Prasad has only been showing up at the FDA 3 days every 2 weeks. Prasad is commuting from CALIFORNIA. Notably the FDA is *paying for his travel* to and from California. In-person work for thee but not for me. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Prasad has only been showing up at the FDA 3 days every 2 weeks. Prasad is commuting from CALIFORNIA. Notably the FDA is *paying for his travel* to and from California. In-person work for thee but not for me. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
With a serious autoimmune disease!
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
very much same
just as an fyi, don’t spend a lot of time on the grizzly man Wikipedia before bed
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Oh fuck that book
Roll up those rugs! When S was potty training, we got to a point where he could do it, but only without underpants. So we went to a birthday party for his friend. It was in the park. I saw him toddle slightly up a hill and then drop a deuce out the side of his shorts.
Honestly it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
this is good maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...
Gonna fish wirh a few blue wing olive emergers later in tribute. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/s...
As more people turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and even as their therapists, a new and urgent concern is emerging at the intersection of AI and mental health: "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT psychosis."
We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...
Thanks Lizzie – back then the problem was various forms of negligence, systemic breakdowns, etc. Today the government is actively and gleefully dismantling itself even as climate change and a host of other problems get worse, somehow certain that those responsible will never face any consequences
I did
New: After a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a Florida couple in 2019, killing a 22-year-old woman, crucial data detailing how the wreck unfolded was missing, unable to be located for years. A hacker found it and Tesla said in court it had been on its own servers all along. wapo.st/46dCoQI
D’oh
Thanks, Walgreens
Oh man I’m sorry. First time is the hardest imo. I’ve had it three times and the most recent one - after having a chunk of lung removed - was surprisingly mild.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
The failures were human and governmental and manmade.
On this 20th anniversary, it’s important to remember that the effects of a storm like Katrina were not only predictable, they were predicted. Three years earlier by @mschleifstein.bsky.social and @johnmcquaid.bsky.social msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essay...
Appreciate this interview my former colleague Aymann Ismail did with CPJ's CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social about the journalists killed in Gaza and the threats journalists all over face today. slate.com/news-and-pol...
There’s an old Chris Rose column I’ve been trying to find. It was about August 29, 2006 (the first anniversary) at the Maple Leaf. About everyone dancing and sweating with a kind of end of days abandon. I was there that night. If anyone finds it, send it my way.
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
Taking my mom to the Songs in the Key of Life tour as a birthday surprise. Got 3rd row tickets on stubhub. Her jaw dropped as we walked to our seats. We got to take our chairs home - they were painted like the album cover.
I’m not sure! I’m NED now but still on meds.
I’m still on Tagrisso for another 18 months. God I’m sorry about the prednisone. Every time I’m on it I want to inhale a whole pizza.
Apparently being in the middle of fighting a wildfire is no protection from border patrol www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Like in a hygiene way?
Not for nothing, here is our show from last week on the anguish inside the cdc over the shooting and the message longtime staffers are getting from the administration slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Oh hey hey I can pull the cancer card (sorry sorry)
[stares in developmental pediatrician]
It’s a very good book! I think about the crashing tray of drinks a lot.
Scoop - SUSAN MONAREZ, nation’s newly installed CDC director, is being ousted, people familiar tell @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + me
Two children ages 8 and 10 were killed and 17 others were injured Wednesday morning after a mass shooting on the south side of Minneapolis at Annunciation Catholic School. Fourteen of the 17 injured were children and several of them are in critical condition.
I suppose you think you’re being rye
Just because you’re on the west coast doesn’t mean you get special rules
I’m sorry but the statute of limitations on ham sandwich jokes has expired. Please wait until the next failed indictment to try again. Thank you.
Good opportunity to read this @qjurecic.bsky.social piece on how the legal system is quietly resisting Trump's weaponization www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The strongest of trigger warnings for this. Please do read this excellent thread and associated article. And please speak to actual human beings for help if you feel suicidal or like you're going to harm yourself. In the UK you can call 999, or 111, walk into A&E, or call a helpline
A woman in Manhattan reported to police that an Amazon delivery man, 5'6'', exposed himself to her. Police did a face recognition search, showed her result, arrested the wrong guy, 6'2''. What did the NYPD not do? Call Amazon. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Link: www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Trump claims he is firing the Fed's first ever female African American Fed govenor, Lisa Cook, over mortgage fraud claims. This is an unprecedented action in Trump's long attack on the Fed.
Whatever happens with Cook, Trump targeting her in this fashion, in a way that most people see through, is the start of real trouble for the Fed and how it conducts policy. Fed already was leaning toward the rate cuts Trump wanted, now he's targeting key staff, will get messy.
