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Jennifer Brokaw

@jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social

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Retired physician. Will fight health misinformation to the end. Wigging out about the coup. Gen X🤷🏻‍♀️ https://jenniferbrokaw.substack.com/

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine if enough people got vaccinated to significantly reduce spread…

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 19h

Agree!

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 1d

The NHS is charging for flu shots?! 😠

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 1d

Love my Hyundai Kona EV.
Plus maintenance is low, mostly tires (knock on wood).

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 1d

Better hurry up with that Boundless audiobook I’m listening to! 😑

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

Social media sites where people in the US get their news from:

Facebook 38%
YouTube 35%
Instagram 20%
TikTok 20%
X 12%
Reddit 9%
Nextdoor 6%
WhatsApp 5%
Threads 3%
Rumble 2%
Truth Social 2%
Bluesky 2%

Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 1d

Not too into her music, but I find her command of macho capitalism rather satisfying. Great piece! 👏🏼

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 2d

Very 😎

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 2d

Fact: Taking care of sick people isn't efficient. People die when the profit is the priority. #healthcare
hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-...

Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals

hms.harvard.edu

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 3d

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump’s America is effectively abandoning California

OPINION: “The question of whether California’s future belongs inside or outside the United States remains a choice, but it is no longer a difficult one,” Joe Mathews writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 3d

Ezra Klein’s reign as Progressive Public Intellectual Du Jour is over. C’est fini.

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 6d

The 4 or 6 forevah!

Open New York @opennewyork.org · 6d

we should let people build housing near it

Tweet via Basil @LinkofSunshine:

The Lex Avenue Line has equivalent higher daily ridership to 2/3rds of the entire population of Paris

The best subway line in the world baby

[Map of Lexington Ave subway line in Manhattan]

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 6d

I'll throw my hat in the ring as "completely unqualified off-spring of former network news big-wig"😆

Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 6d

If you live in the western United States, the first rain of the season is cause for celebration. #wildfire

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 8d

Since they’ve cut food inspections at the FDA, the burden is now more on consumers to protect ourselves from contaminated food: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

10 Really Risky Foods Right Now - Consumer Reports

In this look at 10 really risky foods right now, CR shows you how to protect yourself from food poisoning from these foods and in general.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 7d

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 7d

A good day to consider chipping in for public radio.
#npr

www.npr.org

NPR - Breaking News, Analysis, Music, Arts & Podcasts

www.npr.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.