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Jen Barr
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Anthropologist, public health nerd, and editor. She/her. WASH wonk. Sometimes I write things. Not representative of my employer.
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Hi! I'm an anthropologist and public health researcher. By day, I work for the state department of PH doing policy analysis. By night, I work as an international water and sanitation consultant. My book on Indian sanitation politics comes out next year. I write, drink coffee, and have cats.
As someone who processes reg feedback, I am planning to cross stitch “not my monkeys, not my circus” to hang in my office to commemorate all the times I get feedback on statute.
I love how multicultural this menu is!
Sorry, you said the part about farmers already!
As a current Coloradan, I’ll also add that the increased funds are also going to pay for parts of the original program that there wasn’t enough money for: increasing cafeteria staff wages and paying local farmers.
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We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina.

This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.
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YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.
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Please note everyone.

What’s leaving is not just a head count. It’s millions of person-years of accumulated informal knowledge and institutional memory.

The federal government is being destroyed, not reformed.
Anyone get hella stressed getting a haircut? The combo of staring at myself in a mirror and small talking with a stranger is a lot to deal with.
All I can think about is the Weird Al song Albuquerque.
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ceej @ceej.online · Sep 29
back to work
ceej.online ceej @ceej.online · Sep 25
my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
Happy football season!
There is a paucity of good evidence suggesting that these interventions reduce substantially the risks of neuropathology that attend participation in a collision sport like American tackle football.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
Moo lickin’ her tail
Fall kitty for Caturday.
Good for you! Finding a new therapist is always nerve-wracking! (I liken it to dating, in some ways.)
That's flattering, of course! I also highly recommend Merchants of Doubt and Slow Violence as texts on a similar theme.
Love the new Maintenance Phase ep on Vani Hari, the "food babe." I used to teach her stuff to undergrads to study how science can be distorted and manipulated. (Also used the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy as a contrast for how corporates do it.)
Fed employees who left,
Thank you for your service. Truly.

Fed employees still there,
I see you. Thank you for keeping up the fight, keeping the lights on, and answering the phones.

Love,
A state employee
I've been following Zach Wahls (off and on) since he started a campaign in Boy Scouts of America to eliminate the anti-LGBTQ policies. (I was in Venture Crew, a co-ed offshoot of BSA.) So excited to see his trajectory!
5 of the people on this list are @runforsomething.net alum. The future of the Democratic Party will be defined by leaders like Chi Osse, Manny Rutinel, Mallory McMorrow, Zach Wahls, and James Talarico.
Very cool package I got to work on for the latest @wired.com politics issue w/ @makenakelly.bsky.social & Elisa Muyl (our politics fellow & CUNY grad student who really made this thing shine).

Save a tab on some of these names: www.wired.com/story/wired-...
Whatever grifty supplement his buddies are selling?
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ceej @ceej.online · Sep 22
Tums causes hurricanes. How about that
It was grotesque listening to that KF episode and I had to stop partway through. Just...the exploitation, the absolute glee with which Alex inserted himself into the narrative made me ill. (more so than what he usually does)
Thank you for getting them anyway!