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Brenna Lemieux

@brennalemieux.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, runner, Chicagoan. Still masking. #amquerying a romcom-adjacent upmarket book. #amwriting a domestic thriller. She/her. Work at brennalemieux.com. 👋🏻

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026
new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
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Everlee Has Disappeared
Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day. One of the best things you can do to support people with Long Covid is wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95). Masks break chains of transmission. They prevent infection. The only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid!
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Air quality was bad and the race was crowded so I wore a mask for the 10K I ran this weekend. #stillmasking #weprotectus
Two women crossing the finish line of a race. One is wearing a green respirator and flashing two peace signs.
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Very excited for Chicago-based Beacon, which makes a far-UVC device to kill viruses and bacteria – $1.6m seed round just announced! www.bizjournals.com/chicago/inno...
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Hello, fellow #CovidConscious folks. I remember at some point reading that the efficacy of mRNA vaccines starts fading at 4 months, but a pharmacist denied a booster for my child today (4 months after their last one). Am I remembering that right? Does anyone have a good source?
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Everything's too much all the time, but I've got a new story out and I'm proud of it. Thanks to the crew at @redividermag.bsky.social for giving it a home: redivider.emerson.edu/revision/
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Revision – Redivider
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
UnitedHealthcare just quietly changed my insurance benefits so that my therapy costs went from $25 / week to $80 / week and my husband's went from $25 / week to $160 / week. A 4.8x cost increase. And we have "great insurance."
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If the bedroom closet doors are open before bed, my husband and I say that we’re going to close them “for feng shui reasons” and NOT because we’re afraid monsters or goblins will get out
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If I were trying to convince the world I were a brilliant coding genius, I would simply not mess up a mail merge. www.wired.com/story/dozens...
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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Everything is terrible but I have a new story out from CALYX and I'm proud of it and maybe it will give you a break from doomscrolling: www.calyxpress.org/excerpts/lan...
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Landlord by Brenna Lemieux - CALYX
Every woman is familiar with the haunting center of this short story: Did you not stand up for yourself enough or are you overreacting?
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I hate that they took the ruffles off the edges of lasagne noodles and put them on the edges of toilet paper
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As someone who learned to drive in Maryland, this seems fair
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 24/01/2025
make *them* make *you* comply; they usually can't (👇) and introducing widespread friction to these programs makes them slower and more expensive: both buying time for targeted parties, and turning these raids into terrible investments of effort, money, and energy...which even GOP voters don't want
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In today’s small wins: Today, I got three (3) white Boomer women in my family fired up and contacting their reps to express their displeasure with current administration policies. Brand-new for them. Here’s hoping it sticks and spreads.
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I remember, when I was married to my first husband, thinking: this is reality. This is life. You may not sleep in the same bed as your spouse. He may not want to see you very often. And that is your life. Because you are married to him. And how permanent that felt.
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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 02/01/2025
For any abled folks reading this who are wondering what you can do to help out I have a maybe unpopular opinion: There's a surge in flu, RSV, norovirus, and SARS-COV-2 rn Wear a mask in crowded areas, wash your hands, get vaccinated, use an air purifier... Help protect vulnerable people
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I had to update my Word and now I can't disable Copilot. There's literally not an option to turn the tools off. What a bunch of hooey. Anyone else? #amwriting
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Help I liked one post about non-alcoholic cocktails on Instagram and now ads for aDapToGEns is my entire feed
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
General shout-out to the city of Chicago, where I go around in my giant Flo Mask and people smile at me and the only ones who ever ask about it are children (with curiosity). A great place to live.
Selfie of me in a black sweater and Flo mask painted purple posing for the camera
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Someone should invent bobby pins you can find
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The idea that kids are low risk for post-COVID disability is based on error-riddled, retracted research. Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far. COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line. And you can take action! 🧵
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Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help.
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Not making friends when you move to Chicago does not mean you need to build an "IRL social app," it means you need to sign up for improv classes like the rest of us. techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/i...
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IRL social app Pie is coming to SF to make you less lonely | TechCrunch
After a robust career building Bonobos and advocating for founder mental health, Andy Dunn moved to Chicago with his family. A few years later, he came to
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Enemies with malefits?
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Brenna Lemieux @brennalemieux.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
On a crowded elevator today, everyone exhaled after one guy got off. “I feel like I just smoked a pack of cigarettes,” said the lady with spiky hair. Me? I didn’t notice. My mask blocked the smell 💅🏻
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