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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞

@rachelwissner.com
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Activist, organizer, photographer. Environmental justice advocate + drug policy reformer. Vegan. Views mine. 🏳️‍🌈 📍Manaháhtaan

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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 04/08/2026
Not to be vulgar, but death by diarrhea has to be one of the worst ways to go. And these deaths would be fully preventable had RFK Jr. not cut the cyclospora monitoring program in 2025. apnews.com/article/mich...
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Michigan reports the first 2 US deaths related to a diarrhea-causing parasite
State health officials say two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan. They are the first confirmed deaths in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 09/03/2026
I don’t care about the price of oil, I care that Iranians are being poisoned with toxic fumes. What the fuck is wrong with us?
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 12/01/2026
"Venezuela's oil is 'among the dirtiest oils [..] when it comes to global warming.'" "For Beard's home and dozens of other Black communities along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas, 'that's going to be more pollution and cancer.'" #Texas #Louisiana #USA #Venezuela #FossilFuels #Climate
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Venezuelan Oil Brought to the U.S. Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Communities
Communities in Texas and Louisiana say U.S. control of Venezuela's heavy crude will worsen "environmental racism" along the Gulf.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 08/01/2026
The fact that RFK Jr. and Trump are recommending the American public increase their meat and butter consumption is going to turn me from a friendly vegan into a militant one.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 03/12/2025
Every year people joke about not knowing when Hanukkah is. It's 25 Kislev. Hope this helps.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is the most New York Times of all the New York Times that the New York Times has ever New York Timed.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 05/11/2025
We did it!!!!! I love you New York, goodnight!
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/06/2025
Screenshot of a tweet from @krankTNelson on Twitter from April 2024 that originally said “if you're wondering why the nyc wildfires are getting more press than earthquakes that happen in california, it's because new york is more important than california and the things that happen here matter more” but is edited to say “if you're wondering why the nyc mayoral election is getting more press than elections that happen in california, it's because new york is more important than california and the things that happen here matter more”
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today 🗽💞 Honestly happy (and slightly surprised of myself) to say: I am once again proud of the neighborhood I was raised in, the Hasidic community in Williamsburg! www.williamsburg365.com/news/brookly...
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Brooklyn Leader Rabbi Moishe Indig Set to Endorse Zoran Mamdani for NYC Mayor | Williamsburg 365
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 15/09/2025
Last night I saw TV On the Radio, a band I’ve loved since high school and there were all these random Phish fans. I myself a Phish fan remembered that Phish covered Golden Age and I guess they must have gotten a chunk of their fan base into TVOTR.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 06/09/2025
When Trump renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War, I did not balk at all. Actually, my first reaction was a sigh of relief. I thought “well at least he didn’t go full Orwell and name it the Department of Peace.”
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring."
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 18/08/2025
Most vegans aren’t handwringing about indigenous farming practices, but it’s always people consuming factory farmed meat that are like “but what about indigenous people!” Dawg you are not doing indigenous practices you are going to Trader Joe’s.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 17/08/2025
I’m sorry to break this news but Jerry Garcia would have worn Crocs.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Grok has fallen
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@OjisanKaichou • 6h
@grok medically speaking, how likely is this to be actual fentanyl exposure versus the officer having a panic attack due to thinking she'd been exposed?

