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Matthew Braunginn

A mass disabling event: The effects of long COVID don’t stop at the individual

Before getting COVID-19, you may have been a runner who could finish a marathon in your sleep, or you’re a parent who could work a full day and always find the energy to play with your child. But now, you can only run a quarter as far before you’re winded, and you don’t bounce back the next day. Now, there are some days you can’t even get through your work, let alone come home and play.

A mass disabling event: The effects of long COVID don’t stop at the individual

Before getting COVID-19, you may have been a runner who could finish a marathon in your sleep, or you’re a parent who could work a full day and always find the energy to play with your child. But now, you can only run a quarter as far before you’re winded, and you don’t bounce back the next day. Now, there are some days you can’t even get through your work, let alone come home and play.

‘Dooming another generation of Americans’: The crisis of exposure to toxic materials

The trick about conspiracy theories is they’re built from a kernel of truth. Anti-vaccine theories are a good example—a lack of trust about what our bodies are exposed to helped create fertile soil for anti-vaccine theories to grow. America’s federal government has earned its distrust, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) played its part in aiding and creating the space for conspiracy theories to flourish by failing to protect Americans from toxic materials.

The GOP’s calls to defund the FBI are not hypocritical

In the wake of the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residency, GOP leaders across the nation, along with mainstream conservative media outlets, are calling for the defunding of the FBI, political violence, civil war, and the overthrow of the U.S. government.

DEFUND THE FBI!— Rep.

The ‘savage’ of ‘civilized’ nations

The debate over how some refugees are more deserving of aid and assistance than others isn’t new, especially in contrast with narratives of Latin and Caribbean American refugees and refugees from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA); It demonstrates how humanity is not as advanced or progressed as far as it would like to believe itself to be—especially those of European descent.

Meet the Daily Kos Emerging Fellows: Matthew Braunginn

Daily Kos—and its wider engaged community—has been a place I’ve known about for some time, but have been more on the outside looking in. I am excited to be here, joining this vibrant place as part of the first cohort of Daily Kos Emerging Fellows. It is a pleasure to meet you, Daily Kos Community. I’m Matthew.