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Author NYTimes Bestseller IMMORTAL LIFE OF #HENRIETTALACKS now an @Oprah film #HeLaMovie.Writing a book on #animals #ethics #AnimalResearch Insta @rebeccaskloot

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    Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

    I screamed & cried (literally) when I heard this news while driving through smoke with <.5 mile visibility to help my father seal his condo from the historically toxic air in Portland. It was 598 AQI in his hallway when I arrived. Worse outside (1)https://www.npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa …

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      2. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        My eyes were burning, throat hurting, headache piercing ... & I was wearing a vented N95 (under my surgical mask because Covid). Few people have access to those or air purifiers. I was out for a total of an hour and I’ve felt sick for 15 hours & counting (2)

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      3. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        So many of my most beloved places are on fire, many of them gone. I’m worried about so many people — their homes, their lungs, their hearts, their livelihoods. And so many animals. #ClimateChangeIsReal #CovidIsReal #Votepic.twitter.com/Yy4s265uCb

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      4. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        The only way I can actually photograph the color of the sky is to take pictures of the orange shadows it casts on my floor because the makers of iPhones didn’t envision anyone needing to document non-sky-colored skies #climatechangeisreal(3)pic.twitter.com/zsNh71GIIt

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      5. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        I can’t overstate how toxic this is. This is INDOORS. No living creature should ever breathe this. I’m privileged enough to have an air purifier keeping my basement air (& *only* my basement air) breathable. So many people don’t have that luxury; I think about them constantly (4)pic.twitter.com/YIshC62iCa

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      6. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        My dad lives in a condo that usually has this amazing view (5)pic.twitter.com/zRgCVtL3gN

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      7. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Yesterday that view looked like this (6) #climatechangeisrealpic.twitter.com/TEaExQmvit

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      8. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        ... And like this (7) #climatechangeisrealpic.twitter.com/TbBcpgaS69

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      9. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        And yet. The man just appointed to help lead NOAA “is affiliated with the Heartland Institute, a think tank that has poured money into convincing Americans that climate change is not happening & that the scientific evidence is uncertain or untrustworthy”https://www.npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa …

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      10. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        The scope of this tragedy is beyond what we can yet imagine. People are dead. So many missing. >1 million acres with its homes & businesses & animals & trees have burned. AND THAT IS JUST OREGON. The same is happening all over the west right this momenthttps://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/12/live-updates-oregon-northwest-wildfires/ …

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      11. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        👆🏻I’m so pissed I keep forgetting to number my posts in this thread. I think this is 9. 👇🏻

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      12. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        And yet. There are beautiful flowers, even buds, because that is how life and fire work. There are many trees somehow not falling despite tremendous winds making them bend and crack; there are rivers and coming rain that will hopefully contain the fires. (10)pic.twitter.com/nRJHDVMcHX

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      13. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        There’s a new parks pass that came yesterday via USPS (!), ordered a lifetime ago last week, when I could hike & paddle board in places now on fire. There is a wake up call for change. There are so many good people — humans who do incredible things in response to tragedy. (11)pic.twitter.com/gqBL0OL02c

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      14. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Let’s fix all of this, ok? Please? We can actually do that. (12) #ClimateChangeIsReal #ScienceIsReal #VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt #VoteLikeThePlanetDependsOnIt #AlsoCovidIsStillReal

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      15. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Also: for those who haven’t tried to breathe air with AQI anywhere near 600...First: Stepping into it felt like walking into a sandstorm—tiny sharp toxic particles smacking your face, stinging skin, eyes instantly burning as if blown with sand, but there was no wind or sand (13)

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      16. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Breathing it in I kept thinking: I imagine this is a bit of what drowning feels like. Your body reflexively pulling a substance into its lungs over & over hoping to find any bits of oxygen. Underwater there is none. In this air there is some, so you don’t suffocate. But ... (14)

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      17. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        With whatever O2 there is, you also fill your lungs with carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and a whole cocktail of other toxic, cancer causing things (which all feels like tiny shards of glass) (14)https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/science-behind-wildfire-smokes-toxicity …

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      18. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        And I was wearing *two masks* ... a ventilating N95 +a cloth mask to cover the vent (because vented masks don’t protect others from Covid). What I should have had was a respirator. Most people breathing this were just wearing thin Covid masks (0 smoke protection) or no mask (15)pic.twitter.com/fl5COmayV2