How the sausage is made and delivered, by @clauirizarry.bsky.social.
BREAKING: @keribla.bsky.social is joining @propublica.org!!! www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
My 78 year old mom walks in the parks daily, and has for a decade. Thanks.
Then four year old hit me with: mommy, how do families with two daddies get a baby if a baby grows inside a woman? Which was a genuinely impressive question
Reuters cameraman Masri was operating the live feed when he was killed
The second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike www.reuters.com/world/middle...
It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
DRUMMOND: “.. Ultimately, this era in history is a WIRED story: The United States’ authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by the tech industry’s complicity. And that’s how we’re covering it.” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
BREAKING: National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying weapons tonight, including rifles, a Defense Department official said.
This paragraph is haunting. How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...
I’m 18 months out, and I think I’m just now dealing with the psychological part of this.
To be fair I would put this on my tombstone
Rachel’s face 😂
Oh that’s what kicked this off
Thank you to @angusrohan.bsky.social for coming on the show. Listen to the end to hear him give me some bracing news about my own cancer.
What do you and your brother talk about? Harrison Ford, mostly.
The intro for today’s episode of TBD lays out the real stakes of this administration’s decision making in a crystal clear way. (🙏 @lizzieohreally.bsky.social) Listen: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
And Lizzie didn’t even have the time to get into the controversy over mRNA vaccines and the sword of Damocles researchers feel is hanging over them www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/m...
A bit of a personal intro on today’s show. The stakes of what’s being done to cancer research right now are tangible for me. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
My husband is a theater director and I’m always obsessed with show props
A) congrats to them. B) this is why my go-to gift for kids is a magazine (like ladybug or babybug) that comes in the mail just for them.
a question for the ages (or the Feds)
I couldn't help but wonder: who made that realistic poop? slate.com/culture/2025...
and a fake snake
INBOX: Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams' longtime confidante, is being charged in FOUR new indictments alleging she took $75,000 in bribes to steer migrant shelter contracts to preferred vendors, attempt to block the McGuinness Boulevard redesign and other conspiracies.
Spent a lot of time considering this and I think the proper Bribe Chips have to be Zapps.
The Atavist has been utterly inundated with fake pitches in the last couple of months, including from this "writer." pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
From earlier this summer: how to protect your phone at the border/airport. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Today: - @katiehonan.bsky.social - Douglas Brinkley on Trump's Smithsonian attack - Arun Venugopal on NYC casino licenses - the risks of using AI for therapy - what to say to a friend going through a breakup Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org
No. Absolutely not. This art fails to capture the ~after hours~ pink polo, shorts, lazy lob of it all. Which is the whole point.
According to local electeds, the 6-Year-Old NYC Elementary Schooler and Her Mom, whose arrest last week drew widespread outrage, has been deported. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/19/e...
Serving indictments (with a side of chips) at the Table of Success hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew...
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
It used to be that these tut-tut headlines were relegated to Kathleen Parker (eg her "Calm down. Roe v. Wade isn’t going anywhere"), but now the full WashPost Editorial Board has taken on the mantle.
RFK Jr has claimed he’s increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, BUT... ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists have left or been pushed out of the CDC since January.
one of the best film reviews I've read in a while, I miss when more places published work like this. “It may shock some Americans to learn that many Chinese people, on many days, don’t even have the thought of America cross their minds,” @jennygzhang.bsky.social writes slate.com/culture/2025...
let your haters become taters in the chip bag of success
You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.
Two Big Law Firms Said to Be Doing Free Work for Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Altman says all sorts of things, all the time. But the hard pivot away from AGI/superintelligence rhetoric by Eric Schmidt is genuinely jarring, sort of funny, and I think telling nymag.com/intelligence...
Holding out hope that Ron is found. We rode out Hurricane Rita in a Red Cross shelter together 20 years ago. www.journal-isms.com/journalist-s...
I saw the new mural in Philly that exists as an "f-- you" to JD Vance, here's how it went: slate.com/life/2025/08...
Crash early this a.m. on Capitol Hill involved a 14-ton D.C. National Guard Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV) and is "currently undergoing an investigation," Capt. Tinashe T. Machona says. Civilian driver hospitalized with head laceration per @danlamothe.bsky.social
🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...
"But that one of the symbols of local resistance would be a man launching a sandwich is about as unexpected as things get. (That being said, a group of men dumping tea into a harbor did help inspire the Revolutionary War.)" @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/email/e53cf0...
She smells so bad