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Sarah Sloat

@sarahsloat.bsky.social
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science and culture writer and editor with words in The Guardian, NYT, Wired, The Atlantic and more www.sarahsloat.net

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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After birth, a postpartum checkup often happens about six weeks later. But those first six weeks are the period of highest risk for a new mother's mental health. It's a flawed system and women fall through the cracks. My latest, linked to the Lindsay Clancy case: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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What is the treatment for postpartum psychosis, the condition central to the Lindsay Clancy trial?
Clancy’s defense team argues she killed her three children under the condition, and should not be convicted of murder
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
wildflowers don't care where they grow 💛
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Given the ongoing politicization of disaster aid, I reported on what communities are doing to get by and what experts say we need to do to build a better future. "We are the ones who stay.” For @damemagazine.bsky.social: www.damemagazine.com/2026/08/05/r...
damemagazine.com
America’s Disaster Response Is Failing. Here’s How to Rebuild It. -
America's disaster system wasn't built for the climate crisis. Experts explain how FEMA reform, preparedness, and local partnerships can save lives.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I wouldn’t have it any other way but a zip line in front of the court house does feel like a parody of Mamdani’s NYC
a zip line in front of the NYC court house
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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Trump can roll back climate policy. But he can't roll back every single solar project, every local coalition, every community fighting for cleaner air and a more resilient future. So, that's where this story begins. @sarahsloat.bsky.social with the latest from our Repairing America series
damemagazine.com
The Climate Fight That Doesn’t Depend on Washington
Even as Trump rolls back federal climate policy, communities across America are proving that lasting climate progress starts locally—not in Washington.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Elmo doing damage control at #knicksparade
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Frustration with a lack of solutions has turned vaginal supplements into a billion-dollar industry. But this could be a boon to scientists racing to develop vetted cures. My latest: www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
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Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need
There isn’t enough research about the vaginal microbiome. But that doesn’t mean you need ‘feminine probiotics’ that companies are pushing
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
when I reported on threats to mRNA research for @damemagazine.bsky.social something that came up frequently was how scared scientists were of losing funding, precisely bc their mRNA projects were already achieving the previously unthinkable
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Filing this under "articles I wish I wrote." If you see this shared everywhere today, it's because it's good!! www.curbed.com/article/dogs...
curbed.com
Where Does a Dog Belong?
Tensions between canine lovers and other New Yorkers are boiling over.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#Journorequest: I'm looking to speak to women who use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for health questions and guidance. If you're open to chatting, please send me a message or email. Thank you! sarahsloat9@gmail.com 🧪🧠💬
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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone. @sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
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How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine
As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'd like to know what the MAHA crowd thinks of this
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#Journorequest: I'm looking to speak to women who use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for health questions and guidance. If you're open to chatting, please send me a message or email. Thank you! sarahsloat9@gmail.com 🧪🧠💬
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes
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Laura Dattaro @ldattaro.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I'm looking to get in touch with scientists in Minnesota. Best ways to reach me are here or LDattaro.73 on Signal. Thanks! #chemsky #neuroskyence
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
You can use ChatGPT for life advice—but should you? Experts told me AI guidance is much riskier than most realize. My latest for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn’t and what to look out for
It’s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance – but this doesn’t come without risks
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If you want to understand this moment in time, and all the ways unassuming tech is weaponized, you need to be reading @404media.co.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When I reported on why some Oura ring users were uncomfortable with a Palantir connection, this is the sort of behavior that's why they said any link—however distant—made them so unsettled. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
The Frightening Reason Some Women Are Ditching Their Oura Rings
“It’s not paranoid to be concerned about your data. It’s justified.”
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Longreads @longreads.com · 10/12/2025
"In the Philippines, Jollibee is an institution; in America, it’s mostly just another chicken restaurant, and may never be destined to be anything more." @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?
A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
for the "sounds like The Onion but isn't The Onion" file www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It's that time of year again: are you sick....or is your dry af apartment making you feel sick www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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Is the heating giving me a headache?
Hot, dry air from heating and decreased air circulation can make us feel under the weather. Here’s what to know
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me: www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Conservatives had a meltdown over young women going for Mamdani, Sherril, and Spanberger, calling them miserable and insane. It's no wonder polls show this group is imagining a future elsewhere, a trend that's not happening in other advanced economies. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
what's the German word for when you realize you need to go outside to get the last minutes of sunlight but then you answer a quick text then realize oh the sunlight is all gone
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ofc the Sauron Brooklyn Tower went Cuomo
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And it's like spiders at the beach Weird but fkin' beautiful onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/10/2025
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
whoa. #oura #dod slate.com/technology/2... 👀‼️♀️
slate.com
The Frightening Reason Some Women Are Ditching Their Oura Rings
“It’s not paranoid to be concerned about your data. It’s justified.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
“While the growing mutualism between tech and government strengthens, it may leave some consumers behind, particularly women concerned about surveillance and the exploitation of reproductive health data.”
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The Frightening Reason Some Women Are Ditching Their Oura Rings
“It’s not paranoid to be concerned about your data. It’s justified.”