Grok v @grok
Medically, it's far more likely a panic attack from perceived exposure than actual fentanyl toxicity.
Experts (e.g., Dr. Ryan Marino, ACMT) confirm no verified overdoses from casual skin contact or inhalation-fentanyl doesn't absorb that way quickly. Symptoms like sudden collapse match anxiety, not opioid effects (drowsiness, slowed breathing). Narcan helps but isn't needed here.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 03/08/2025
Came on Bluesky to confirm if others felt the earthquake in New York City since I no longer can rely on our post-DOGE defunded government institutions for accurate information.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 29/07/2025
ah yes stop and frisk, which was ruled unconstitutional and thus not "perfectly legal," would have for sure prevented the nevada resident from bringing his south carolina manufactured ar-15 into manhattan and the senator from louisiana is for sure in a position to decide for the residents of nyc
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 28/07/2025
I don’t know why in the post Covid era year of our lord 2025 that people do not wear KN95 masks in festival porta potties. It makes it an actually tolerable experience.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 23/07/2025
The crazy thing about Ozzy Osbourne is that he was the Prince of Darkness and a progenitor of heavy metal but also a wholesome family man on a reality TV show where he couldn’t work a DVD player like every other boomer.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/07/2025
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
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A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/06/2025
Screenshot of a tweet from @krankTNelson on Twitter from April 2024 that originally said “if you're wondering why the nyc wildfires are getting more press than earthquakes that happen in california, it's because new york is more important than california and the things that happen here matter more” but is edited to say “if you're wondering why the nyc mayoral election is getting more press than elections that happen in california, it's because new york is more important than california and the things that happen here matter more”
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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/06/2025
Anyone who knows the history of Jews in Christian Europe AND the history of Jews in the Islamic world knows that Jews were always safer in cities governed by Muslims.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/06/2025
I’ve never been more proud to be a New Yorker than today, and if you know me you know I am already very proud to be a New Yorker.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025
So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 23/05/2025
The four main languages of NYC are English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Car Horn.
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WE ACT for Environmental Justice @weact4ej.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
❗️UPDATED❗️This is SATURDAY not Sunday!
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 19/05/2025
The carnivore diet has to be the biggest grift of the decade. A handful of attractive social media influencers w/ dubious credentials in nutrition who are very obviously paid by the meat/dairy industry or selling their own supplements convinced thousands of people that vegetables are bad for you.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/04/2025
This Holocaust Remembrance Day I am thinking of my great great uncle Shlomo, an autistic boy who was shot dead at his front door by the Nazis. Genocide is the logical conclusion of the dehumanization of disabled and neurodivergent people. Have we learned nothing?
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 25/04/2025
This Holocaust Remembrance Day I am thinking of my great great uncle Shlomo, an autistic boy who was shot dead at his front door by the Nazis. Genocide is the logical conclusion of the dehumanization of disabled and neurodivergent people. Have we learned nothing?
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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies? Yes, we can. The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 23/04/2025
Women’s health already is grossly under studied and research underfunded. This is devastating.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The women’s health initiative has followed tens of thousands of women for more than 30 years and provided invaluable information on topics like hormone replacement and cancer. Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 20/04/2025
Sorry, y'all did not follow me to hear me rant about Early Modern European history. I promise I will go back to the regular scheduled programming about public health.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 20/04/2025
Henry VIII was one of the biggest misogynists in history but nobody talks about him that way. Six wives this, Church of England that. Yeah, he divorced or beheaded four of his wives for not bearing sons! Elon Musk gets called "world's most divorced man" but that title belongs to Henry VIII.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 20/04/2025
“So you’ve completely left Twitter, huh?” Yeah I am sorry but I don’t like going on the website where the average post is a conspiracy theory about how George Soros secretly did the Holocaust or that trans people were responsible for the LA fires.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 17/04/2025
He is a leading nutrition scientist who linked ultra processed foods to diabetes and obesity.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 17/04/2025
Some of the smartest people I know are autistic. Many brilliant thinkers, writers, artists, scientists, inventors, etc were or are autistic.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 17/04/2025
Before the election I had already decided to do my master’s thesis on anti-science & public health disinformation, climate denialism, and drug war propaganda but wow has MAHA given me so much to work with.
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Cara Pelletier @scaradactyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Fully plant-based diets slash climate-heating emissions, water pollution, and land use by 75%. It reduces wildlife destruction by 66% and cuts water use by 54%. The science is conclusive: traditional meat consumption is incompatible with net-zero targets. medium.com/@herbivor...
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Meat, Methane, and Missed Targets
The UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) wants the public to cut 260g of meat per week - roughly two doner kebabs or two fry-ups - by 2040. The goal? To keep the country on track for net zero by 2050…
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Another climate change and infectious disease mashup. 😬 Infectious viral particles remain infectious when indoor CO2 is above 800 ppm. As outdoor CO2 increases, ventilating indoor spaces to keep us safe becomes harder.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 10/02/2025
MAHA preys on Americans' poor science literacy and harnesses their very real outrage about the abysmal state of public health and health care in the United States to get them to buy into pseudoscience "solutions" like the carnivore diet, anti-seed oils, anti-vax, etc.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 16/04/2025
“You’re vegan, where do you get your protein?” You’re a carnivore, where do you get your fiber?
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 16/04/2025
What is the reasoning behind the elimination of income-driven repayment plans on federal student loans? I'm pretty sure it won't save any money because the federal government would lose out on the interest capitalization on IDR loans with twenty year terms as opposed to loans with 10 year terms.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
PSA: people being annoyed that weather forecasts seem to be particularly sucking all of a sudden is a great entry point to talking about why NOAA cuts are bad ✌️
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...
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Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 10/04/2025
It’s not a coincidence that the carnivore diet and animal-based beauty products are surging in popularity as fascism rises.
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Rachel Wissner 🌿🌞 @rachelwissner.com · 10/04/2025
It’s not a coincidence that the carnivore diet and animal-based beauty products are surging in popularity as fascism rises.
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