Reporter for @NYTimes, staff writer at @NYTmag, @MSNBC political analyst.
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Jan 21 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Today, @nytimes published my story looking at one particular group of anti-D.E.I. academics and activists, centered around a California-based think tank called the Claremont Institute. A thread on our reporting and findings. /1
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We’re now in the middle of a major backlash to the D.E.I. programs that have spread throughout academia (& business) in recent decades, especially since the BLM movement took flight. But it’s a varied and complex counter-movement, not at all limited to the political right. /2
Mar 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
“Do we have enough dead people for tonight?”
Inside how Tucker Carlson tried — and then didn’t — to quit Trump and the Big Lie, w/@jimrutenberg
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/bus…
On camera, Carlson told Trump backers — his audience — that they had been taken for fools and suckered by the American election system. Behind the scenes, new documents show, Carlson and his producers were the ones scoffing.
Dec 31, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Elise Stefanik thought Trump was a “whack job,” as she once wrote in a message obtained by The Times. After the 2018 midterms, she considered quitting Congress. What happened next is a case study – and perhaps a cautionary tale. nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/…
Our story traces the political incentives of the Trump era how they drew a promising young congresswoman into conspiracy theories and election denialism. Private texts, e-mails, and more reveal how she grappled with Trump’s rise.
Dec 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
If you're seeing a U.S. @nytimes story today, especially out of D.C., there's a good chance it was written mostly or entirely in advance of today's walkout but published today, with blanks filled in by non-union staff. Making a thread right here so there's no confusion -->
Today, I'm joining nearly 1200 of my @nytimes colleagues in walking off the job. It is one of the saddest days of my years working at this wonderful place. But in 20 *months* of contract bargaining, our friends in management simply refuse to get serious about wages.
Today, you may read blind quotes from my company, as in this @CNN story, about how the *real* problem is that bargaining sessions have too many members in them, so frank conversations can't be had between the two sides.
Nope.
This is about who gets paid. cnn.com/2022/12/07/med…
Oct 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Someone should start a @Super70sSports but for 1980s kids toys.
The friend who got this for Christmas was the most popular kid in school, hands down.
Oct 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The private-sector Medicare Advantage program, designed to “improve” Medicare and make it more efficient, is now rife with overbilling and fraud, costing taxpayers billions. @ReedAbelson & @sangerkatz report: nytimes.com/2022/10/08/ups…
“Kaiser Permanente called doctors in during lunch and after work and urged them to add additional illnesses to the medical records of patients they hadn’t seen in weeks. Doctors who found enough new diagnoses could earn bottles of Champagne, or a bonus in their paycheck.”
Oct 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Kent Kirshenbaum, another chemistry professor at N.Y.U., said he discovered cheating during online tests. When he pushed students’ grades down...he said they protested that 'they were not given grades that would allow them to get into medical school.' nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/…
One of many recent stories about higher education in which some students -- and some admins/parents -- act as though the point of college as merely the acquisition of a credential to which they are entitled, rather than actually being educated.
Sep 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Blockbuster from @BenWeiserNYT: in new book, former US Attorney under Trump details a pattern of DOJ meddling in cases to punish Democrats and Trump enemies — Cohen case, Greg Craig, John Kerry, others. nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyr…
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