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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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my younger brother just texted me asking "Are there people in this world, without any trauma?"

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For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 8 days ago • 446 comments

my local Joann’s is closing

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snow must be crazy for dogs cause it totally changes the terrain of your play area

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There are many economic issues that impact musicians specifically. But on the question of healthcare, we are in the same boat as the more than 50 million other Americans who do gig work of any kind

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"how long did it take you to write this" is a funny question to me because the answer is honestly accurately 5 hours and 3 weeks and also my entire lifetime up until this point

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Nobody is coming to save us. People are going to die. I hope it’s not the people you care about.

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

book tours need to come to Chicago more

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are people just going into a lot of cc debt to get Beyoncé tickets

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woke up with bing bop boom boom boom bop bam the type of shit I’m on you wouldn’t understand in my head lol

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Just watched a man purchase one single munchkin at Dunkin

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Chicago: this is today, if you can make it.

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NEW: DOGE employees have been ordered to stop using Slack while the agency transitions itself to a legal regime that is not subject to FOIA and other government transparency laws www.404media.co/doge-employe...

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

I was running egregiously late for something and then it turned out they’d pushed it back so I’m actually early 🫡

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if you work at OSHA or the Department of Labor and wanna share a tip about what’s happening with a friendly labor reporter, I will protect your privacy and am ALL ears I’m on Signal (kimkelly.666) and you can email me securely at [email protected]‬

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

no money to pay artists but enough money to do this pitchfork.com/news/spotify...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

what would it be like to have shakira be your mom…

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I love our pop girlies so much

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Massive protest at Children’s National in DC. A former patient is speaking who they used in promotional to show how much they care about trans kids. Now the hospital is one of a small few nationwide complying with trumps unlawful EO to end trans care.

submitted 23 days ago • 59 comments

i was always anti "how are you" as a convo starter but like especially now??? i have no good answer and i do not want to get into it with most people lol

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

just occurred to me blue man group wears bald caps and doesn’t just exclusively employ musically inclined bald people

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wrote about the roi brainworms that plague me and that I need to get over to help build community and live life etc open.substack.com/pub/thirdthi...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

another common injustice in this world that Punxsutawney Phil gets the glory while Staten Island Chuck is objectively better at his job

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NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 23 days ago • 83 comments

didn’t know what the oven self cleaning feature did…

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

another common injustice in this world that Punxsutawney Phil gets the glory while Staten Island Chuck is objectively better at his job

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mubi running $1 for 3 months promo just as i'm trying to resolve to watch more older movies! mubi.com/en/us/showing

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“Access to the system has historically been closely held because it includes sensitive personal information about the millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds and other payments from the federal government.” (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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wrote about the roi brainworms that plague me and that I need to get over to help build community and live life etc open.substack.com/pub/thirdthi...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

So basically, what's happening here is the EXACT same thing that Musk did when he took over Twitter, and he went down into the guts and started unplugging things and pretending he knew how to make it better, except instead of accidental tweet rate limits, we'll get US debt default

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

not that children are their achievements/potential future achievements but every clip and story of a young ice skater who died in the dc plane crash shatters me

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Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless

submitted 24 days ago • 178 comments

we now have it confirmed: hospitals across the country are shutting off treatment for all trans people under 19 years of age some hospitals are still continuing care, but make no mistake: this will kill countless children and teens www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 25 days ago • 39 comments

I really like the work @thesicktimes.bsky.social is doing

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

eating cut fruit while watching glee I am desperate to summon 2013 back

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

submitted 25 days ago • 1960 comments

SO COOL that Vox Media had two rounds of layoffs in the past three months and keeps cutting our budgets and yet somehow there's $20 million for one person

submitted 25 days ago • 135 comments

It's not too late to order some free Covid tests from USPS. If RFK Jr becomes HHS, there is a good chance this program will be cut. Get your free tests while you can. special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

submitted 24 days ago • 180 comments

i wish i could know the alternate reality of what all these people who are financially successful influencers would have been doing in a diff era / parallel universe without social media

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