Renee Despres, PhD, MPH
@knityarn
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Freelance journalist specializing in medicine, public health, and health policy. English prof when the whim hits. Literature and medicine always.
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Joined January 2010
RT @LongTimeHistory: She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag….
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RT @MelanieforNM: Lincoln County! You showed up in force. We had an amazing time in Ruidoso and Carrizozo!!! Thank you to everyone who came….
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RT @Kaos_Vs_Control: ICE Agents in Los Angeles violently kidnapping community activist and journalist, Tatiana Martinez. This sent her t….
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After listening to Trump whine about Fed rates I looked at his recent ethics filing and I see one of his big loans is due this year. 40 Wall Street is listed as "over $50,000,000" and could be way over it. With his bad credit and judgment liens, I'm betting he's got problems.
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RT @kristinforWI: I’m in the Cusco, Peru airport with measles warning signs are everywhere. Meanwhile, Wisconsin just confirmed 9 cases of….
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RT @PeoplesForumNYC: 🚨🇵🇸 HAPPENING NOW: Thousands have gathered in NYC to demand an end to the starvation in Gaza! . Join us now! 📍Bryant P….
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RT @CREWcrew: During President Trump’s first term, the Trump family pledged to abstain from any new deals overseas. That’s out the window….
newyorker.com
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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RT @MayorBowser: DC, we have resources for every individual experiencing homelessness. We all have a role to play in making sure that our….
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RT @Kasparov63: The luncheon was cancelled, but Putin and Russian propaganda got a free lunch. Unless Trump quickly reverses this humiliati….
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Hegseth the Hater.
The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers for the right to continue serving their country.
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RT @PlaguePoems: We are so desperate.to forget.that this pandemic.ever happened,.that we keep.forgetting.that this pandemic.is still happen….
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
When they tell you (and they will tell you) that the precautions you take are pointless thank them for their opinion but politely inform them that you are hesitant to take their advice on how to su…
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RT @US_Stormwatch: Erin is now a catastrophic Category 5 storm, WELL ahead of schedule, and has completely deviated away from the forecast….
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The #CDC is messing with COVID data quality. Yet another shameful chapter.
🚩🚩🚩.As a vigorous defender of #CDC data, their switch from using normalized to non-normalized COVlD wastewater surveillance data today harms data quality. "Normalizing" means accounting for basic confounders like rain levels. It is a choice to use worse data. 1/5🧵
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RT @anthon7yandrews: Sometimes as I’m searching thins I’ve saved I come across receipts I completely forgot about and never shared. Like th….
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RT @ChiaraEisner: A state department staffer seems to have left behind 8 pages of info on a hotel printer about the Trump-Putin summit. W….
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Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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RT @caslernoel: Trump is such a such a useful idiot for the oligarchs that the NYT had bombshell reporting today that Space X has never pai….
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RT @tomwatson: A Luncheon IN HONOR (!!!) of His Excellency, the Murderer Putin. What a God-damned disgrace.
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Uhoh.
From Tropical Storm to Category 5 in a little over 24 hours. Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest intensifying Atlantic hurricanes ever.
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RT @VoteAnnJohnson: Governor Abbott just said he’s got “bullets in his belt” that he’s ready to use against Texas Democrats. As a prosecut….
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