I built a dashboard to explore the last 25 years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

able-bodied persons had better wake up to the (inevitable) fact that if they/we live long enough, we will be disabled; & if we live longer, we will be severely disabled. this MAGA/GOP war against "disabled" persons is actually terrifying. you may think that you are 100% healthy but, face it, you are one bloodwork or CAT-scan away from un-healthy. one hour in your life can alter it forever. have some sympathy for the disabled & what this administration is threatening before it is too late.

This illustrates the idiocy of evaluating public safety policy by contemporaneous crime rate. Conditions external to these (simplistic, limited) policy preferences have dramatically more influence on crime rate in short term. It can’t be the weather vane for what is right to do.

Powerful piece, highly recommend reading. Democrats need people like Platner if they are going to come to terms with the true nature of our country, with what we have done to people at home and abroad, and pull together the coalition needed to heal and reshape it. “A tiny minority of Americans (6%) ever serve in the military. Of these, only 40% of veterans have ever deployed to a combat zone. And of those deployed, only about 10% participated in actual ground combat. I am one of those, and so is Platner. His pathology: a combination of traumatic stress, substance abuse, impulsive decision-making in the past, and deep anger at the moral injury he sustained wearing the cloth of this nation, is something this country ought to consider when it sends its young men and women to war. The question before Maine is not whether Graham Platner is perfect. The question is whether the United States Senate, the state of Maine, and the country as a whole would benefit from having his voice in the room when decisions are made. The answer is yes…” “A democracy that insists on perfection will eventually find itself represented only by people skilled at hiding their flaws.”

My students are always surprised to learn how much of @NRA’s power came from deeply engaging its members thru the NRA Foundation. Now the foundation is trying to break away with two-thirds of the assets, tearing the once-fearsome org apart. @TheReloadSite thereload.com/wayne-lapierre…

Saying the quiet part loud: the (typically) unspoken barrier for Anglo candidates in New Mexico.

Today a person can get drunk for 1/15th of what it cost in 1950 adjusting for inflation, points out @nytopinion. Instead of addressing this, lawmakers have lowered alcohol taxes. Any wonder why we have so much substance abuse in our society? nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opini…

Allowing New Yorkers to create their own solar energy will bring down bills and emissions. It’ll expand the group of people who are personally invested in renewable energy. This is a very popular bill with ConEd support. The Gov should sign it. gothamist.com/news/new-yorke…

Would definitely make crime/safety reporting easier — but I worry about the implications when all public court records are ingested and made available frictionlessly to anyone by AI.

Great read about the AI slop we are all being fed here. 🐷 @oliverwhang21 nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…)

Focused deterrence a prosecutor providing accountability… “Collaboration,” per @ivanjbates. (And of course other truly public health measures may be unsung contributors, too: thetrace.org/2024/11/baltimo…)

Love the rebrand of this essential news operation.

Does hot-spot policing cut crime? Yes. Does @NYPDnews claim far more credit than it deserves? Absolutely. Career NYPD @jjhall_77 shows how much decline in crime is 'regression to the mean'. Crucial work for public safety literacy in @VitalCityNYC. vitalcitynyc.org/nypd-zone-s…

This story caught me off-guard: the death of the last Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly in @abqbiopark this spring. US butterfly populations crashed 22% between 2000-20. Imagine a world without these little guys. @CatrinEinhorn Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/05/21/clima…