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@JInterlandi

Editorial Board & writer-at-large . mostly on health and science. Tips, etc: jeneen.interlandi@nytimes.com

NY via NJ via Medellin
Joined August 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 5

    “Teachers are at the quiet center of this recurring national horror. They are victims and ad hoc emergency workers, often with close ties to both shooter and slain and with decades-long connections to the school itself.”

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  2. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    This is stunning. .: are you worried about AR-15s being used in so many school shootings? : Yea, it's sad. But we need to "harden" our schools. Lots of people use AR-15s for self defense. (Shorter: School shootings are the price we pay for "freedom")

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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 6

    Gun violence prevention activist Delmonte Johnson was shot to death last night in the Stony Island Park neighborhood on the South Side. We are sacrificing children’s lives in exchange for gun manufacturers’ profits.

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    Sep 6
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    Sep 6

    How officials and citizens can protect the integrity of their elections

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    Sep 6

    The House’s version of the Farm Bill (unlikely to become law) would cause 2M people to lose SNAP benefits, according to Mathematica estimates.

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  8. Sep 6

    Ok, just emailed you. Thanks!

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 6

    In a school shooting, teachers become both victims and ad hoc emergency workers, and function as anonymous public servants accustomed to placing their students’ needs above their own. And as a result, our picture of their suffering is incomplete.

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  10. Sep 6

    More despair for those of us with loved ones in or headed to nursing homes... via

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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    1. Create a self care-adjacent product, like a smoothie or a bath bomb. 2. Make it smell or taste vaguely medicinal. 3. Put “Immuno” or some variant in the title (bonus if you can work in a mention of cold/flu season). 4. Add some vague, unsubstantiated health claims. 5. Profit!

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  13. Retweeted
    Sep 6

    Everyone, not just teachers, should be reading this

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  14. Sep 6

    “Your blood sugar gets so high that your blood becomes highly acidic, your cells dehydrate, and your body stops functioning... is how Nicole Smith-Holt lost her son. Three days before his payday. Because he couldn't afford his insulin.”

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    Sep 5

    Never, EVER forget that what you are reading when you read Hunter S. Thompson is due to the women of Rolling Stone making the gibberish he sent them at three in the morning into something coherent.

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  16. Sep 6

    “It is especially sad that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi does not see that her own erstwhile battle for democratic freedoms prevailed with the help of the same free press she is now persecuting.”

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  17. Sep 6

    “Across the state, the needs of New Yorkers... are subverted by powerful interests in a culture rife with ethical rot and outright corruption. Fixing this... demands that people show up to the polls on Sept. 13 and remind Albany that it works for them.”

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  18. Sep 6

    “While Ms. Lieberman praised the school safety division for its focus on driving down unnecessary suspensions, she said there were still “pathetically low” numbers of guidance counselors and social workers in schools.”

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  19. Sep 6

    “starting a sweeping voter fraud inquiry so close to a crucial election could depress turnout, not only by naturalized immigrants who can vote legally but also by other groups who may distrust the government.”

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  20. Sep 6

    “The Voice was once a lodestar to freaks and geeks everywhere. Now the lodestar is both everywhere and nowhere.”

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  21. Sep 5

    "it does not appear that enlightenment concerning the abuses of men in power extends retroactively to women who chose to speak long ago, and were shamed and humiliated for doing so."

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