Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social
@MariahCBlake
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Journalist. NM transplant. 2016 Nieman fellow @Harvard. Feverishly working on a book about #ForeverChemicals #PFAS (@CrownPublishing, 2025).
Washington, DC
Joined January 2012
So, I’m officially done reviewing the copy edit of the book I’ve been working on for the last eight years. Next up, page proofs! #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Plastic
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RT @MariahCBlake: Let’s not forget that DOE’s chief function is to manage our nation’s nuclear weapons program and safeguard our nuclear st…
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Let’s not forget that DOE’s chief function is to manage our nation’s nuclear weapons program and safeguard our nuclear stockpile. How the hell is a 23-year-old apparatchik with zero security clearance being allowed to mess with its cyber security systems?
A DOE official warned the new Energy secretary against allowing 23-year-old DOGE employee Luke Farritor access to the agency’s cybersecurity systems, including the network that feeds into the National Nuclear Security Administration. Chris Wright approved access anyway.
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RT @BreezerGalway: 1/5 I've no words. This is truly devastating: '“All of the data for HIV is gone. Normally there’s a menu for medical p…
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RT @RyanAFournier: BREAKING: 1,000 EPA employees were just notified they are hereby being terminated.
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RT @EricMGarcia: Anyone at OPM or USAID wants to talk on deep background, my number is 909-957-6133
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RT @MariahCBlake: A new analysis confirms associations between early life #PFAS exposure and stunted “cognitive, motor, and language develo…
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Indeed, the study notes that these effects have been documented even at low levels of exposure, which suggests that PFAS are causing “subtle but potentially significant population-wide neurodevelopment” problems. This means that *all* of our children could potentially be affected.
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This is a great idea. The Wayback Machine is the perfect tool for preserving information that certain powerful forces would rather see erased.
A thing everyone can do to help... If you know of important government web pages w/ info you think might change, you can archive them easily with the Wayback Machine here - just paste in the URL and click “Save Page”:
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About half of all children in the United States (40 million total) are insured through Medicaid or CHIP. Did we just rob them of access to medical care?
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@arff6312 I'm so sorry. The most commonly cited estimates put the half life for PFOS at 3.5 to 5.5 years, but some sub-types/isomers have half lives of 12 years or more. See this for more information:
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“Many of us risked our lives to support the U.S. mission as interpreters, contractors, and allies,” a group of Afghan refugees wrote in an open letter to Trump. “The Taliban regard us as traitors, and returning to Afghanistan would expose us to arrest, torture, or death.”
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“It’s unconscionable to abandon them....It sends a message to our allies around the world that we're with you until it's inconvenient, or with you until our administration changes." via @nbcnews
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