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Emily
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dramaturg, theatre artist + beagle mom | NJ + NYC | she/her
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👋🏻 I’m a dramaturg who works with artists to develop new plays - a writer, producer, and arts administrator - reader, knitter, baker - and caretaker to a very cute beagle. happy to be in this new space!
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Scientists are exploring how cancer-derived cell therapies like CAR-T could reprogram immune cells and help people with autoimmune diseases like lupus.
Researchers try bold new approach in a race to better treat autoimmune diseases
There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. Today's treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don't fix what's causing it.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I’m a Zillennial, but yes 😘
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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BREAKING: Jim McGreevey and James Solomon have advanced out of a crowded field to a December runoff for Jersey City mayor. No candidate in the seven-person field received the majority of the vote in the all-party contest, which is necessary to win the seat outright.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
vacation going well so far!
📍Berlin
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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uh oh feeling that horrible "hope" other people have once described
June 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SWEATER SUNDAY 🥹🌈 #showmeyourknits #knitsky
June 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Took my dog to a pet psychic today and they told us that he is an extremist
May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.
New Jersey Transit train engineers reach tentative deal to end strike that halted NYC routes
New Jersey Transit’s train engineers have reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.
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May 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch
Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.
www.orartswatch.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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My second NEA piece in two days. Its distressing but at the same time, I feel like this attempt to control the arts is a testament to its power. And why it’s more important than ever for audiences to step up and support it playbill.com/article/nati...
National Endowment for the Arts Lets Go Of Staff, Following Dismantling of Theatre Grants
Due to Trump's plans to eliminate the NEA, a number of workers are resigning, including Greg Reiner, the NEA’s director of theatre.
playbill.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Do not come in my mentions claiming that the public isn’t engaging in widespread pandemic denialism when you’re referring to Covid in the past tense.
WHO leader says COVID-19 is "still a pandemic"
A World Health Organization leader says she is worried people are still too eager to move on from COVID
www.salon.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
these stitch stoppers are my fave purchase from our Wool Walk
April 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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they want us poor, sick and desperate
We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections

That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
got my first round edits back for a journal article I’m working on!! big leagues! I need some Passive / Active Voice Bootcamp, my muscles are soft from years with no editors 😅
April 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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In TV and film, this problem begins with actors and crew being required routinely to work 12+ hour days. Where are the unions? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#TV #film #theatre
‘One slip and I’d be lost in the flood’: shocking report reveals dangers of jobs in the arts
From dancers breaking bones to camera crews forced to take terrible risks, stage and screen jobs can be hugely hazardous, says a scathing new report. We meet workers who feel ‘disposable’ – and the gr...
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean I liked the White Lotus finale a lot… thinking about the fact that many desire every question answered and every ball caught and every reaction played out. seems to speak to a deeper cultural (spiritual?) issue of an inability to sit with the unresolved. can it be okay to not know?
April 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM