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18 July, 2019

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18 July, 2019

Live look at the world watching the CATS trailer: https://t.co/I7Oqzndf84

18 July, 2019

RT @KQEDscience: State Regulators Move to Protect Workers From Wildfire Smoke https://t.co/75ftcDfMfk https://t.co/cR8cJ3yM9e

17 July, 2019

RT @JulieDiCaro: HBO didn't submit Gwendoline Christie for an Emmy so she submitted herself and got a nomination. Be your own biggest chee…

17 July, 2019

Wildfires and hurricanes knock chemicals loose from soil, homes, industrial-waste sites or other sources. Disasters… https://t.co/iK5im4O16l

Jess Nelson

Jess Nelson is the 2019 writing fellow for Miami New Times. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is excited to be living close to the water again after moving to Miami from New York. She studied history at UC Berkeley and investigative journalism at Columbia University.

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