"New York taxpayers shelled out another $1.3 million since late May to defend former Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state police from a sexual discrimination case brought by a trooper he placed on his security detail, according to new figures released by the state comptroller’s office."

The FDA is now reexamining shots to prevent RSV -- but once again, they haven't offered any evidence for safety concerns. From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The NIH has been gutted.

Hello! I'm looking to speak with student loan borrowers about their affordability concerns and how their student debt may be impacting their holiday spending this year. Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here.

Friendly reminder that laying people off right before Christmas is among the shittiest things a company can do.

i'm available for freelance work, bio writing, consulting, anything! for now going to start writing a newsletter over on substack best way to support me right now is to subscribe! brittanyspanos.substack.com

some personal news: after 11 years i was laid off from rolling stone! kind of surreal feeling to start over but excited to see what's next 🫶

if you're not hiring Brittany to report on pop music, conduct interviews, and write deeply interesting profiles that actually rise above the noise, then you're doing it WRONG. BRITTANY IS THE BEST.

Wrote about Pazdur's (possible?) retirement here, and what it means for the agency www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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and i couldn't help but wonder, would italian-american journalists alike recover from this?

yes, also on gun and American flag metaphors

can't tell if the takeaway is that we need less writers dating and blowing up each other's lives or if we need MORE

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "For as long as we can remember, the working people of NY have been told by the wealthy & the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands.. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty."

Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech tonight: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on the politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few."

Mamdani on Cuomo: "You will hear from Cuomo about his experience as if we don't know about it. The issue is that we have all experienced your experience."

lol when asked "what is your favorite live music venue" Sliwa said "Chainsmokers!!!! EDM!" (notably, not a music venue) Mamdani said Forest Hills (the best venue) Cuomo said Under the K Bridge (he alleges he picked up his daughters there once... someone find proof ASAP pls, i refuse to believe)

Mamdani coming in hot already, calling out Cuomo in the first 5 minutes: "He is a desperate man."

ready for tonight's debate

as an italian-american and a new yorker... Cuomo repeatedly saying "disgrazia"? no, grazie!!!!!!!!!

genuinely unwell at George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani being named as "best political leaders" in this debate

Barely into this debate and Mamdani's already had this mic-drop: "Why would NYers turn back to the governor who sent seniors to their death in nursing homes? What I don't have an experience, I make up for an integrity. And what you don’t have in integrity, you can never make up for in experience.”

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

👽 🛡️ 👑 🤘🏼 ⚔️ 🥷 🚂 🏛️ 🍓 Those are emojis the FBI, NYPD, CBP and US Army have said could be signs of affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang + part of their “code language”, internal records show. “Just like tattoos, we could see folks rounded up + tortured based solely on their use of certain emojis”

The FDA reportedly plans to attribute as many as 25 child deaths to the Covid vaccine -- and other childhood shots could be targeted next. My latest: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Here's how high-profile departures and widespread layoffs at the CDC will affect our health. Tldr: "Americans should be alarmed," a former top official said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

who needs fringe extremist groups when the calls for war, retribution and violence are coming from the mainstream? my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm increasing the number of stories I am doing starting this month. I'll continue reporting on RFK Jr and all things HHS, but I really want to do more on food systems. What would you like to see covered more?

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

literal lunatics are in charge of public health right now

25 years ago, four childhood best friends wanted to be like the Spice Girls and form a girl group. With the help of a mom in the home taping scene, they made something they weren't expecting. This is the story of X-Cetra, unexpected outsider music stars: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"CDC basically imploded yesterday and now it’s truly in shambles,” said @kkjetelina.bsky.social. Also: vaccines? My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

lowkey love that this essay is essentially just: "cigs... they are so back" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Ukrainian wing of The Base, a US neo-Nazi accelerationist terrorist group, has claimed responsibility for the killing of an intelligence officer in broad daylight in Kyiv.

When Hope's health started declining, her parents and medical team turned to an investigational drug. It changed everything for the fearless and sassy 4-year-old. But that drug didn't clear FDA approval in May. What happens next -- and why is it so hard to approve drugs for ultra-rare conditions?

Jackson's dissents this season have been incredible - incl. this one, on SCOTUS granting Trump admin request to partially stay lower court's nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship cases: "The majority’s ruling... is also profoundly dangerous... With deep disillusionment, I dissent."

lol i forgot elections could be fun

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"I am extraordinarily proud of my husband," said Brad Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, during a press conference just now. "What was going on in those courtrooms is absolutely unacceptable... This is not the way people are treated in the US." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

wow did not anticipate anything being more dramatic than another new episode of Love Island US today

The Guardian US is in the lucky position of hiring for a number of roles right now, you should apply:

Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months

New @theguardian.com investigation: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents. Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

By me: The four-day historic storm that caused death and destruction across the central Mississippi valley in April was made significantly more likely and more severe by global heating caused by burning fossil fuels, new analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ice disbanded the board responsible for evaluating applications to the 287g program. Within 24 hours, agencies started joining. 100 days later, hundreds of agencies have joined, including 5 that had been previously rejected from the program. Latest from me and @oliverlaughland.bsky.social

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.