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Deborah Copaken

@dcopaken.bsky.social
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CEO/Founder, Ladyparts. NYT bestselling author. Journalist. TV writer. Photographer. Worried about the end of democracy. deborahcopaken.substack.com

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"35 years ago today... I was standing in the middle of Red Square when tanks rolled down Gorky Street. I spent the next three days not sleeping, shooting photos, and watching history unfold. This is what I saw." -- Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social
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35 years ago today, August 19, 1991...
...I was standing in the middle of Red Square when tanks rolled down Gorky Street. I spent the next three days not sleeping, shooting photos, and watching history unfold. This is what I saw.
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Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great stuff from @dcopaken.bsky.social. Nina Schwalbe, public health scientist and vaccine superstar, is running for Congress open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Nina Schwalbe, public health scientist and vaccine superstar, is running for Congress
If she wins, she will be the only Democratic member of Congress with a PhD in public health. She will also wear a T-shirt on day one that says, "Impeach RFK, Jr."
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Lynn Erskine @lynnerskine.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“Speaking of transparency, yesterday, a 34-year-old Muslim American, Zohran Mamdani, won the election to be the next mayor of New York City in large part because of his truth-telling“ -- Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Reclaiming our truth
Between Zohran Mamdani's win, Lily Allen's new album, and Pentagon reporters rejecting spoon-fed propaganda, it's been a good month for saying no to lies and yes to truth and transparency.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2025
“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I am continually floored by the brilliance of both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s social media team and by the candidate himself. Please let this be a harbinger of a better, more equitable world.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I thought I knew how to vacation. Science now tells me I was just doing it all wrong. deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/you-actual...
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You (actually do) need a vacation
A recent meta-analysis found that the immediate effects of a vacation are more long-lasting and profound than previously believed. As long as you focus on two things.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This video by Progress Action Fund really hits the nail on the head. It’s both horrific and an accurate portrait of the U.S. today. youtu.be/j7SOc_8IhSY?...
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Republican Kidnappers
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
When students of history look back on these moments--a city comptroller, running for mayor, asking for a judicial warrant and getting arrested by masked thugs--it will be like us reading about Nazis only worse. Because we can all see this and know it is wrong, fascist, and horrific in real time.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Huge crowd in Sag Harbor for #nokings.
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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The average wedding in the U.S. now costs a cool $36,000. But @dcopaken.bsky.social discovered that embracing DIY elements for her daughter's wedding not only kept costs down—it brought communities together. www.thepersistent.com/how-to-diy-a...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“It's not a partisan issue. It’s not an ideological issue. So who voted for this? I personally don't remember Donald Trump's campaign promise to cut breast cancer research and to make menopause harder for American women,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Follow the money.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thank you, Seth Rogan, for taking a public stand against tyranny. And shame on the Breakthrough Prize video editors for editing out that bravery.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@harvard.edu not only stood up to Trump, it redesigned its website to highlight groundbreaking scientific work that relies on funding. For me, being deaf, research into hair regeneration was fascinating! This is how you stand up to fascism and tyranny. I'm proud of my alma mater. www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I just moved in with my partner. And his wife. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Moving vans and thwarted plans
Since leaving college, I've moved 18 times within 3 different countries. Most were forced. All were stressful. But this move, combining two families under one roof, was both different and revelatory.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here’s a mandate I can get behind: let all children born to mothers who do the hard work of carrying, birthing, nursing, and (more often than not) raising them take their mother’s surname at birth from now on. Go, Italy! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy
Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Since White House says info in the chat was not classified, seems like @JeffreyGoldberg has the all clear to lay out everything in there....
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Why bother to care about what "vibe" of tablecloth to pick for a wedding when democracy is crumbling? Because we must. Because love should always trump (ahem) hate. deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/planning-a...
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Planning a wedding during the apocalypse
Tablescapes, hellscapes, and why celebrating love in a time of hate in America is not unseemly. It's the only antidote.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some more good news: all of these young women just became doctors. It’s Match Day. They will be fanning out across the U.S. to care for patients. My daughter’s in the purple dress. She’s heading to the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine Family med residency program. Congrats to all!