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“I don’t think a company marketed to women and trying to help them regulate and better understand their bodies should be working with the government.” Here’s my latest on messy layers, mental calculations, and what happens when a user base feels betrayed: slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
The Frightening Reason Some Women Are Ditching Their Oura Rings
“It’s not paranoid to be concerned about your data. It’s justified.”
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I know *a lot* has happened, but remember when RFK said he could tell if a kid had "mitochondrial challenges"? I wrote about how that and metabolic syndrome became MAHA buzzwords, and what the science actually says. For @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202... 🧪
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What is metabolic syndrome – and do we really need to worry about it?
Metabolic syndrome – popularized by two architects of Maha – is a real health issue, but messaging can take a turn toward scienceploitation
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Threats to defund mRNA research are putting a substantial portion of the U.S. population at risk. How did something so promising get vilified? For @damemagazine.bsky.social, I reported on why scientists are horrified and how lies by omission make us vulnerable: www.damemagazine.com/2025/08/28/r...
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RKF Jr.’s Plot to Kill America - Dame Magazine
During a morning in late August, Jilian Melamed, a research assistant professor, was discussing exciting new data with her team. They’re working on mRNA-based therapies for autoimmune diseases. So far...
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Anyone thinking of cancelling — or has already cancelled — their Oura ring because of the DoD/Palantir partnership? If so, I would love to speak with you for a potential article! Please email sarahsloat9@gmail.com ouraring.com/blog/oura-us...
ouraring.com
ŌURA Establishes U.S. Manufacturing to Support Growing U.S. Defense Business
ŌURA is proud to partner with the U.S. Department of Defense to prioritize security and promote readiness in support of those who serve.
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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social shares her concerns in interview w/ @damemagazine.bsky.social that cuts to #mRNA research could limit the development to treat other diseases. It shrinks the pool of researchers, push them into different fields, or moves them to work in other countries. More here ⤵️
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Ending research for vaccines and therapies that don’t exist yet might sound bad but feel inconsequential for now. Then you'll have a loved one in desperate need. Here's my story on what we're losing and the researchers doing everything they can to continue the science. For @damemagazine.bsky.social:
damemagazine.com
RKF Jr.’s Plot to Kill America - Dame Magazine
During a morning in late August, Jilian Melamed, a research assistant professor, was discussing exciting new data with her team. They’re working on mRNA-based therapies for autoimmune diseases. So far...
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
One issue (of many) that should inspire you to make an issue of it: kids with brain cancer won't be able to get the novel treatments they need and have been waiting for www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
what we need now is the gonzo feature revealing "who is Margaux Blanchard" pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
feels about as appropriate as ever to resurface this article I wrote for @damemagazine.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2022/06/29/t...
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This is Your Brain Under Constant Trauma - Dame Magazine
On 9/11, E. Alison Holman was in Nigeria. She didn’t learn about the terrorist attack until she saw it on television at a home she was visiting. Holman was horrified by what she saw and asked her host...
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The more I report on aging the more I notice that many of the “aging hacks” start in one place — the thing you need to eat, the exercise you need to do, the product you need to buy — but end up at a similar conclusion: Community is the key to longevity, and the ability to stay social is paramount.
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Journo request! Are you the Type B friend? Or are you a Type A person with thoughts on your Type B friend? Are you described as Type B but don't think that matches who you really are? Then I would love to chat with you for a Guardian article! Email is sarahsloat9@gmail.com. 🧪 #journorequest
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A new hyper-focus in the wellness space is metabolic syndrome. In my latest for @theguardian.com I dig into why it's an important health issue, but it's also a fertile space for misinformation. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
theguardian.com
What is metabolic syndrome – and do we really need to worry about it?
Metabolic syndrome – popularized by two architects of Maha – is a real health issue, but messaging can take a turn toward scienceploitation
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I'm a health reporter at The Washington Post looking to talk to people who do not qualify under these narrowed criteria about why coronavirus vaccination matters to you If you're comfortable sharing your experiences for an article, please email me at fenit.nirappil@washpost.com
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My latest!
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Stein Institute for Research on Aging @healthyagingucsd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Dr. Alison Moore shares insights in @guardian on the benefits and risks of cannabis use among older adults. A must-read as we continue important conversations around aging and health. 🌿👵👴 📖 Read more: www.theguardian.com/wellness/202... #UCSDHealthyAging #Cannabis #UCSDGeriatrics
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More people aged 65+ are trying out cannabis. Here’s what to know about the risks and benefits
US adults in the age group are using cannabis to treat pain and poor sleep – and they’re a fast-growing market
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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
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OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I've been reporting a mini-series on #aging well for @theguardian.com. Takeaways: 1. We have control over the aging process 2. Aging is not a one-size-fits-all phenomenon 3. It's never too late to adopt healthy lifestyle choices 4. People who age well realize aging is a blessing and an opportunity
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Sarah Sloat @sarahsloat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
After a social media break, it seems important to reintroduce myself! I'm a journalist who often covers science 🧪, health, and technology, a wide world that lets me write about pigeons, menopause, or ancient Rome on any given day. If you're interested in my work, here's a sample: www.sarahsloat.net
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'd like to talk to federal workers with Long COVID and related chronic diseases/disabilities about how they're being impacted by the Trump administration's actions, for a story @thesicktimes.bsky.social. Sources can absolutely be anonymous. Message me on Signal at betsyladyzhets.25.
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