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HELLody SchreiBOO

@melodyschreiber.com

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Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast. Email: [email protected] Signal: melodyschreiber.06 Newsletter: notadoctor.news

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · Aug 21

I have never seen federal workers and outside experts speak so forcefully about anyone in power. But RFK Jr. poses an unprecedented threat to American health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health

More than 750 health workers say Kennedy’s misinformation fuels violence and endangers lives

www.theguardian.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I didn't know you worked in Yellowknife!

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

Frankly they need to stop!

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I have one more month to be a 40 under 40 😭

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I was a closer at the coffee shop (11 pm) and realized I'd gotten my days and had a term paper due at 9 am that was like 90% of my grade. I stopped by the 7/11 for energy drinks and stayed up all night, wrote 20+ pages, and went back in to work for the morning shift

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I would also like to win awards

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

I think of this meme every time I sow (pitch a story) and then am forced to reap (actually write the thing)

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

Torn between "he publicly posted a DM?" and "he instructs the AG via DM?

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

That's part of transgender for everyone

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

Or walking, doing voice to text!

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 10h

"we took the freedom of speech away"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

"REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

Very sadly no longer living :(

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immortan jojo siwa @sal.gay · 13h

next we should give mr beast a legacy media outlet. Just to see

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

Shingles is the WORST

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

I've met many of my best IRL friends through social media

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

Kendrick

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

Also a very good question!!

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

That's good to hear! I'm wondering how much of these conversations are reviewed by experts and whether they're being referred to clinics too

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

Government shutdowns are surreal because they are certainly about politics and also they have very real repercussions for people who are struggling to provide for their families and are deeply worried about their jobs

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15h

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 15h

the risk of hallucination is just too damn high bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 16h

I have expertise in both the technical and ethical aspects of clinical AI, so one of my most frequent refrains is that we need to separately address questions of "can we?" and "should we?"

Anyway, absolutely not.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 15h

Talking to young people about HIV is so great and needed and I have CONCERNS about using A chatbots to do so bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

Meet the AI chatbot that’s talking to young South Africans about sex, HIV and self-harm - Bhekisisa

Young women are contracting HIV faster than anyone else in South Africa, with about four out of every 10 new infections coming from just this group, even though they make up only about 8% of the total...

bhekisisa.org

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 16h

Do you ever have one of those moments where you see the news and everything that's happening happening just hits you?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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