Here are some of the things NYT management is resisting while increasing dividends and authorizing hundreds of millions of dollars in stock buybacks 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/02/08/bus… ⚫️ a $65,000 salary floor for our lowest-paid employees, including news assistants and security guards
⚫️ wage increases that keep our salaries competitive amid inflation and make up for three years without any raise 🧵

Though I worked with @blakehounshell, I didn’t know him as well as many of my colleagues.

I know depression, though. I know how it lies to you. Every time, even if you’ve endured it before, even if you’ve endured it a hundred times. It tells you it’s not possible to feel better. I know it so well that I got the truth tattooed on my arm. To remind me, from me. Often, in the depths of it, it doesn’t help for other people to remind you.

New from me: Fetterman's debate appearance was exciting and validating for many people with disabilities, because it's so rare for political candidates to be candid about disability. Much of the public response, however, was painful. 🧵 nytimes.com/2022/10/26/us/… I'm going to highlight some of the reporting from the piece, and some additional quotes and reporting that I wasn't able to include.

For starters, an important stat to remember in this conversation: 1/4 Americans have a disability of some kind. nytimes.com/2022/10/26/us/…

Additions to the list of Republican candidates downplaying Trump support they once emphasized: Adam Laxalt and Ted Budd, running for Senate in NV and NC, respectively. Screenshots of the changes (previously unreported, as far as I can tell) in here: nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/… At least 10 GOP candidates in competitive races have updated their websites to de-emphasize Trump endorsements and/or abortion. In addition to the ones I named, they've been identified over the past week by news orgs including NBC, CNN, WaPo, and The 19th. nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/…

Some Texans experiencing miscarriages have been unable to fill misoprostol prescriptions because "the pharmacy has said, 'We don't know whether or not you might be using this medication for the purposes of abortion,'" an OB-GYN told NPR npr.org/sections/healt… Legislative director of Texas Right to Life—a driving force behind TX abortion law—told NPR this was "an awful misunderstanding of the law," citing provisions that allow (a) removing dead fetus after miscarriage and (b) abortion to save woman's life. But— npr.org/sections/healt…

So excited to learn today — a few days late, apparently — that @JulietMacur, @pinkgrammar, @larrybuch, @dawncai624, and I won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for our Olympic gymnastics coverage apsportseditors.com/new-york-times… This goes out to all the high school classmates who made fun of my total ineptitude at all non-gymnastics sports and, when I brought up gymnastics, said "that's not a sport"

At the 2000 Olympics, Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold medal because she woke up with a cold and the Romanian team doctor gave her over-the-counter meds that contained pseudoephedrine.

Today, Kamila Valieva was allowed to compete. nytimes.com/2022/02/15/spo… Obviously, the Valieva situation isn't over. If she wins a medal, it could still be taken away. But the contrast is hard to ignore, especially given that with Raducan, the CAS decided her age and intentions didn't really matter — the rules were the rules. nytimes.com/2022/02/15/spo…

I am so tired of these predictions "I may be badly wrong"

Then why post it??? Why is it so damn important to tweet your could-be-badly-wrong speculation?

Is Spelling Bee getting harder or am I slowly forgetting the English language: a daily investigation I texted my husband because I was too lazy to get out of bed and go into the other room, and OH MY FUCKING GOD

Hello from my local vaccination center, where my needlephobic ass had a vasovagal reaction after my booster and everyone is paying a mortifying amount of attention to me no matter how many times I say this has happened to me with needles so many times and I'm REALLY fine now I really hope none of the other people here are scared about the vaccine because of this reaction that had NOTHING to do with the vaccine and everything to do with the needle

What I remember most is the look on my seventh-grade homeroom teacher's face when I said, "My dad works at 70 Broadway. Is that close to the World Trade Center?"

I was wrong. He worked at 770 Broadway. I didn't know for hours. She let me use the classroom phone to call him. He didn't answer. I left a message. Hours later, he called back and I burst into tears and asked him, "Do you know what happened?" As though he might not have.