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some good news. For once.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Anyone know where to get Paxlovid these days? Capsule doesn't have it. My local Brooklyn pharmacy doesn't have it. Ah, Covid. The gift that keeps on giving.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
With so little research on UTIs in women and how to prevent them, we need to be our own advocates. One male doctor told me to take a weekly bleach bath and daily Macrobid. Then he slut shamed me. We need to do better. deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/probiotics...
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Probiotics and UTI prevention
After a lifetime of UTIs that turned debilitating in menopause, I have finally landed on a several-step precautionary protocol that (knock wood) has been working.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I, um, what?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Coming soon, to a hospital near you: my daughter, Dr. Sasha Kogan. Who is the first person I call every time I'm confused about what happened in The Pitt and who just found out she matched into a family medicine residency.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
On the left, Moscow, USSR, 1991. No bread. On the right, Brooklyn, USA, 2025. No eggs.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I made many mistakes! So you don't have to! deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/12-life-le...
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12 life lessons from 59 years of mistakes
I have some thoughts. About everything I did wrong and how to fix them.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you’re one of the 69 million married women in the U.S who changed her last name, but you’re not sure where your birth certificate is, time to brush up on voter suppression aimed directly at you. Then call your congressperson and demand they vote no on H.R. 22. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Married women: now they're going after your right to vote
Did you change your name when you got married? Do you know where your birth certificate is? If the answer to the first question is yes, the second, no, the SAVE act is designed to suppress your vote.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I wake up every morning praying for this nightmare to be over. There is no bottom to this administration’s Putin boot-licking, lying, and corruption. Dante would have to add several more circles. President Zelensky, I apologize on behalf of those of us who see your courage and the truth.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have never been more ashamed of our country.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Last week, while relations between the U.S. and our European allies went up in smoke, I was on the northern coast of France, close to where thousands of American lost their lives standing up to fascism, scattering my best friend’s ashes. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Ashes to ashes
My best friend was French. Last week, we scattered her ashes on France's northern coast as 80 years of friendship between the U.S. and Europe turned to ash, too.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dying to see this. Here's the trailer: youtu.be/dcUeDa8FK_8?...
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is a brilliant exploration of what can be done by someone who intimately knows the barriers to getting it done.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Now that the words “women” and “female” can get your grant flagged, it’s up to those of us born with uteri to spread science information and research projects however we can. Here’s one. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Do SSRIs cause bone loss in menopausal women?
No one knows. Yet. But Dr. Marcella Walker is researching the topic at Columbia, and, in an era when the word 'woman' gets your NSF grant flagged, it's up to those of us with uteri to help science.
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Dr. Maya @drdrmaya.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...
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Site Index
STIs are common. Many are curable - all are preventable.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
All data from the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health has been scrubbed from the internet.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I know how much we all want to just hide in a hole for the next four years. But whether we like it or not, we're all on the front lines now. deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/first-they...
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First they came for the scientists
Clinical trials canceled; NIH gagged; NSF on pause; an abrupt silence at the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; HIV drugs denied: what is to be done?
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Everyone follow Carolyn!
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I just found this while culling files and gasped. So much of what girls and women deal with every day—be it in school, work, dating, or society—can be found in the postscript of this 1978 note written to 12-year-old me by my male classmate.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So many insane things from Orange Clown already—a deliberate firehouse of insults—but this one hit hard.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s really important to understand intimate partner violence. A consensual relationship does not give one consent to perform any sex act one’s partner doesn’t want. This is not just about Neil Gaiman. It’s about all of us. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...
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Dear Neal Gaiman: consensual ≠ consent
Being in a consensual relationship does not mean one consents to everything the other demands. Particularly in an unequal power dynamic. Related: NDAs are another form of intimate partner violence.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is helpful. And it makes me feel better about today's announcement. But I'll feel much better when I can actually google it, and it exists in the text of the constitution, and other online sources stop referring to it as a "proposed amendment" rather than just a plain old amendment.
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
5 years ago, @rutgerbregman.bsky.social took a bunch of billionaires to task at Davos for their greed. On the brink of an oligarchy this Monday, it's a good time to revisit his words. The key takeaway? "Just stop talking about philanthropy, and start talking about taxes." youtu.be/paaen3b44XY?...
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How a Historian Nailed Billionaires for Their Greed at Davos | NowThis
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Deborah Copaken @dcopaken.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This feels like Kavanaugh 2.0. only worse. A Supreme Court justice has words for weapons. A Defense Secretary has an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons.
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