Linde Jacobs’s mother died after a genetic mutation gradually laid waste to her brain. Now the same gene is coming for her own mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
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A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
I’ve worked with Azeen Ghorayshi for more than 10 years. Her reporting is exceptionally thoughtful, fair, searching and empathetic. These are bad-faith personal attacks.
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“If the rabbits survive beyond 90 seconds, the drug is deemed too weak to be sold to Americans, according to six cooks and two U.S. Embassy officials who monitor cartel activity.” >> How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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...
NEW: Media outlets are rushing to prepare for govt subpoenas and investigations under the Trump admin. Protective steps include:
• Switching to encrypted communications
• Conducting internal audits
• Increasing libel insurance
By me & @katierobertson.bsky.social 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...
The @nytimes.com obtained homemade videos of Thomas Crooks, the meek, nerdy young man with a “passion for cooking with my family” — who then began building bombs and nearly killed Donald Trump. @tawnell.bsky.social @virginiahughes.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as well as rabbits and chickens.
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stunning increases in homelessness released today from HUD
771,480 people experienced homelessness on a single night this past January, an 18 percent increase nationwide over 2023. Among those were 150,000 children, a 33 percent increase over 2023
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Azeen Ghorayshi built a career and a reputation on writing about sexual misconduct in astronomy and used that to pivot into destroying the lives of trans people at the NYT
There are a lot of things that are gross in journalism but the abject careerism and moral bankruptcy of the NYT reporters who jumped on the the youth gender medicine “story” is one of the more disgusting things I’ve witnessed