I combed through the full text of the Texas abortion law. Here's an in-depth look at what it says. nytimes.com/article/aborti… Here are some things that stood out.

- In normal legal practice, both criminal & civil, burden of proof is on prosecution/plaintiff. Texas' law flips that. People charged with performing or aiding abortion have “burden of proving an affirmative defense.” nytimes.com/article/aborti…

I'm gonna be honest: I know despair isn't helpful, but I'm feeling it about delta. I was SO relieved to go back to the office—now I wonder if I should, even though I'm vaxed. I'm so utterly exhausted from waking up every day and having to choose between physical & mental health. I'm so tired. Before my vacation last week, I was trying to work and the doorbell rang for the millionth time and I literally threw my pen down and screamed "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT" at the doorbell. Vacation was a wonderful pause, but not a recharge. I don't feel any less burned out.

The thing about long covid is that improvement is too gradual to notice from day to day or even month to month. It's only in the past couple months that I realized, hey, I feel basically normal aside from smell/taste.

But I just realized something else. One of the last lingering effects, aside from hyposmia, was breathlessness when climbing stairs. Last fall, I literally had to brace myself against the wall to catch my breath after carrying groceries upstairs.

The pilot on my flight from NYC to Denver — for a connection to Bozeman, Montana — has just informed us that because of tornadoes in Denver, we're diverting to Omaha. 🙃 We're still on the tarmac in Omaha, and the universe has decided that what this plane really needed was a shrieking baby

Here's the thing.

Beyond the absurdity of punishing journalists for how readers might falsely judge them, sexual assault is all too common. Newsrooms are full of survivors because everywhere is full of survivors. You know survivors. You read survivors' work every day.

https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1376274971207602184

Policies like the one being weaponized against Felicia do nothing but punish survivors who make the brave and extremely difficult choice to come forward — thus adding to the litany of reasons people don't.

More than 535,000 Americans have died from covid, and millions are experiencing long-haul symptoms.

Some of them, and loved ones of those who died, are channeling their loss into political activism. My latest: nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/… Martin Addison, 44, died last April. His wife, Pamela Addison, was left to care for their 2yo daughter and infant son. She was furious when Trump told people not to worry about covid, so she wrote an op-ed, then started a Facebook group for young widows. nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/…

NEW: A deep dive on the Lincoln Project's finances and its handling of John Weaver's harassment of young men, from me, @dannyhakim, and @Jo_Becker. nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/… Some key points:

- The 4 main founders of TLP had private financial agreements that other leaders didn't know about for some time.
- Nearly 1/3 of TLP's fundraising went to a firm run by one of the founders, from which the 4 were paid (unclear how much) nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/…

21 men told me John Weaver, a Lincoln Project cofounder, sent them inappropriate messages, including explicit offers of professional help in exchange for sex. 11 of them spoke on the record — far more than I could detail in one article. w/ @dannyhakim nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/… Allegations became public this month in @amconmag and an open letter from @GarrettHerrin, one of the men Weaver messaged. My and @dannyhakim's reporting shows how widespread the harassment was — 21 men came forward within days — and how aggressive it got. nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/…

Fascinating piece about covid anosmia, touching on so many of the bizarre details I and other survivors (@TimHerrera!) have talked about among ourselves nytimes.com/2021/01/28/mag… This paragraph especially. The suddenness — I could smell normally on the morning of day 6 of my symptoms, and then that afternoon, nothing. The quote at the end — I first noticed the loss when I took a sip of gatorade and it tasted like sugar water. Sweet with no flavor.

This week marks six months since my husband and I got sick with covid. We are still very much dealing with the aftereffects. Here’s the view from half a year out. (thread, 1/x) My husband is still coughing. It’s nothing like the apocalyptic coughs we had during the acute illness, but it’s still there. He has been coughing every day for six months. It's been very, very slowly improving with the help of two inhalers. 2/x