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So tired of misogyny & Nazis. NYT bestselling author, @TheAtlantic, TV writer, photographer. Latest book: LADYPARTS: A Memoir https://t.co/j4OJGVT0V5
Jan 20, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Anyone else weeping? We’re gonna a need a bigger box of tissues.
Jan 20, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
Kurson pardoned? The man who once wrote, "I come from a grudge-holding desert people" to me in an email was PARDONED? What a civics lesson. I spent hours cooperating with the @FBI during his White House background check. If an "accident" should befall me, assume foul play. Suffice it to say, what he was actually arrested for was part of an ongoing pattern of abuse, revenge, & sociopathy. All jokes aside, I am worried about my own safety. @FBI - How do you protect those who helped you but who are now totally exposed because of a presidential pardon?
Oct 6, 2020 27 tweets 8 min read
I pay more than 3x Trump's yearly taxes EVERY MONTH for COBRA ($2398 a month.) When I caught COVID in March & couldn't breathe, I was told going to the hospital in NY would kill me. I can't walk up stairs without my heart hitting 145 bpm. But sure. Don't let it dominate you. Oy. Okay. This tweet has gone viral: an apt word, but you guys have many questions, so let me answer in one place. No, @TheAtlantic doesn't pay my health insurance. I'm a contributing writer, not staff. I lost my full-time job to COVID layoffs. theatlantic.com/business/archi…
Oct 3, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Whatever anyone says about his health right now, I couldn't breathe on day 5 of my COVID infection onward. In fact, I––a non-obese, 54-year-old in otherwise good health––had to use a nebulizer for 2 months and a steroid inhaler for 5, just to breathe. His story has just begun. Then there are the long-haul issues. Mine is POTS. My sister, who was also infected, came down with post-COVID Graves disease. Dozens of friends who were sick are exhausted all the time. Can't climb stairs. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Apr 29, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Dear @NYCMayor, I am a Jew. I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I came down with COVID-19 on March 18th, two days after you hit the gym, violating your own recommendations. I pulled my son out of the @NYCSchools a week before you told us to, but got sick anyway. But that's just one part of my fury right now. You are an educated man. Surely you know that specifically signaling out Jews, historically, has been problematic to say the least. Let's take my grandfather, flung from his crib in Russia by Cossacks. They broke his tiny arm.
Mar 29, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Okay @Apple - how about releasing whatever new software update will enable our Apple watches to have built-in pulse oximeters RIGHT NOW, especially for those of us w/#Covid_19 measuring Sp02 levels at home to keep from overwhelming hospitals. Many of us are on telemedicine calls with our primary care physicians at 2 in the morning, gulping air like a fish on the shore. We need to know whether we're above 95 or not, but the oximeter app on the iPhone doesn't seem all that accurate (93 one minute, 100 the next...)