health & medicine writer; words @nymag @slate @msnbc @thedailybeast @vice @longreads; past:staff @inversedotcom, @anxymag; threads: @katiemacb. Librarian always
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I wrote about how a $20,000 psychedelic medicine training that promised education & healing ended with warring lawsuits, a hospitalized trainee, & multiple allegations of sexual assaults. Unpaywalled link for accessibility in reply businessinsider.com/dark-sid…
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When you're really fucking high at a party and scared but then your wasted friend finds you
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yooo we got morning announcements
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Mayor Mamdani is starting a new direct-to-camera series called "Morning Pitch," where he'll share weather, transit & tournament updates before every NY/NJ World Cup match day.
He kicks off the first talking about the Knicks: "I have just 3 words for my fellow NYers: Knicks in 5.
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There's a reason @HunterBiden's honesty about his addiction and recovery has resonated with so many people: accountability is rare but it’s also vital to recovery. Full post in reply
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Jun 11
Drinking water installations are quintessentially “objects indispensable to survival,” a category with heightened protection in international law.
Attacks directed against such installations are presumptively unlawful.
This report strongly indicates precision strikes on two.
Jun 11
NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats
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Jun 9
i’m actually stealing AI’s job (wasting resources and making up stupid shit)
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It is extremely important to the entire United States of America that tomorrow night at the Knicks game they show Trump on the big screen and everyone boos and then they immediately show Zohran on the big screen and everyone cheers. Please have this teed up @TheGarden
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Alcohol took me down hard and fast. Never let our cultural attitude about booze make you forget that it's the most destructive drug from a public health perspective. I was drinking 1/5 a day when I got sober. Barely survived a .4 BAC. Ask for help if you need it; it's out there.
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Denise- I say this to everyone. The thing that was killing me more than anything else was not the crack it was the vodka. Alcohol is the worst drug of them all. I was drinking a handle a day while smoking crack. It’s the hardest to stop and the easiest to start. It’s the only drug (outside of benzos) you can die withdrawing from. And I know why you drink. You drink because at first it works. Don’t want to feel the way you feel. Well for people like us we know the answer. But you can stop- but rarely alone. Ask for help. Get honest with someone you trust and tell them you need help. We are never alone. I see you. I hear you. The one thing we all have in common is pain. We think we are alone but we are not. I have faith in you. I really do and I don’t even know you. It’s so much better on the other side.
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was it by “drinking raw milk”
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“Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks” idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/n…
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He mastered this app in 72 hours in a way I haven’t been able to do in almost 9 years
All you can do is tip your cap
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Do I look like I’m a part of the elite oligarch class. This was taken at a super 8 motel off I95 by the way.
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Wrote about my sober, Sorkinly problematic king. Link in replyyyy
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May 12
We need a season set at a political campaign where the only real person is the comms director.
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Actually I wrote this one, but thank you for sharing it!
Hannah Zeavin in Slate got to this first, from a different angle. Worth reading alongside.
slate.com/technology/2026/05…
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May 6
Reasons to use an em dash:
1) reclaim it from the machines
2) you don't know what a semicolon is for
3) it has incredible vibes
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This is a stark explainer on how out of touch publications can come off, largely due to the decisions of editors who aren't as directly involved in news gathering or the lives of their consumers.
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@msmacb is one of my favorite journalists on any beat - she always calls a spade a spade and fwiw produced the most nuanced coverage of the Lykos MDMA-FDA rejection saga that I've read to this day.
An essential follow (to say the least) out with another must-read article:
May 6
Just going to keep stoking the fires bc, yay chaos. @Slate has an interesting response to the essay that shall not be named from @msmacb with an interesting take: slate.com/technology/2026/05…
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Just going to keep stoking the fires bc, yay chaos. @Slate has an interesting response to the essay that shall not be named from @msmacb with an interesting take: slate.com/technology/2026/05…
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“If the point was to say that gambling apps are addictive, it makes it even more unethical.” slate.trib.al/QzFDgX4
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