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Dr. Orna Izakson

@orna.bsky.social

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Climate, polycrisis, mental health, functional medicine, 🌱🌲🌻🌼. Pro-science licensed naturopathic dr (OR/AK), herbalist, ex environmental journalist. Love 🥾and 📷 wild places. 💔 about 🌎. 1st-gen US, 🇮🇱 fam. Born 320ppm. #Angret. She/her/doctor. NDClimate.org

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · Nov 14

For the past year I’ve been gathering resources on the climate crisis and its effects on health, mental health, food and herbal medicines. Find those resources here: ndclimate.org

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#ClimateCrisis #NaturopathicClimateAlliance #ClimateMentalHealth #HerbalMedicine

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 8h

Have you tried ivermectin for that?

(JOKE)

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 8h

Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social talks with whatsisname from California. The guy with the hair?

#PortlandIsNotAWarZone

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 11h

*pawpaw

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 11h

#DoomScrollBreak.

#PoppawSeason

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 13h

A must read.

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A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 19h

If they’re my friends, they already know. The question (always) is how to reach beyond our bubbles. And how to get them to believe, I don’t know, facts and evidence?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The bird gained global fame Oct. 7, when right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted video of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stepping onto the ICE facility’s roof and staring down a handful of hecklers—and one chicken."

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

More frog memes.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

I have an elderly friend who lives basically right under the helicopters — across the river from the actual ICE site. It’s giving her panic attacks and keeping her from sleeping. (Not the noise, but the panic it engenders.)

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 1d

For the 2nd week in a row, the federal shutdown has blocked disease surveillance reporting. So Team Force of Infection again visited all 50 state websites to track COVID, flu & RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...

Outbreak Outlook: Week 2 of DIY Surveillance

State by state disease surveillance of COVID-19, influenza and RSV amid federal public health cuts

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Phytomaven @tmigratorius.bsky.social · 21h

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All reports during the shutdown will be free for everyone. Please share this post so others can find it.

Force of Infection
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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

Helmets are recommended. The rest is up to the individual. It’s going to be raining, and organizers recommend clear plastic rain ponchos.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

More over the top is coming. And people will get hurt and worse. The people who don’t believe it yet probably won’t believe it ever. Like the folks who deny COVID as they’re dying of it. Or deny measles vaccines as their child dies of measles.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

Especially now that his title is Secretary of War.

(And his boss didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize after that? Shocking.)

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty wild watching a fascist regime try and pump out propaganda in real time when the internet exists. Fascist regimes need propaganda to drive the narrative, but just watching them blatantly lie to try and take control of blue states is brazen

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

So I’m in Portland, and we knew this was coming. But what’s breathtaking is the disparity between what’s actually happening on the ground vs the … “lies” isn’t a big enough word. Saw this on the actual WH web page and it just floored me. I guess all we can do is continue to not take the bait.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 21h

Seems to me they’re mostly showing the weird — since that’s mostly what there is to see.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. Just avocado toast. (Gluten free, obvs.)

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Why hackers? Any Portlander with an Instagram account is showing what things look like here.

Here’s mine from 10 days ago.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

And I think Qatar is now the biggest foreign funder of US universities.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Yup.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Of course. But the more we demonstrate that we’re serious but ridiculously nonviolent, the harder his reaction will hit people who were on the fence.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d

Don't mess with librarians.

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

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Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

Several people asked, since it’s obviously so crazy. But as #angret, you’ll understand how thrilled I am that he replied to me!