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Ashley Pratt
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Rabbinical student. MA in International Relations from King's College London. Boston.
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Can someone explain to me which Jewish holidays aren’t “family-friendly”?
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Astounding, appalling statistic:
Screenshot reading, “Health care workers make up 10 percent of the nation’s work force, but they experience nearly half of the nonfatal injuries incurred, according to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Amazing work on her part but embarrassing for the CDC 😬
A screenshot reading, “The sound of rapid gunfire started around 4:50 p.m. on Friday. One scientist who evaluates Covid vaccines had just stepped out of her building to walk to her car. As she headed to pick up her infant daughter from day care, shots rang out over her right shoulder, she said. She turned around, ran back inside and called security to confirm what was happening. “C.D.C. SHELTER IN PLACE. GUNMAN AT EMORY POINT,” she wrote to friends and colleagues in a group chat at 4:57 p.m. (The agency did not send out its alert to employees until 5:13 p.m.) The employee and three others barricaded themselves in an office, moving two loaded bookshelves against the door. She put a sticky note over the motion sensor for the light switch and lay flat on the floor for hours, before a SWAT team arrived to clear the floor.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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why does this read like an AI summary? (From the NYT article about the CDC shooting)
A screenshot reading, “In interviews, the employees conveyed sadness about the police officer who had died trying to keep them safe, and a feeling of betrayal and devastation at being demonized while working to improve Americans’ health.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM