure I'm for free speech, except for 97% of broadcasters because they are against me.
Got it?
Interpretation? Sure I'm for free speech, except for 97% of broadcasters because they are against me.
"United States government, and you can’t have that and say, uh, and somebody that just won an election. And I had to go through the story of the election. I think it’s a miracle that I can win. When 97% of the stories on the networks are bad."
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September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"United States government, and you can’t have that and say, uh, and somebody that just won an election. And I had to go through the story of the election. I think it’s a miracle that I can win. When 97% of the stories on the networks are bad."
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"against me in the sense of the media. The newscasts are against me. The stories are ninety- they said 97% bad. So they’ve given 97 — they’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally. You can't take -- you can't have a free airwaves from the -
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September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"against me in the sense of the media. The newscasts are against me. The stories are ninety- they said 97% bad. So they’ve given 97 — they’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally. You can't take -- you can't have a free airwaves from the -
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"I guess it’s 2,600, 525, that’s called land-side. A landslide times two. When you have that level of popularity, of voter support, as I did in the last election…And yet 97 and 94% — different numbers, you see different numbers, different, uh, stats. But 97% , 94, 95, 96% of the people are --"
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September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"I guess it’s 2,600, 525, that’s called land-side. A landslide times two. When you have that level of popularity, of voter support, as I did in the last election…And yet 97 and 94% — different numbers, you see different numbers, different, uh, stats. But 97% , 94, 95, 96% of the people are --"
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At 4:30pm eastern yesterday Trump held a quick press conference in the Oval. He was asked about free speech. I have tried to transcribe verbatim his response:
“I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, like, where I won an election in counties -"
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“I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, like, where I won an election in counties -"
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September 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
At 4:30pm eastern yesterday Trump held a quick press conference in the Oval. He was asked about free speech. I have tried to transcribe verbatim his response:
“I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, like, where I won an election in counties -"
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“I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, like, where I won an election in counties -"
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Google appears to have eliminated its go-to site for quick-access environmental and climate change news.
Is this a glitch, or censorship?
Is this a glitch, or censorship?
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Google appears to have eliminated its go-to site for quick-access environmental and climate change news.
Is this a glitch, or censorship?
Is this a glitch, or censorship?
STRANGE DEFENDERS AND OFFENDERS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT open.substack.com/pub/lauriega...
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
STRANGE DEFENDERS AND OFFENDERS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT open.substack.com/pub/lauriega...
7 NE States plus NYC have formed a regional public health alliance, aimed at countering whatever efforts RFK Jr and the Trump Administration take to block access to health, drugs, vaccines and essential services.
September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
7 NE States plus NYC have formed a regional public health alliance, aimed at countering whatever efforts RFK Jr and the Trump Administration take to block access to health, drugs, vaccines and essential services.
Insisting the Left is responsible for the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Trump Admin is pushing firings & suspensions of public & private employees who express any "support" for the murders. And insisting that terrorism is the work of left-wingers in America.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Insisting the Left is responsible for the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Trump Admin is pushing firings & suspensions of public & private employees who express any "support" for the murders. And insisting that terrorism is the work of left-wingers in America.
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"About half of parents (52 percent) did not vaccinate their children for flu in the past year"
"Roughly 13 percent of eligible children received last year’s coronavirus vaccine"
"Roughly 13 percent of eligible children received last year’s coronavirus vaccine"
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"About half of parents (52 percent) did not vaccinate their children for flu in the past year"
"Roughly 13 percent of eligible children received last year’s coronavirus vaccine"
"Roughly 13 percent of eligible children received last year’s coronavirus vaccine"
"Democrats & Asian parents are least likely to skip or delay any vaccine for their children besides coronavirus or flu, with 8% and 5% doing so, respectively.
Parents who home-school a child (46%) & White parents who identify as very religious (36%) are most likely to skip or delay vaccines."
Parents who home-school a child (46%) & White parents who identify as very religious (36%) are most likely to skip or delay vaccines."
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"Democrats & Asian parents are least likely to skip or delay any vaccine for their children besides coronavirus or flu, with 8% and 5% doing so, respectively.
Parents who home-school a child (46%) & White parents who identify as very religious (36%) are most likely to skip or delay vaccines."
Parents who home-school a child (46%) & White parents who identify as very religious (36%) are most likely to skip or delay vaccines."
Court ruling: Trump is in violation of Posse Comitatus in Los Angeles.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Court ruling: Trump is in violation of Posse Comitatus in Los Angeles.
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By blocking and de-funding alternative energy R&D and tax incentives for use of solar, wind, nuclear and other renewables, Trump is handing the future on a gold platter to China.
Xi says, "非常感謝". [Thank you very much.]
(And what do today's children say in the USA?)
Xi says, "非常感謝". [Thank you very much.]
(And what do today's children say in the USA?)
September 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
By blocking and de-funding alternative energy R&D and tax incentives for use of solar, wind, nuclear and other renewables, Trump is handing the future on a gold platter to China.
Xi says, "非常感謝". [Thank you very much.]
(And what do today's children say in the USA?)
Xi says, "非常感謝". [Thank you very much.]
(And what do today's children say in the USA?)
Seems about right to me.
August 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Seems about right to me.
21/In the Americas, "years of foreign aid have failed to bring peace, prosperity, and stability to the hemisphere. Poverty, joblessness, and social unrest have led to leftist electoral victories from Mexico to Chile. These regimes are hostile to American interests and private enterprise..."
August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
21/In the Americas, "years of foreign aid have failed to bring peace, prosperity, and stability to the hemisphere. Poverty, joblessness, and social unrest have led to leftist electoral victories from Mexico to Chile. These regimes are hostile to American interests and private enterprise..."
20/In Africa, "the agency’s efforts to reduce poverty and hunger have failed as it spends ever-higher amounts of aid partnering with a costly and ineffective aid industrial complex that has little interest in 'working itself out of a job'.”
August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
20/In Africa, "the agency’s efforts to reduce poverty and hunger have failed as it spends ever-higher amounts of aid partnering with a costly and ineffective aid industrial complex that has little interest in 'working itself out of a job'.”