If the headline "Nudist Camp for Sale" doesn't get you to click, what will? Quite the tale from @rondakaysen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
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If the headline "Nudist Camp for Sale" doesn't get you to click, what will? Quite the tale from @rondakaysen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
As Trump plans to deploy national guard troops in DC, citing "crime that is totally out of control," it's worth noting just how high up, or far down, a news organization includes this fact in its reporting:
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v....
More than 70K new homes could be built within a half mile of stops along the train line over the next decade, if some land-use changes are approved by city officials, according to an analysis released today by the New York Building Congress, a trade group for construction and real estate companies.
This remains an excellent campaign promise
No alternative facts on the Alex Trebek stage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
“The event was unlike anything in recent American history — not a campaign fund-raiser but a gathering arranged by the president’s business partners to directly enrich the first family.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Times staffers could roll out of bed and be at the office www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/n...
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
Come for the skyscraper, stay for the fatberg www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/n...
This kind of story is why we need the NYTimes and other institutions like it. Multiple bylines, weeks of work, deep research, important sourcing based on relationships earned over long periods, and, of course, the institutional strength and money to resist any retaliation for it.
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
The administration is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, Mahdawi, 34, saw his best friend killed by an Israeli soldier. Rather than calling for vengeance, since immigrating to the U.S., he has delivered 100+ lectures extolling empathy as key to a resolution in the Middle East. He is a practicing Buddhist, he said.
"This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with," reports @elizashapiro.bsky.social "These are the people who help make New York run, now shut out of the city’s rental market." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...
Sad to hear about the passing of Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie and many others. Gonna listen to this on repeat for a bit youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk...
The title of my email newsletter today is "Decimation": buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
Lots of fond memories from those conferences. For years I'd brag that I interviewed both Urkel and Screech
2025 version of the NYC subway map
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Some resources for those who celebrate:
www.politifact.com
www.factcheck.org
www.snopes.com
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac...
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa...
reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Dr. Francis Collins, a former director of the N.I.H., said, “If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
"As humans, we don't love uncertainty. It's something that we don't tend to tolerate well. And then when we're anxious, it's excruciating." www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
USDOT is proposing to prioritize areas with high marriage & birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
