The US has the sad distinction of doing “major abdominal surgery without a shred of evidence of benefit,” said Dr. Steven L. Clark, an obstetrician at Baylor. Read this remarkable story by Sarah Kliff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...

We also learned that Black paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to at least three young women who were associated with Epstein. Black wouldn’t answer @nytimes.com questions about the reasons for the payments. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

NEW: We obtained a trove of emails detailing Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black. The messages show Epstein demanding tens of millions of dollars from Black, insulting his children and advising on a settlement with a woman. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

NEW: JPMorgan, the largest US bank, enabled the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. The bank lent him money, created accounts for his victims, disregarded suspicious transactions and overruled employees who raised concerns. @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social @jsgatnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Two rebukes in as many days www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social

Powerful and terrifying investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/h...

The company donated, and the rule was delayed. Powerful article by the greats. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

One of e stranger stories ive read in weeks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Truly chilling account of the Trump administration’s deportation apparatus in Louisiana. ICE’s head, Todd Lyons, has said the agency must become: a logistics juggernaut, like Amazon or FedEx, “but with human beings.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Damning exposé into how Uber prioritizes profits over women’s safety. @nytimes.com 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Here's a taste of Epstein's photo displays. These were on a credenza in his dining room. More in the story, which I wrote with @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al.

A glimpse inside Epstein’s townhouse helps answer some of the mysteries surrounding the sex offender. He used the space as a stage to show off, and further amass, the rich and powerful. As Ehud Barak glowingly wrote, he was a collector of people. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

SOLID explainer by @pbsnewshour What is legal during ICE raids? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEp...

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Brazil’s president said that if the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol had happened in Brazil, Mr. Trump would be facing prosecution just like Mr. Bolsonaro. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

He profited from using undocumented workers. Now he’s profiting from Trump’s crackdown on undocumented workers. Powerful story. www.propublica.org/article/nath...

We also learned that Trump inscribed a book to Epstein back in 1997, saying "You are the greatest!" We're publishing that here, as well as a previously undisclosed photo of Trump with Epstein and James Brown. More in the article>> www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

New: @nytimes.com has confirmed that Trump was listed as a contributor to Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book. We are publishing a page from the book: a letter handwritten by Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times. Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know. Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

Wild story.

DeSantis has removed local officials who he doesn’t like from office …. and courts have let him. But Orange County (FL) Dem officials are not complying here:

Hotline callers were saying, “I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it.”

More than two dozen state and federal lawmakers took a 2½ hour tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday, arranged by the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). It came weeks after several Democratic state lawmakers were turned away at the gate.

Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

“No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation,” the agent said. “It’s infuriating.” The longtime ICE employee is thinking about quitting rather than having to continue “arresting gardeners.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Medicaid pays for 41% of all births. The highest share is in Louisiana, where Medicaid covers 64% of births. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

RFK & Dr. Oz want to relocate ostriches w/bird flu to Florida. They say it's an opportunity to study infected birds in a natural environment. Biosecurity, anyone? I remember when that was their stated reason for closing the top BSL4 lab studying dangerous pathogens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It. mRNA therapies hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some U.S. lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding, by Kate Zernike www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u... via @nytimes.com

No one has pieced together the full account of what the drugmaker Celgene did, how federal regulators failed to rein it in and what the story reveals about unrestrained drug pricing in America. What @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social discovered astonished even him, a longtime health care journalist.

🚨NEWS: I've obtained a list of the Medicaid cuts in the Republican reconciliation package. The big one is that they're going to raise premiums and co-pays on beneficiaries at or above the federal poverty line ($15,650 for single people, $21,150 for a couple). That's what helps pay for the tax cuts.

Interesting story in the Baltimore Banner today when you consider how firefighters backed Trump. They're getting little traction asking the WH to rethink closing the national fire academy. (this is separate from ending firefighter health/cancer programs) www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/ripp...

This is excellent and shocking. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

In the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, Judge Xinis orders the government to file a brief addressing the legal and factual bases for its invocations of privilege—specifically, state secrets and deliberative process privilege—by Monday, May 12.

A man who had been shot, a kid who was stabbed, and a woman beaten unconscious. All three were terrified to get help. Trump’s immigration crackdown is deadly. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...

Afraid of angering Trump, law firms including Gibson Dunn are backing away from representing immigrants and other pro bono clients that they'd once supported. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...

New with @jsgatnyt.bsky.social: In 2018, a therapist was accused of sexually assaulting women at Timberline Knolls, a mental health facility outside Chicago owned by Acadia Healthcare. Back then, the company said it had made changes to "assure it won't happen again." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Trump has a powerful weapon in his assault on law firms and the legal system more broadly. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”