The Monica
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Nurse|scientist|geek|wino|Editor in Chief - Health Equity #tenured #Dr @mclemoremr everywhere
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My first OpEd as WHBE Board chair. "To be clear, access to health insurance is not a partisan issue – it helps people on all sides of the political spectrum. As bipartisan members of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board, we are Republicans and Democrats."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Health care and economic security of Washingtonians at risk
By Monica R. McLemore, Hiroshi Nakano and John Schapman
www.spokesman.com
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You are doing the work 😱
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I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.
mclemoremr.bsky.social
As someone who has endured active and credible death threats I’m not interested in your opinion about how I choose to protect my safety.
emayfarris.bsky.social
This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.
mclemoremr.bsky.social
Thinking of federal workers and military folx today. Respect and love for you. These were from #CBCF2025
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I’m so glad I took today off to see Superfine at the Met. Just got some seriously good work news. Omg! #Vaguebook
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Thank you @angryblacklady.bsky.social for the heads up. I wrote to them and cussed them out. #LinkedIn #TRASH
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2 of 2:

Where I'm un-usual
Don't even try to drag, a lake, for my soul
And even if you try, to track me down
I'll be un-trackable
I'll be where I won't feel alien no no"
Group: Danny Wilson
Album: Meet Danny Wilson
Track: Five Friendly Aliens
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Desert Island Album Lyrics:
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Five wasted decades of you and me
I've found my haven across the sea
Don't call me faithless, I've never been faithless
Don't call me faithless I changed my life
I won't be faithless
When I'm waiting for the ship to arrive
And take me to a place
Far out in space
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Happy Birthday and that game was wild!!!
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I can’t find words to state how deeply I love, admire and respect these folx @oneillinstitute.bsky.social @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social
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I took a pledge to serve and to protect others. I am a nurse. I believe in science.
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I give it 3 months for optics
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They were silent then and are now. I begged for help from everyone. Crickets 🤬
mclemoremr.bsky.social
Liberally Block folx who can’t read the room. IDAGF about your relatives responses to what you post. Get your peeps. YOU ignoring them is how we got here.
mclemoremr.bsky.social
Did I mention I had dinner and watched the games at the bar with Henrietta Lacks’ grandson? Mr. Alfred Lacks-Carter is currently speaking 🙏🏾
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com