Experts are saying Americans "can't trust anything" out of the CDC. But employees tell me that's simply not true: lots of CDC workers are still at their desks doing good work, and implying they're not is both wrong and unhelpful. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

I SAID MAX BLAU

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

I wrote about Charlie Kirk’s death, mourning and conflict, Shabbat and shiva www.vox.com/politics/461... (gift link)

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

Looking forward to the day when I get to do to the Beltline parking enforcement people what they just did to me ✌️

Does RFK Jr. understand that CDC doesn't make policy? Serious question

It's not 2018 any more. Bitching about a headline that makes you mad without reading the story running directly beneath it is no longer an acceptable activity for adults to engage in. DO BETTER, ACTUAL JOURNALISTS POSTING THIS SHIT

OKAY COOL POST BUT DID YOU READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE is what I am going to die screaming

Hey clinicians: Have you ever called a CDC clinical consult line? Maybe for a patient with suspected malaria, diphtheria, botulism, parasitic disease, or ebola? I want to hear from you! (For a story, but we can talk anonymously if you prefer.) DMs are open

Maybe this is why Monarez insisted Trump himself fire her

Watching the @apnews.com feed of the CDC applause line bidding farewell to recently resigned senior leadership and struck that they're calling it a walkout. It's not a walkout.

How would Taylor Cross fix Atlanta? Many parents are bold enough to believe in equity, but not brave enough to practice it. If we all sent our kids to the public school in the neighborhood where we live, our city would be a better place for all of us. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-taylor-c...

We’re working on it. That’s all I can say for now. Subscribe to The Onion.

it wasn’t even a good sandwich

As a prospective homebuyer in Atlanta, I am really enjoying seeing all these greedy motherfuckers who wish they'd sold their houses a year ago putting them on the pre-economic-chaos MLS of their wildest fantasies and watching them just sit there for MONTHS

I’ve heard from a lot of people at CDC in the last day and a half. Not one was surprised at the attack. Gift link to my story in the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I wrote this for @theatlantic.com about the CDC shooting www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.

There’s an active shooter at a building ancross the street from the main CDC HQ in Atlanta. I just received a photo from inside a CDC office building of a window full of bulletholes.

The amount of bullshit a person has to deal with to take a Marta train anywhere in Atlanta is just wild Bullshit on bullshit on bullshit

Those little checkboxes on college applications are shit at capturing complexity. It’s a good time to read/reread this 2022 story from The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Maintain sanity thru random neighborhood fireworks display at 11pm on a monday challenge

The Atlantic excerpted my book (which comes out TOMORROW)! This is a great one for all the folks who ask "but what can we DO about private equity?"

Big day for children of narcissists

Really good advice from ⁦‪Nick Florko: Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

a few months ago, a young reader wrote to me about wanting to date but finding it hard to trust others. that general distrust is so pervasive in society today. i dug into the science of how we decide who to trust, what destroys it, and how to be a little more trusting www.vox.com/even-better/...

The second season of The Rehearsal is a work of genius

So glad for the opportunity to demystify cancer trends for National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the latest "data" RFK Jr. is using to advance bad policy. This time, he's coming for abortion. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

fish swimming by the USS Harry S. Truman

Celia is amazing and this is going to be so good!

Bat signal to @mrpepper.bsky.social

Do you have a problem at work? Most of us do! Send in a work question to our new-ish "Good Job" advice column at @slate.com docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Obviously the correct formal appellation is Papa John

ATL people, this is going to be so good! Get your tickets now now now

Stand Up for Science rallies were held in communities nationwide a month ago w/speeches by establishment figures, early career scientists, and patient advocates whose future is on the line. Is that not speaking up? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s... There is another narrative here that matters. a 🧵

lol this is unhinged and I love it

I regret to inform you all that I made the most insane pastries this weekend Handheld babkas, L to R: orange/cardamom/dulce de leche, Mexican choc, feta/olive/basil/lemon/mint

A really interesting (and dismaying) real-time thread tracking how the NYT persistently mischaracterized the nationwide protests in the US today, before finally (after many iterations) landing on phrasing that accurately reflects what went on.

A friend and I stood on the side of a busy stretch of Memorial Drive the other day next to my stalled car. A driver stopped and asked if we were OK and if we needed anything. He looked familiar. "Are you...my mailman?" I asked. He was. Shout out to Jabri and all the other good people out there ❤️

Put it in my veins www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...

One thing about me is that if I have a drink before you talk about getting cosmetic Botox in front of me, I will yell at you for getting cosmetic Botox

The Squirrel Census may be my favorite thing in the world. (Receipts: www.vox.com/climate/2413...) Don't know what it is? Peep the website (and call the 800 number): www.thesquirrelcensus.com And for guaranteed admission to heaven, throw them a few $$: www.paypal.com/paypalme/squ...

Did Jeff Goldberg even say thank you?

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Clicked this so hard