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      19. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Also, correction to tweet 2: I said it was a surgical mask. As you can see from this photo 👆🏻 it clearly has flamingos on it. Cloth flamingo masks not generally found in surgical suites. That’s just a Covid mask. LOL. (16)

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      20. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Ok, now I’m putting on my N95 & leaving my air purifier in the basement to go up to my kitchen to make coffee (current kitchen AQI: 298 which is 😱). Current outside AQI: 426. I’ll surely add more to this thread later. (17) #ClimateChangeIsReal #ButIStillNeedCoffee 😷☕️pic.twitter.com/SLNHi69ndk

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      21. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Also: @lizweil wrote this BEFORE the Oregon inferno situation started: “This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad” https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen … (18)

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      22. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Then that same @Lizweil published this just 12 days later, when everything was cataclysmicly worse (19) https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-happening-right-now-just-look-at-californias-weekend … (thank you, @lizweil also 😩)

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      23. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Thanks to all RTing & commenting. It feels like much of the world doesn’t realize how bad it is here. As for NY with Covid, Australia with fires. We are actually all in this together 🌍. It’s hard to take in more difficult stories now, I know. But it’s essential #StoriesMatter

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      24. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 13 Sep 2020

        Important addition to my description of trying to breathe this air: I’m healthy, I have no preexisting conditions; I’m not elderly or a child. My experience is nothing compared to what so many experience & the accompanying risks. Also...ouch my brain: (21)https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/diet-and-lifestyle/2018/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-and-hurts-your-brain-122618 …

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      25. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        File this under HEADLINES NO ONE SHOULD HAVE EVER HAD TO WRITE ... and yet ... I’m glad they did because there’s a lot of useful important information in here everyone should know (22) #ClimateChangeIsReal #CovidIsReal #ScienceIsRealhttps://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/14/how-to-stay-safe-wildfires-pandemic-oregon-air-quality-masks/ …

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      26. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        The West has been blanketed in toxic smoke for weeks. It’s not going away. MILLIONS are breathing historically bad air. Many/most don’t have access to N95 masks or purified air. People are going outside to work. Has Trump even acknowledged this? #VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt (23)pic.twitter.com/FNAD7ptbQk

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      27. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        What we need from the feds is a long list (which never included armed troops). Help with clean air shelters is v high on it now—Covid safe places for people to breathe if they can’t purify their homes, or don’t have homes to purify. The health costs of inaction are enormous (24)

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      28. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        I am glad to see @fema is in Oregon now helping with the fires. Hey, @Fema: Are you or any other federal agency helping to set up clean air shelters for the millions of people breathing toxic air? In Portland and all over the west? (25)https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/fema-arrives-in-oregon-to-deliver-federal-assistance-in-response-to-historic-wildfires/283-10f77420-d36b-4be0-871a-bed47611f069 …

        2 replies 4 retweets 14 likes
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      29. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        Hey folks I’m new to emergency rage tweeting. 😬 Do we rage tweeters just keep adding to 1 thread for continuity/ability to track info? Or is it better to do single rage tweets/smaller rage threads? This thread is at 26 (Plus the ones I forgot to number because I was so pissed)

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      30. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 14 Sep 2020

        Rebecca Skloot (she/her) Retweeted Dr. Lacy M. Johnson

        Yes this is right👇🏻& rage tweeting about it is now my full time job. Millions are breathing toxic air, many dead or missing, so many homes/businesses/acres burned/burning/close to fire. We need clean air shelters STAT where people can breathe clean airhttps://twitter.com/lacymjohnson/status/1305512233787707396?s=20 …

        Rebecca Skloot (she/her) added,

        Dr. Lacy M. JohnsonVerified account @lacymjohnson
        From where I sit in Houston it seems there is virtually no federal response to the massive wildfires burning all across the western half of the US. Is that right?
        3 replies 14 retweets 35 likes
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      31. Rebecca Skloot (she/her)‏Verified account @RebeccaSkloot 15 Sep 2020

        I would like to state for the record: My birthday is Sat (9/19). What I want for my birthday is to go outside and be able to breathe. Portland’s air has been off-the-charts toxic for 7 days now without sign of clearing. This is the outfit currently I wear to go to my kitchen (28)pic.twitter.com/V6sWvDnQIE

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