A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Random personal testimony from shutdown air-travel chaos: 4-hour delays in Boston, lines for rebooking desks go halfway down concourses. Complicated by severe weather in major hub ATL, flights diverted and just now coming back. The system can usually absorb weather, but not with shutdown ATC cuts.

Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.

AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...

Prefacing this with, yes, I have been a journo a really long time: ACA premiums are rolling out and causing sticker stock. People may abandon insurance. In 2006-7 I saw in a year-long project in ERs how unaffordable health insurance crippled healthcare in the US. We should not want that back again.

I am a born New Yorker and I think this is fucking great. (Watch with sound up.)

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Everyone knows that there was a “reverse Underground Railroad” too, right? That there were gangs hunting down Black people — some self-emancipated, some born free, didn’t matter — and dragging them to a slave state? That it wasn’t just Solomon Northup, it was tens of thousands of people? Because ⬇️

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

I wrote a short piece on why you should hear this fun conversation between @marynmck.bsky.social and @starrevartan.bsky.social on all things strength and Vartan's new book "The Stronger Sex" 💪

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

In the WaPo, a Brit columnist warns New Yorkers that London's economy was DESTROYED by electing a South Asian-named, left-ish mayor, so don't do that. Weirdly doesn't mention how Brexit chased away foreign investment. Nope, must have been the brown guy. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

The #ClimateEmergency and increasing #AMR - disturbing further evidence of a direct link pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Cholera is spreading fast. As for so many infectious diseases, we do have the tools to intervene… but poverty, neglect, disasters, and lack of real political buy-in perpetuate an epidemic ecosystem. @who.int @drtedros.who.int #MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Among the predictable failures of mainstream papers (I have worked at several) is a tendency to uncritically adopt, rather than interrogate, the language that people use for their actions. A structure taller than its entire 4-story neighbor and 2 times its sq footage is not a “ballroom.” Come on.

The New York Times is bothsidesing the illegal destruction of half of the White House beyond parody

Twenty-one states and D.C. have adopted vaccine recommendations that are broader than those of the federal government, according to KFF. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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I'm going to start a thread with examples of how the NYT uses euphemism to painfully avoid saying that Trump is committing blatantly unconstitutional and lawless acts. Let's start with this one... "stretched the limits of his spending powers"

It's not too late! To sign up and receive the livestream links for my conversation with @starrevartan.bsky.social at 6pm ET on Wednesday about her excellent book THE STRONGER SEX. RSVP at humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

The NYT really ought to consider hiring someone to cover healthcare who is capable of acknowledging what healthcare was like before the ACA. Don’t have to have lived it; could maybe have read a single book about it. Instead we get this offensive absurdity.

All hail the return on the Autumn King, theonion.com/mr-autumn-ma...

instead of giving us japanese bidet toilet seats they want to force us to use surveillance thrones

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America. Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought. Here is the story. A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The President of the United States has posted an AI video of himself unloading tons of raw sewage on American cities. One of the targets in the AI video is Harry Sisson.

L.A. tonight. If you don't know, horses running into crowds is a very dangerous tactics. People can be stepped on with very bad results.

A pickup truck drove into a #NoKings protest and hit a woman. “Witnesses told Massillon Independent photographer Kevin Whitlock that the motorist deliberately drove onto the grass where they were gathered, and struck the woman, who was sitting, before fleeing” www.cantonrep.com/story/news/a...

my god. (the tan rectangle is a copy of the Constitution.)

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

reposting with alt-text Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me

No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

This is beautiful.

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News. For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

Boston, ilu

A decade ago I wanted to find a way to recognize the wonderful images that researchers created -- in the lab and in the field. With some likeminded folks, we got it off the ground. It's worked out beautifully, and I'm proud of it. #SciArt news.ncsu.edu/2025/10/a-de...

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Put this on your calendar for next week! Nerd Book Club on Weds 22 October at 6pm US ET, me and @starrevartan.bsky.social talking about her great new book THE STRONGER SEX. RSVP here to get the livestream links! humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while

Hiya ID and TB people, can someone point me to guidelines for a confirmed TB exposure in a hospital setting? Search is so messed up now that I can find guidelines for active and LTBI but not exposure (shared room). Ty!

Thought processing as I settle into airplane seat: Oh that’s nice, how chill they’re playing Regency string quartets. … is that Alanis? … did Delta Air Lines license the Bridgerton soundtracks??

So srsly is there a map app functionality that I can set that will pop up warnings at a location? “Hey! You had a horrible time at this airport last time, they hide the gas stations and the shuttle is slow!”

BWI airport needs a travel warning. Between the hidden gas stations, the way off campus rental palace, and extremely *relaxed* schedule of the shuttles, it requires planning practically an extra hour of padding on arrival.